The 2013 Japan National Yo-yo Contest is over!
YoyoRecreation’s Akitoshi Tokubuchi, who was the first runner-up last year, stepped up his game and is the 2013 Japan National Champion, beating Tatsuya Fujisaka by a hefty five point margin and Hiroyuki Suzuki by over ten points!
In 2A, 2008 world champion Takuma Yamamoto beat Shu Takada and Ryo Yamashita for first place with a smooth freestyle and ended up over twenty points ahead of the second place!
The former world champion battle in 3A ended up with Minato Furuta ahead of Kentaro Kimura for first place, showing he’s ready to take back the world title later this year.
Rei Iwakura took the title in 4A ahead of Naoto Okada in another contest between world champions.
Finally, in 5A, the newer generation dominated the top placings with Takeshi Matsuura convincingly beating Sora Ishikawa and the world’s cutest player, Yoshihiro Abe, for first place.
Check the full results below:
1A
- Akitoshi Tokubuchi
- Tatsuya Fujisaka
- Hiroyuki Suzuki
- Shinya Kido
- Yusuke Ootsuka
- Iori Yamaki
- Shion Araya
- Hirotaka Akiba
- Kazuki Okada
- Shinya Azuma
- Masahiro Terada
- Izuru Hasumi
- Toya Kobayashi
- Atsunori Tanimoto
- Kento Noda
- Ryosuke Iwasawa
2A
- Takuma Yamamoto
- Shu Takada
- Ryo Yamashita
- Tomoyuki Kaneko
- Shuhei Kanai
- Ginji Miura
- Toshiaki Onuma
- Yoshihiro Matsubara
3A
- Minato Furuta
- Kentaro Kimura
- Ryosuke Ito
- Yasuki Tachibana
- Kyohei Hosono
- Mizuki Takimoto
- Takumi Yasumoto
- Hajime Miura
- Taiichiro Higashi
4A
- Rei Iwakura
- Naoto Okada
- Yohei Kagawa
- Shotaro Masuda
- Keita Kido
- Tsubasa Onishi
- Yudai Kimura
- Atsushi Takeuchi
- Shinya Muraki
- Haruaki Nishitani
5A
- Takeshi Matsuura
- Sora Ishikawa
- Yoshihiro Abe
- Sojun Miyamura
- Hideo Ishida
- Takayuki Kuriyama
- Naoya Takeuchi
- Hiroyasu Ishihara
- Junpei Shimizu
Thanks to C3yoyodesign and mrmatio for the freestyle videos!