(10 Jan 1987) SP12018708
JAPAN JUDO
Masutaro Shoriki Cup international university tournament. Japan retains 3 individual titles and finished 2nd.
Japan's flagging judo fortunes received a boost on Saturday (10/1) in a contest at the Nippon Budokan Hall, Tokyo. The host nation swept to three individual titles and finished second in the team event on the opening day of the 5th Masutaro Shoriki Cup international university judo tournament. The Soviet Union won the second consecutive title in the team competition and their overall. Japan, which has previously taken the team title on two occasions, finished runner-up behind the Soviets.
Evgeny Pechurov - the 1986 world junior 95kg champion - and European junior open champion Sergei Alekisandrovoch Kosorotov, scored wins for the Soviet team. Pechurov beat Yuji Muto by an Ippon (a full point) and Kosorotov downed Juno Konno, also by an Ippon. A total of twelve nations participated in the team event of the tournament which has drawn a record field of 122 competitors from 23 countries. The results came as a pleasant surprise for the Japanese judo officials who had been under fire because of the nation's decline on the international judo scene.
In the individual events Japan scored a measure of revenge by taking both the individual titles on offer. Toshihiko Koga caught university freshman Michael Swain of the United States with his favourite move, the Seo-Nage, to take the 71kg title and Masao Murata employed an Ippon on Vitaly Pesniak - the current European champion - to clinch the 86kg crown.
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