Track and field competition resumes Honami Maeda's personal best at 5000 meters July 4 21:04

About three months due to the spread of the new coronavirus, the competition was suspended for about three months, and the medium and long distance competition began in Hokkaido on the 4th, and the Tokyo Olympics, women's marathon representative, Honami Maeda, reached 5000 meters. I entered the competition and marked my personal best.

On track, due to the spread of the infection, all competitions were postponed or canceled from April and the competitions were suspended.

The tournament restarted from the 3rd, and in Shibetsu City, Hokkaido, a mid-to-long distance tournament was held in which the top players participated on the 4th.

The event will be held in the opening game of a series of four games in Hokkaido over about two weeks, and the organizer will record the temperature and physical condition from one week before to all the participants such as athletes and leaders at the venue. In addition to obliging us to submit this form, we have taken unprecedented infection prevention measures, such as limiting the number of athletes in one race to 25 or less.

On the 4th, a so-called "non-spectator" who did not enter the spectator was held, and Maeda, who was nominated as a representative of the Tokyo Olympics at the marathon, participated in the 5000-meter women's marathon.

Maeda was the first race in four and a half months since the 30-kilometer tournament in February, but at the beginning of the race, he raced for the first time and showed a powerful run such as standing at the top, suddenly updating his personal best for nearly 3 seconds 15 minutes 35 seconds I came in second at 21 times.

In addition, Nozomi Tanaka, who recorded the second highest record in Japan at 5000 meters of last year's world championship, participated in the women's 1500 meters, approaching the Japanese record to 0 seconds 82 from the start 4 minutes 8 It became the 1st place in 68 seconds and set a good record of 2nd place in the history of Japan in this event.

The next tournament will be held in Fukagawa, Hokkaido on the 8th of this month.

Various measures to avoid "denseness" by new corona measures

At the track and field tournament, which started on the 4th in Hokkaido, various measures were taken to prevent the players from "crowding" with the new coronavirus countermeasures.

As a basic measure, we did not include the audience, installed disinfectant solutions in various places, and required all parties to submit a form with information on their body temperature and physical condition.

Also, in the competition, we limited the number of athletes, which used to be about 40 to 40, to 25 within the maximum number of races so far, and the overall limit for the competition was limited to 300.

Before the race, the players who were called up had gathered at one place all at once, but in this tournament, the athletes who voluntarily gathered in the lane 5 minutes ago finished We took measures to prevent players from breathing out of breath, saying "Don't stop."

According to Mr. Tadashi Kono, long-distance marathon director of the Japan Athletics Federation, according to the interview, ``I think that I could do a lot of measures to prevent the 3 denseness as much as I can do now, but the virus itself is invisible, so this is 100 points. It wouldn't have been a daunting preparation to hold the event, but we want to run it so hard that we can meet the hard work of the players."