Para swimming Men's 50m backstroke Japan record from Mizu Sugawara won the championship September 24 0:20
At the Para Para Swimming Japan Para Tournament, Men's 50m backstroke motor dysfunction class, 18-year-old Aiming for Tokyo Paralympic Games, Sakaki Sugawara marked a good time to update his own Japanese record and won the championship.
Sakakibara, who has no arms since birth, was born in Akita Prefecture, and started swimming at the recommendation of his mother when he was five years old.
On the last day of Japan's largest Japan Para Tournament held in Yokohama, Sugawara participated in the 50m backstroke for men.
Sakakibara, who shrunk his Japanese record in the qualifying in the morning by 0.19, took the speed with a strong kick and stable form in the final and marked a new record of 43.63 in Japan, which further reduced the qualifying record by 0.28. And won.
This record does not reach the Tokyo Paralympic participation standard record set by the United Nations for more than 1 second, so in order to participate in the Tokyo Paralympic, Japan will be able to exceed this record, and Japan will be independently at the representative selection meeting in March next year. The dispatch standard record to be set must also be exceeded.
“I want to participate in the Tokyo Paralympic Games and get a medal. The time is short until March, but I will carefully spend every day thinking carefully about what I can do in the meantime. I want to go. "