Yui Susaki and Haruna Okuno captured gold medals for the second straight year at the World Wrestling Championships on Thursday, but both 19-year-old Olympic hopefuls did it in different weight classes from last year.
In addition to Susaki's gold in the women's 50-kg class and Okuno's at 53 kg, Yukako Kawai, the younger sister of 59-kg gold medalist Risako Kawai, took silver at 62 kg. Mayu Mukaida triumphed in the 55-kg division on Tuesday, making it four women's gold for Japan in Hungary.
The women's weight classes were expanded from eight to 10 this year and there will be six in women's freestyle at the 2020 Olympics. Japan also won four women's gold at the 2017 Paris worlds but did not win any titles at this summer's Asian Games in Jakarta.