Japan finished the 2018 edition of the U23 World Championship in Bucharest, Romania at the top of the medal tally. Japan won 13 medals including unprecedented 9 gold medals at the last world event. Their women were the undisputed queen of the wrestling world with 5 Gold medals at the event and both Men Freestyle and Greco-Roman teams finish 4th in the team championships.

Japan Wrestling management has declared that this in the 2019 edition of the world championships in Budapest, Hungary they will try to better the record of the last edition. For the same, Japan has declared strong 30 member squad for the championships. The Under 23 World Championships starts from 28th October and will be streamed LIVE & exclusive on WrestlingTV.in

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The Japanese team is as follows.

[Men’s freestyle]
57 kg class Rikuto Arai (Nikkei Univ.)
61 kg class Rayataro Hayayama (Takudai)
65 kg class Takuma Taniyama (Takudai)
70 kg class Haruki Seno (Gold Kids)
74 kg class Jintaro Motoyama (Niktai University)
79 kg class Yumehiro Takahashi (Kyoto, Aminotaka)
86 kg class Ishiguro Ishiguro (Nihon University)
92 kg class Takumi Tanizaki (Yamanashi Gakuin Univ.)
97 kg class Yoshida Keiwan (Nihon University)
125 kg class Yasuteru Yamamoto (Self Defense Force)

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[Women]

50 kg class Kadada Rinka (Aoyama Gakuin Univ.)
53 kg class Okuno Haruna (Shigakukan Univ.)
55 kg class Igarashi Ayaki (SugakukanUniv.)

57 kg class Nanjo Hayami (Sugakukan Univ.)
59 kg class Tanaka Yumenobu (Nichitai Univ.)
62 kg class Inagaki Reika (Aichi, Shigakukan High School)
65 kg class Enomoto Misuzu (Pacific Pacific University)
68 kg class Furuichi Masako (SDF)
72 kg class Shindo Mei ((NiktaiUniversity)

76 kg class Yusho Kagami (JOC Elite Academy / Tokyo / Teikyo High School)

?[Men’s Greco-Roman]
55 kg class Shota Ogawa (Nikko NationalUniversity)

60 kg class Suzuki Daidai (Nikko National University)
63 kg class Yamada Yoshiki (Nikko National University)
67 kg class Endo Isao (Towa Engineering)
72 kg class Naoshi Kusaka (NissanUniv.)

77 kg class Isao Daiba (SDF)
82 kg class Mugi Mukai (Self Defense Force)
87 kg class Ryota Nasukawa (Kanagawa Univ.)
97 kg class Naoto Matsumoto (Waseda Univ.)
130 kg class Keita (Kokushikan Univ.)

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