Masato Uchishiba quickly brought Japan's gold medal haul to three with an ippon victory over Jozef Krnac of Slovakia in the men's 66-kg weight category Sunday on the second day of competition at the Athens Olympics.
Atsushi Fujimoto of Japan slides home safely during Sunday's Olympic preliminary round game against Italy. Japan won 12-0 in seven innings.
But the Japanese team failed to claim another gold-double a day after Ryoko Tani defended her title and Tadahiro Nomura won an unprecedented third straight Olympic gold, as Yuki Yokosawa had to settle for silver after a defeat to China's Xian Dongmei in the women's 52-kg final.
The 23-year-old Uchishiba, competing in his first Olympics, won all of his matches through ippon and dealt the decisive blow to Krnac after 3 minutes, 14 seconds at Ano Liossia Olympic Hall.