Chiba was the big winner in the bowling competition of the 70th Japanese National Sports Festival as the prefecture led both, the overall point list and the female point list Big House Super Lane in Iwate-Ken, Japan, Oct. 5-10.

The players from Chiba accumulated 139 points in all division, men, women, boys and girls, to beat out Kanagawa (80) and Hokkaido (67) for the top spot in the overall ranking.

Pictured above is overall point leader Team Chiba.

Chiba also finished atop the female point ranking, women and girls, with 68 points, far ahead of Hokkaido (46) and Osaka (45) who finished in second and third place, respectively.

Yuta Ishikawa (left) of Gunma out averaged his nearest competitor by more than 10 pins to cruise to the title in Men’s Singles with 2082 pinfall total and an average of 231.33. Kimie Takebe (right) of Osaka captured the title in Women’s Singles with 1890, an average of 210. Four-time defending singles champion Misaki Mukotani of Chiba finished in third place with 1840.

The individual titles for juveniles (15 to 17 years of age) went to Hideaki Hata of Kanagawa and Reina Urakawa of Tottori. Hata toppled 2001 pins (222.33 avg.) to win the boys’ division, while Urakawa led the girls’ division with 1920 (213.33), 132 pins ahead of defending champion Rena Obayashi of Okayama, who was second with distant 1788.

The National Sports Festival is Japan’s largest annual multi-sports event. Every year a different prefectures (Ken) – one after the other – hosts and organizes all the sports competitions in cooperation with each sport’s national governing body.

The Japan Sports Association and the Ministry of Education, Culture, Science, Sports and Technology are co-organizers of the events.

The Japan Bowling Congress (JBC) serves as organizer of the bowling competition which features Singles, Doubles and Team event in all four divisions: adult men and women (18 years and over) and juvenile boys and girls (15-17 years of age).

In each sport, points were awarded to the prefectures based on their players’ positions. The points from all sports were tabulated and the Emperor’s Cup was awarded to the prefecture which got the most overall points from all divisions while the Empress’ Cup was awarded to the prefecture with most points in the female division only.

Points for Emperor’s and Empress’ Cup in the bowling competition:
Singles: 1st place – 8 points, 2nd place – 7, … and 8th place – 1 point.
Doubles/Team: 1st place – 24 points, 2nd place – 21, … and 8th place – 3 points.

At the conclusion of the 2016 Festival, Tokyo received both trophies, the Emperor’s and the Empress’ Cup. It marks the fourth consecutive year that the Empress’ Cup went to Tokyo.

Courtesy of Masahiko Kosugi, Japan Bowling Congress.

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71st National Sports Festival – Four-Player Team Results

Prefectures with position, players and 24-game total

Men
1. Yamaguchi (Shigeaki Tashiro, Tatsuya Sugiyama, Takashi Mukamoto, Fumitaka Miyano), 5030
2. Hiroshima (Kaisei Morimoto, So Hoshikawa, Takanori Nakashio, Yasuo Nabae), 4986
3. Kanagawa (Tomoyuki Sasaki, Kenya Suzuki, Yuta Saito, Koichi Kawada), 4959
4. Kumamoto (Kazuhiro Murakami, Yoshihiko Ogata, Takashi Nakagawa, Takao Yoshimoto), 4928
5. Saitama (Ryota Yakuwa, Takanori Nishimaki, Masashi Akaimoto, Yugo Imakita), 4903
6. Hokkaido (Kazune Obama, Shingo Hoki, Toshihiro Matsunaga, Nobuaki Nagao), 4794
7. Chiba (Hiroaki Yoshino, Takanori Yoshino, Kosuke Mizuno, Daisuke Suzuki), 4789
8. Osaka (Masaaki Takemoto, Yuto Moriya, Takayuki Yamamoto, Tsuneo Hamada), 4666

Women
1. Chiba (Junko Suzuki, Terumi Ito, Kana Shimoide, Misaki Mukotani), 4579
2. Hokkaido (Yuria Fukuzono, Emiri Seino, Eri Hoki, Haruka Matsuda), 4513
3. Wakayama (Maki Kawaguchi, Saki Kawaguchi, Nayu Yamamoto, Mio Nebuka), 4474
4. Osaka (Maki Nakano, Rika Yamamoto, Tomoko Kyoi, Kimie Takebe), 4416
5. Kanagawa (Seika Fujiwara, Sakura Okubo, Misaki Hamano, Yuri Sato), 4396
6. Tokushima (Mari Kimura, Kaho Sano, Miho Fujiwara, Mariko Kayama), 4361
7. Fukushima (Miki Okochi, Kaori Ishizuka, Konatsu Saito, Eiko Suzuki), 4341
8. Ishikawa (Hiroko Konishi, Sachiko Hirabayashi, Kuniko Nakamura, Tomoko Daimaruya), 4199

71st National Sports Festival – Two-Player Team Results

Players with position, prefecture and 18-game total

Men
1. Chiba B (Takanori Yoshino, Hiroaki Yoshino), 3645
2. Gunma A (Takahiro Sato, Takuya Miyazawa), 3638
3. Fukushima A (Kunio Endo, Masaru Ito), 3626
4. Kanagawa B (Yuta Saito, Koichi Kawada), 3618
5. Hokkaido A (Kazune Obama, Shingo Hoki), 3617
6. Shizuoka A (Masakazu Suzuki, Tetsuya Ishijima), 3572
7. Osaka A (Masaaki Takemoto, Tsuneo Hamada), 3571
8. Miyazaki B (Takehiro Oyama, Takashi Kajisa ), 3569

