Summer Olympics / Wrestling Aug 2, 2021
Japan's Kenichiro Fumita wins Greco-Roman 60 kg silver at Tokyo Games
Even with Fumita's defeat, Japan extended a streak of 17 consecutive tournaments of winning Olympic medals in men's wrestling.
More Sports Mar 30, 2020
Wrestler So Sakabe shares tale of struggle to get doping ban overturned
by Mai Yoshikawa
If anyone knows about the complexities of anti-doping rule violations, it's Greco-Roman wrestler So Sakabe. After overturning a positive drug test and avoiding a two-year ban from the sport, Sakabe has filed a lawsuit against two generic pharmaceutical manufacturers that he claims gave him contaminated ...
More Sports Sep 16, 2019
Shinobu Ota claims gold at non-Olympic weight during Greco-Roman worlds
Shinobu Ota won the gold medal Sunday in the men's Greco-Roman 63-kg class at the world championships, which is also a qualification event for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. Ota, a Greco-Roman 59-kg silver medalist at the Rio Games, beat Russia's Stepan Maryanyan 10-4, with the ...
Olympics / Summer Olympics / Wrestling Aug 17, 2016
Tomohiro Inoue missed out on giving Japan its second medal of the men's wrestling competition after he was beaten by Georgia's Shmagi Bolkvadze in a match for bronze in the Greco-Roman 66-kilogram category at the Rio Games on Tuesday. Inoue lost his opening match of ...
Olympics / Summer Olympics / Wrestling Aug 16, 2016
Shinobu Ota managed a silver medal but was no match against reigning world champion Ismael Borrero Molina of Cuba in the men's Greco-Roman 59-kg final at the Rio Olympics on Sunday. The 22-year-old Ota, who finished second at the 2014 Asian Championships in Astana and ...