Japanese Women’s National Championships will be held in Omishima

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Japanese Women’s Elite & High School National Boxing Championships will be held in the city of Omishima in December 21-25. The relatively small city is in the Ehime Prefecture which is located in the Shikoku Island of the country which is preparing to its upcoming local Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.
The Japanese women boxers reached a few top results in the international competitions but actually they have got still three and half years to the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games to build up a team which will be able to get medals in the home event. Their young talents could be enough strong to win key competitions in the upcoming years in the Olympic era.
Following the Japanese National Sports Festival their best women boxers can compete in the Japanese Women’s Elite & High School National Boxing Championships in Omishima. The light flyweight (48kg), the flyweight (51kg) and the bantamweight (54kg) will be the highlight of the national event.
AIBA Women’s World Boxing Championships bronze medallist 21-year-old Madoka Wada defeated her main rivals such as AIBA Women’s Junior World Champion Kasumi Saeki and Aya Shinmoto in the Japanese National Sports Festival in October and planning to repeat that performance in Omishima as well. Wada is member of the national team since 2012 and in spite of her young age she is enough experienced now.
One of her main rival Kasumi Saeki is only 20 but also joined to the national team as a junior in 2011. Wada’s next top rival Guangzhou 2010 Asian Games bronze medallist Aya Shinmoto is member of the national team since 2009 and will have also chance to be delivered top performance in the National Championships.
Sana Kawano competed in the FISU University Boxing Championships in Chiang Mai, Thailand two months ago and she is planning to box in her best bantamweight (54kg) in Omishima. Tomoko Kugimiya did not find her best weight class in the recent two years but will be returning in the national event. Japan’s TV star and former national team member boxer Shizuyo Yamasaki finished her boxing career and won’t be there in Omishima.
Tsukimi Namiki is Japan’s best youth boxer who won all of her main events in the recent 16 months including the Balkan Women’s Youth Tournament in Sofia, Bulgaria. The 18-year-old super talented boxer defeated all of her local rivals in the recent years and expecting to win her weight class in Omishima.