CHENGDU, July 29 (Xinhua) — Japan gained 4 out of the 5 gold medals and South Korea bagged the opposite on the primary day judo competitors on the Chengdu Universiade right here on Saturday.
Japanese judoka Taiki Nakamura gained the boys’s 60kg class, defeating Tokyo Olympic silver medalist Yang Yung-Wei from Chinese Taipei.
“I made full preparation before the final, but it is a pity that I did not seize the opportunities,” Yang mentioned.
The males’s 66kg ultimate noticed a fast and overwhelming bout when Shinsei Hattori of Japan beat Radu Izvoreanu of Moldova by an ippon in a single second.
Japan’s Hikari Yoshioka and Hibiki Shiraishi have been topped within the girls’s 48kg and 52kg classes respectively.
South Korean Huh Mimi clinched the ladies’s 57kg title.