Amature Sumo World Championship Results

[Mike Ross <MikeRoss@compuserve.com>]

Let me try the following message again....

> Here are the results posted in the Japan Forum on Compuserve....
>
> Two-time defending champion Tatsuro Takahama  threw down Eduard Grams of
> Germany on Saturday as the Japanese wrestler  captured third straight
> middleweight title in the amateur sumo world  championships.
>
>    Takahama, a fourth-year student from the Nihon University sumo club,
> won at the 115-kilograms weight category to become the first wrestler  to
> win three straight titles in the individual competition at Tokyo's  Ryogoku
> Kokugikan.
>    "I felt a lot of pressure to be a representative of Japan, but I'm
> satisfied with my sumo today," said Takahara, who is only 180  centimeters
> tall and weighs in just shy of 115 kg.
>    "I'm thinking I'd rather try to be a professional wrestler than to  join
> a company. I've become confident with myself as I have continued  to win,"
> Takahama said.
>
>    In the lightweight class for wrestlers under 85 kg, Bulgaria's
> Savetoslav Binev, winner of the European sumo championships in  September,
> became the first Bulgarian wrestler to win a world title  when he threw
> down Japan's Atsuhiro Ibata.
>    The team event and individual titles at heavyweight for wrestlers over
> 115 kg and the open division will be at stake Sunday.
>
>
> Following are the results Sunday in the  seventh Sumo World Championships
> at Tokyo's Ryogoku Kokugikan Sumo  arena (both semifinal losers are awarded
> bronze medals):
>    Heavyweight 1. Jorg Bruemmer, Germany 2. Nacanieli Qerawaqa, Fiji 3.
> Marcos Santana, Brazil; Koichi Kato, Japan
>    Open division 1. Keiji Tamiya, Japan 2. Mark Robinson, South Africa 3.
> Fred Craig, New Zealand; Jacek Jaracz, Poland
>    Team division 1. Japan 2. United States 3. Germany; Poland Saturday's
> results
>    Lightweight 1. Savetoslav Binev, Bulgaria 2. Atsuhiro Ibara, Japan 3.
> Peer Schmidt, Germany; Antenor Yuzo Sato, Brazil
>    Middleweight 1. Tatsuro Takahama, Japan 2. Eduard Grams, Germany 3.
> Petri Sarkijarvi, Finland; Aap Uspenski, Estonia
>
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