Featherweight, Greco-Roman (≤60 kilograms), Men

Japan’s Kenichiro Fumita had won World Championships at this class in both 2017 and 2019, was the favorite, and was seeded #1. His biggest challenge was expected to come from Sergey Yemelin, the 2018 World Champion who had lost in the final to Fumita at the 2019 Worlds.

Yemelin won his first match but in the quarter-finals met Cuban Luis Alberto Orta, who narrowly defeated him, 4-3, on points. Fumita had no such early troubles in making the final, where he met Orta. Orta’s previous international honors were most limited to his region, winning gold at the 2018-19 Pan American Championships and the 2018 Central American and Caribbean Games.

In Tokyo, his lack of major international competition did not hinder Orta, who comfortably handled Fumita in the final, winning on points, 5-1. Yemelin did win a bronze medal, winning his repêchage final easily over Moldovan Victor Ciobanu, by technical superiority. The other bronze went to Walihan Sailike, a Chinese wrestler of Kazakh ethnicity.