Tokyo: Judoka Naohisa Takato won the first Japanese Olympic gold medal on Saturday with a victory in the men’s 60kg final in Iconic Nippon Budokan.
The 28-year-old child redeemed a disappointing bronze medal in Rio five years ago by bringing the host nation and running in a match with a victory over Yung-Wei.
Previously, the Japanese world number three Funa Tonaki suffered a painful defeat by Distria Krasniqi Kosovo in the women’s 48kg final.
But the conmphasm was the first match medal in his country.
Takato, world champion three times, the better a tense meeting with which, won three minutes and 40 seconds into the gold score.
Those who were called for the third Shido (penalty) to give Takato, who lost in the quarter-finals, victory.
However, Japan suffered disappointment elsewhere on the opening day, with great Kohei Uchimura campaign gymnastics coming to the beginning.
The champion all the time all the time slipped in the qualification for the horizontal bar competition, after struggling with a shoulder injury to fit the game.
Daiya Seto world champion also failed to reach the 400 meter medley men in the pool, even though he still had two more events to come to make amends.
Japan originally set a target of 30 gold medals for the Olympic house, but it was dropped after the match was postponed by one year because of the Pandemic Coronavirus.
Most gold won by Japan in one Olympics was 16, achieved in Tokyo in 1964 and Athens 17 years ago.
Judoka Takato won the first gold of the Tokyo Japanese Olympics
