Para athletics world championship women's 400m 4th place Sasaki Tokyo Para National Team offer date November 8th 2:14
The Para athletics world championship held in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, opened on the 7th, and Mana Sasaki entered the 4th place in the time of 58 seconds 38 in the women's 400m visual impairment class, next year's Tokyo Paralympics I decided to be the representative of This is the first time that a Japanese player has been selected as the representative in this tournament.
“4th place is not good”
Mana Sasaki, who entered the 4th place in the women's 400m visual impairment class and was selected as the representative of the Tokyo Paralympic, said, “I am very happy with the offer, but I was aiming for a medal, so the 4th place is not good.”
In the race, the start was started again by flying another player, but he recalled, “I have tried many times in the past so I decided to run without worrying about it.”
On top of that, regarding the fact that he was in 4th place in the 58 second range, “The qualifying gave a reasonable time, so the final goal was the 57 second range, but the start was not successful. There are also players, so I want to do my best to get closer to the medal as close as possible. "
Mana Sasaki is 22 years old from Fukushima City. Sasaki, who has a disability called “iridia”, which is difficult to adjust for light, started working on the track at the middle distance when he was in the second year of junior high school, and turned to 400 meters in the second year of high school.
He continues to compete while working for a bank in Fukushima Prefecture, and recently he has actively adopted weight training to renew his personal best. In last year's Asia Para Games, he won a gold medal in the new record.