Women
1. Gifu A (Mirai Tanihara, Hikaru Takekawa), 3690
2. Chiba A (Kana Shimoide, Misaki Mukotani), 3651
3. Tokyo A (Megumi Kitamura, Mana Yoshida), 3594
4. Kyoto B (Yuna Kawasaki, Tazu Yamasaki), 3535
5. Osaka A (Maki Nakano, Kimie Takebe), 3519
6. Kanagawa A (Seika Fujiwara, Yuri Sato), 3476
7. Fukushima B (Konatsu Saito, Kaori Ishizuka), 3367
8. Kyoto A (Emi Miyagi, Reiko Kagino), 3360

Boys
1. Mie (Yuta Takagi, Yuki Kato), 3799
2. Ibaraki (Tomoya Izuka, Riku Masui), 3663
3. Nagasaki (Keita Tokuhisa, Yuma Haraguchi), 3648
4. Tokyo (Riku Amakawa,Ryota Iguchi), 3626
5. Aomori (KzutoTakubo, Yuya Nakamura), 3572
6. Hyogo (Ryunosuke Morita, Kazuki Tachibana), 3535
7. Miyazaki (Kazuya Oyamada, Haruki Kitasato), 3493
8. Gunma (Ryohei Suzuki, Yui Sato), 3490

Girls
1. Aichi (Chisato Hayakawa, Wakana Mizutani), 3540
2. Tottori (Reina Urakawa, Rion Urakawa), 3537
3. Shizuoka (Haru Suzuki, Mari Ozawa), 3385
4. Hokkaido (Saki Takahashi, Hikaru Kudo), 3380
5. Wakayama (Kaai Isekawa, Mareka Akata), 3334
6. Ibaraki (Maho Kosugi, Nina Sakano), 3321
7. Okayama (Rena Obayashi, Maiko Yoshimoto), 3313
8. Kyoto (Akari Yasuda, Yui Mito), 3203

71st National Sports Festival – Singles Results

Players with position, prefecture and 9-game total

Men
1. Yuta Ishikawa (Gunma), 2082
2. Shunsuke Takebayashi (Gifu), 1986
3. Tatsuya Chiba (Miyagi), 1984
4. Shogo Wada (Wakayama), 1970
5. Tomoyuki Sasaki (Kanagawa), 1955
6. Kohei Oshita (Ehime), 1947
7. Tomonobu Hayasaka (Miyagi), 1945
8. Takuya Miyazawa (Gunma), 1911

Women
1. Kimie Takebe (Osaka), 1890
2. Mari Kimura (Tokushima), 1872
3. Misaki Mukotani (Chiba), 1840
4. Junko Suzuki (Chiba), 1837
5. Seika Fujiwara (Kanagawa), 1829
6. Megumi Kitamura (Tokyo), 1800
7. Yoko Sugawara (Iwate), 1799
8. Junko Kuraoka (Okayama), 1776

Boys
1. Hideaki Hata (Kanagawa), 2001
2. Yasuke Uemura (Wakayaam), 1970
3. Tomoya Yamamoto (Hiroshima), 1904
4. Yuya Nakamura (Aomori), 1882
5. Koki Abe (Iwate), 1873
6. Riku Masui (Ibaraki), 1825
7. Ryohei Suzuki (Gunma), 1785
8. Rita Azuma (Aichi), 1778

Girls
1. Reina Urakawa (Tottori), 1920
2. Rena Obayashi (Okaayam), 1788
3. Shion Izumune (Aichi), 1772
4. Haru Suzuki (Shizuoka), 1742
5. Rise Kosaka (Fukuoka), 1732
6. Maho Kosugi (Ibaraki), 1681
7. Yuna Mukotani (Chiba), 1629
8. Chisato Hayakawa (Aichi), 1579

71st National ‘Sports Festival Tokyo’ – Bowling Competition Points

Combined Overall Point Standings for the Emperor’ Cup

1. Chiba (98), 2. Kanagawa (80), 3. Hokkaido (67), 4. Osaka (54), 5. Wakayama (52), 6. Ibaraki (46), 6. Tokyo (46), 8. Gunma (45), 9. Shizuoka (42), 10. Gifu (41), 11. Fukushima (40), 12. Tottori (39), 13. Hiroshima (37), 14. Aichi (36), 15. Mie (34), 15. Yamaguchi (34), 17. Kyoto (31), 18. Nagasaki (28), 19. Aomori (27), 20. Tokushima (26), 21. Kumamoto (25), 22. Okayama (24), 23. Saitama (22), 24. Hyogo (19), 24. Ehime (19), 24. Miyazaki (19), 27. Miyagi (18), 28. Iwate (16), 29. Fukuoka (14), 30. Ishikawa (13), 31. Akita, Yamagata, Tochigi, Yamanashi, Niigata, Nagano, Toyama, Fukui, Shiga, Nara, Tottori, Shimane, Kagawa, Kochi, Saga, Oita, Kagoshima, Okinawa (10 each).

Women’s Overall Point Standings for the Empress’ Cup
1. Chiba (68), 2. Hokkaido (46), 3.Osaka (45), 4. Wakayama (40), 5. Tottori (39), 6. Kangawa (35), 6. Aichi (35), 8. Gifu (34), 9. Shizuoka (33), 10. Tokyo (31), 10. Kyoto (31), 12. Gifu (26),
13. Okayama (24), 14. Fukushima (22), 14. Ibaraki (22), 16. Ehime (16), 17. Fukuoka, 18. Ishikawa (13), 19. Iwate (12), 20. Aomori, Miyagi, Akita, Yamagata, Tochigi, Gunma, Saitama, Yamanashi, Niigata, Nagano, Toyama, Fukui, Mie, Shiga, Hyogo, Nara, Shimane, Hiroshima, Yamaguchi, Kagawa, Kochi, Saga, Nagasaki, Kumamoto, Oita, Miyazaki, Kagoshima, Okinawa (10 each).