Day 1 of Japan Nationais is over in Nagoya! A few of the crowd favorites did not make it, but there are plenty of big names competing for the national title!
In 1A, the favorite is no doubt the current world champion Hiroyuki Suzuki, but team C3’s newest addition, former world champion Shinya Kido, and former national champions Tatsuya Fujisaka and Ryosuke Iwasawa won’t make Mickey’s life easy.
2A also sees the current world champion, Shu Takada, facing a former world title holder, Takuma Yamamoto, and a former national champion, Ryo Yamashita.
More former world champions will battle it out in the incredibly strong 3A division, with Kentaro Kimura facing Minato Furuta.
Even more world champions face off in the 4A division. 2012 world champion Rei Iwakura will have a tough time ahead competing against Naoto Okada and Tsubasa Onishi.
Finally in the 5A division, you got it: another world champion! Takeshi Matsuura is the sole world title holder and by far the favorite in this division.
This the order of the final freestyles:
1A
- Kento Noda
- Toya Kobayashi
- Atsunori Tanimoto
- Shion Araya
- Hiroyuki Suzuki
- Izuru Hasumi
- Shinya Azuma
- Masahiro Terada
- Kazuki Okada
- Yusuke Otsuka
- Hirotaka Akiba
- Ryosuke Iwasawa
- Iori Yamaki
- Shinya Kido
- Tatsuya Fujisaka
- Akitoshi Tokubuchi
2A
- Yoshihiro Matsubara
- Toshiaki Onuma
- Ginji Miura
- Shu Takada
- Shuhei Kanai
- Tomoyuki Kaneko
- Ryo Yamashita
- Takuma Yamamoto
3A
- Kentaro Kimura
- Hajime Miura
- Takumi Yasumoto
- Kyohei Hosono
- Taiichiro Higashi
- Ryosuke Ito
- Yasuki Tachibana
- Mizuki Takimoto
- Minato Furuta
4A
- Tsubasa Onishi
- Keita Kido
- Haruaki Nishitani
- Shinya Muraki
- Yudai Kimura
- Shotaro Masuda
- Yohei Kagawa
- Atsushi Takeuchi
- Rei Iwakura
- Naoto Okada
5A
- Junpei Shimizu
- Sojun Miyamura
- Takeshi Matsuura
- Yoshihiro Abe
- Hiroyasu Ishihara
- Naoya Takeuchi
- Sora Ishikawa
- Hideo Ishida
- Takayuki Kuriyama