A summary of the achievements of Japanese medallists at the Paris Olympics and the most notable battles (12th day of the tournament)

On the 12th day of the competition, Kenichiro Fumita won the gold medal in the men's Greco-Roman 60kg wrestling event, Nonoka Ozaki won the bronze medal in the women's 68kg wrestling event, and Shinna Kai won the silver medal in the women's park skateboarding event.

Wrestling - Men's Greco-Roman 60kg - Kenichiro Fumita, Gold Medal

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Kenichiro Fumita, a silver medalist at the Tokyo Olympics, stepped onto the mat in Paris looking to avenge his narrow loss at the last tournament, where he fell just short of winning the gold medal.

Fumita showed his strength by winning technical superiority in the second round and quarterfinals, and in the semifinals he faced Zoraman Sharchenbekov (Kyrgyzstan), who won the World Championships twice in April this year. In the early stages of the match, he was patient, allowing his opponent to take the lead, but in the second period, Fumita turned the game around by scoring four points with his specialty, the "reverse throw." He held on to that lead and won the match 4-3.

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In the final, Wen Tian faced Cao Liguo, a Chinese player who placed third in last year's World Championships. With aggressive wrestling, Wen Tian took the lead with one point, then rotated Cao to add two more points, going into halftime with a 3-0 lead.

Although he lost one point to Cao in the second period, he added another point from a failed challenge by his opponent to make it 4-1 and win the match. This was the first time in 40 years since the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics that a Japanese athlete has won a gold medal in the Greco-Roman style.

[Match Results]

Wrestling Women's 68 kg class: Nozomi Ozaki, bronze medal

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Ozaki Nono, who was participating in the Olympic Games for the first time, faced Venezuela's Soleimian Antonieta Carabajo Hernandez in the first round. She took the lead with four points early on, and continued to score points, making it 10-0 32 seconds into the game, and won the technical priority to advance to the second round.

However, in the second round against Tokyo Olympic bronze medalist Meerim Dzhumanazarova (Kyrgyzstan), she lost points from counter attacks from behind, making the score 0-6. In the second period, she made a strong comeback and managed to tie the score, but was overtaken by Dzhumanazarova and lost 6-8. Her dream of winning the gold medal, which she had challenged in a higher weight class despite having lost in the 62kg class, was shattered here.

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However, with Jumanazarova's advancement to the finals, Ozaki was determined to play in the repechage, and with a chance of winning a medal, she was to face Delgerma Enkhsaikhan (Mongolia), ranked 2nd in the world, for a place in the third-place deciding match. Ozaki countered the tackles of Enkhsaikhan, who had a better track record, and steadily scored points to win 6-0, advancing to the third-place deciding match against Blessing Oboldudu (Nigeria), the silver medalist from the previous tournament. Ozaki attacked boldly from the first period in the third-place deciding match, taking down her opponent with her signature speedy tackle to take a 2-point lead, and in the second period she widened the gap to win 3-0. She made it to the podium in her first Olympic appearance.

Women's Skateboard Park Kaishinna Silver Medal

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Alisa True (Australia) and Sky Brown (Great Britain), who both have Japanese mothers, won gold and bronze medals, respectively, making it a three-way podium for athletes with Japanese ties.

Kai Xinna, who won the silver medal in the previous tournament, advanced to the finals in first place in the preliminaries, and successfully performed her signature moves such as the ``wall ride and nose grind'' from the first run, taking the lead with 91.98 points. However, in the third and final run, Alisa True and Sky Brown successfully performed difficult moves, causing her to temporarily drop to third place. In the final run, where failure was not an option for Kai to advance to the top, she not only successfully performed a ``nose grind'' but also a ``kickflip indy,'' in which she grabbed the board rotating in the air with her hands, but she was unable to catch up with the leader, True. She won the silver medal for the second consecutive tournament.

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Meanwhile, Sakura Yosozumi, the previous champion, who overcame a serious injury in which she tore the posterior cruciate ligament in her right knee, was unable to improve her performance and was eliminated in the preliminaries, finishing in 10th place. Hinano Kusagi, who has won the Japan Championships three times in a row using her fast skating as a weapon, finished in 8th place despite landing a difficult move, the "backside 540," which involves rotating her body one and a half times in the air, on her third run.

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