Para swimming world championship Suzuki is 100m freestyle silver Japan's first medal September 11 6:06

The World Championship of Para Swimming held in the UK was held on the 10th day of the tournament on the second day of the tournament. In the men ’s 100-meter freestyle motor dysfunction class, Takayuki Suzuki won the first silver medal in Japan. , Won the Tokyo Paralympic Games.

If you enter the second place in the World Championship of Para Swimming in London, England, you will be awarded the Tokyo Paralympic Games, and the winning Japanese player will be selected as the representative.

On the 10th day of the second day of the tournament, a Japanese captain and competent athlete who participated in the Paralympic 4 tournament consecutively, Suzuki proceeded to the final of the 100-meter freestyle motor impairment class for men.

Suzuki, the world record holder of this event, turned back with a time of 38.88, faster than when he marked the world record.

However, in the second half, he was reversed by a Russian player and finished 2nd in the time of 1 minute 22 seconds 38 and won a silver medal.

Although Suzuki missed the representative appointment, he won the first Japanese medal in this tournament and also won the Tokyo Paralympics Japan.

The Russian player who won the gold medal marked a new world record that shortened his world record by 0.45 in a time of 1 minute 21.28.

In the women's 200m freestyle motor impairment class, 49-year-old Mayumi Narita, who won the most gold medal in the Paralympic Games, was 8th in 3 minutes 17 seconds 48.

In the visually impaired class of women's 100-meter backstroke, Tomomi Ishiura was 5th in 1 minute 25 seconds 13 to update his personal best.

Suzuki "I'm sorry I can't get a gold medal"

Takayuki Suzuki recalled, “I was disappointed in the sense that I couldn't do either because I was aiming for a personal best and a gold medal, but at least it was good in that sense because I was able to win the medals.”

On top of that, he said, “I can hold the water well when swimming. In the next race, I want to swim so that I can calm down a little more in the first half and keep my time in the second half.”

Narita "I was able to demonstrate my power"

Mayumi Narita said, “I think I was able to demonstrate the power I have now. Tomorrow, I have a three-day break, so I would like to rest and take a 50-meter backstroke.”

Ishiura "I'm really happy to be in 5th place"

Tomomi Ishiura said, “I was glad that I could further reduce my personal best. I was really happy to advance to the final and put it in 5th place. I would like to make adjustments for the next event.” .

Suzuki player history

Takayuki Suzuki is 32 years old from Hamamatsu City. Of the 10 classes of motor dysfunction, this is the fourth most severe class.

From the time I was born, I had no legs and right hand, and my left hand had a disability.

The Paralympic Games participated in four consecutive tournaments from the Athens tournament in the third year of high school, and won a gold medal at the 2008 Beijing Tournament for a 50-meter breaststroke.

At the Rio de Janeiro tournament, I missed a medal and thought of retirement, but as a result of analyzing the race video, I decided to aim for the Tokyo tournament, "I can still evolve."

Last year, the change in international rules changed to a class with more obstacles and jumped to the world's top class.

Suzuki has been using the overseas training system of his office as a training base in Newcastle, UK since 2013, and he has been strengthening and going on to graduate school to study sports management.

In the UK, he worked on strengthening the turn and training the core under the coach of a Paralympic gold medalist. In last year's Asia Para tournament, he won five gold medals in history.

In the world championships, gold medals in multiple events are expected, and the Tokyo Paralympics are aiming for the first gold medals in three competitions.