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Cos Anijelee Sitnea 34 Part Mil Sunday, August 12. 19S4 Judo Yamashita Win Gives Japan Fourth Gold I lTN. c0 TONY BARNARD Los Angeles Times By DICK RORABACK. Times Stafl Writer Yasuhiro Yamashita. considered the world's best judo player, easily won a gold medal in the open division and with it the traditional world's championship Saturday night over Mohamed Rashwan of Egypt.

Rashwan, a burly 28-year-old businessman, received the silver. Bronze medals went to Romania's Mihai Cioc and West Germany's Arthur Schnabel. The final competition, which resulted in Japan's fourth gold of the Games, was not without suspense, however. In a carnival atmosphere in Eagles' Nest Arena at Cal State Los Angeles, the pre -tournament word was: "Last 30 seconds with Yamashita and win a kewpie doll." Lahsana Coly of Senegal, the 279-pound Japanese giant's first-round foe, missed his prize by three seconds, being slammed to the mat in a move that must have registered on the Richter scale. Next on the firing line was West Germany's Schnabel.

The clock ticked off seconds, then minutes. The large contingent of Japanese in the audience began to buzz. Fully three minutes went by before Ya-mashito finally fell on the German's back, reached around and choked him into submission. The choke-hold is part of Yama-shita's complete arsenal, but it's a weapon he uses only in emergency. As it turns out, there was an emergency.

In grappling with Schnabel, Yamashita had badly torn a calf muscle. From the Schnabel bout on, Yamashita limped heavily. The injury offered a little hope to his upcoming opponents, but not much. Also, out was the word: "Nobody goes to the mat with the Japanese," masters of the brutal grappling that ensues after a partial throw. True to the word, Yamashita shifted casually from his standing, or throwing, technique to more elemental judo.

In his semifinal round, he sparred for two minutes with French opponent Laurent del Colombo, before going on the THE MEDALISTS Judo I OPEN 1. Yasuhiro Yamashita (Japan) 2. Mohamed Rashwan (Egypt) 3. Mihai Cioe (Romania) Arthur Schnanel (West (iermany) Yamashita did a perfect belly -whopper atop the hapless Egyptian. It was over in 1:05.

All business in the ring, Yamashita finally rose and displayed a smile he had been saving for four years. Japan, after an eight-year hiatus (it boycotted the Moscow Games) had re-established dominance over its own sport. America's best hope for a medal, Dewey Mitchell of New Port Ri-chey, and a former linebacker on the Alabama football team for three years, was upset in the first round by Canada's Fred Blaney. Mitchell had fully expected to encounter attacking judo. Blaney, instead, stuck and run, and while Mitchell pursued him all over the mat, the Canadian had played cerebral judo and impressed the only people that counted the judges.

The bottom line of the day indeed, the entire tournament though, belonged to Yamashita, the superb athlete, who, in Schnable's words, "is on a level I do not fully comprehend." 999 Romania's Doina Staiculescu, the silver medalist, performs with hoop routine during finals of rhythmic gymnastics Saturday night. Rhythmic Gymnastics Canada's Fung Upsets Favorites to Win Gold By RICHARD HOFFER. Times Staff Writer KEN LUBAS Los Angeles Times China's Xu Guoqing (right) puts move on Switzerland's Clemens Jehle in open-division match Saturday at Cal State Los Angeles. the backs of two sparring partners in workouts last year. All this for the right to meet a legend.

Yamashita, again resorting to mat work, sidestepped a furious Rashwan rush in the final. Rashwan fell of his own momentum and 099 MEDALISTS MT---irir" ii i I mitted even she was surprised, although she had trained hard for these Olympics, even going to Romania for the month of February to train alongside the highly favored Staiculescu. But then she is very serious about her sport. When the U.S. Gymnastics Federation had offered a similar training opportunity in Bulgaria the year before, she seized that, too.

Fung, of Vancouver, might not have beaten her old training mate but for Staiculescu's bobbled ribbon. Fung was scoring consistently, with no score below 9.7. Staiculescu was also scoring consistently, 9.7 to 9.9, right up to her ribbon routine. Like so many other gymnasts who were baffled by strange air currents, she got entangled and was scored 9.25. Both U.S.

entries showed improved performances, scoring better in the finals than in either of the two nights of preliminaries. However, they were still way back in the pack. Valerie Zimring, of Los Angeles, scored 37.60 for a total of 56.25, placing 11th. Michelle Be-rube, of Rochester, finished the competition with 55.80 after a score of 37.70 in the finals to place 14th. Briefly, it appeared the competition was coming apart for Zimring.

Or at least her outfit was. Her leotard zipper popped during her hoop routine. "I realized it had happened halfway through, but I knew I couldn't stop. The bad thing about it is that it's a deduction if your underleo-tard or bra shows." Zimring said. "When I came off people asked me if I'd gone out there with it unzipped.

I did half my routine before it broke." Even without the boycott, even with the world's very best rhythmic gymnasts twirling their ribbons at home instead of in the Olympics, Canada's Lori Fung was a long shot. If the best weren't here, for this sport's first appearance in the Games in 28 years, there presumably were still some very good rhythmic gymnasts in attendance. A lot better than Fung, certainly. But Fung, coming out of nowhere, came on to win the individual all-around title Saturday night in UCLA's Pauley Pavilion. She scored 39.050 in the finals for a gold medal total of 57.950.

She just barely edged the favored Doina Staiculescu of Romania, who won the silver medal, and West Germany's Regina Weber, who took the bronze. Staiculescu, who had placed sixth in last year's World Championships and, as such, was the highest ranked rhythmic gymnast here, scored 18.65 for a total of 57.90, just .05 behind Fung. Weber, who had placed eighth in the World Championships, scored 18.90 for a total of 57.70. Although Fung, 21, had softened the surprise by climbing among the top three after two days of preliminaries, which accounted for one third of the final score, her gold medal is still astonishing. In the same World Championships that Eastern Europe dominated so thoroughlyBulgarians or Soviet girls took the top five spots Fung was finishing 23rd.

There were eight girls ranking above her that attended these Games. Fung, who carried a yellow toy raccoon from event to event, ad In the other pool, Rashwan was playing a different game entirely. Standing immobile, he dared his opponents to attack. He quickly disposed of Bechir Kiiari, a Tunisian, then the rugged Cioc, finally China's Xu Guoqing, a relative newcomer so strong he had broken MEDICAL I Rhythmic Gymnastics HOW THEY FINISHED 1. Lori Fung (Canada) 2.

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