Swimming Sagano 200m personal medley strengthening specified standard time breakthrough November 10 18:06

Rio de Janeiro Olympics, a gold medalist for swimming, Kosuke Kanno, who was temporarily resting this season, broke through the standard time that he could receive a strengthening designation as a representative of Japan in the men's 200-meter medley of the competition held in Shizuoka Prefecture .

Ogino, who won the gold medal at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics and the men's 400m individual medley, had been waiting for the tournament for about half a year from February because of the decline in motivation.

Mr. Kanno has participated in the Japan Society of Professionals Championship held in Fuji City, Shizuoka Prefecture from the 9th, and on the 10th day of the second day of the tournament, he faced a 200m personal medley of a special type.

In the morning qualifying, Sugano pulled the race with an aggressive swim from the first butterfly and finished at 1 minute 58 seconds 73, 0 seconds 50 minutes earlier than the standard time for receiving a strengthened designation as a candidate for Japan.

In the final in the afternoon, the time was 1 minute 59 seconds 23.

Sugano didn't have the time he wanted so far after returning, but if he broke through the standard time, he gave a result at the last tournament in this year, where he could be designated as a candidate for Japan.

“It was time to become one of the milestones”

Sugano responded to the interview after the race of the final that he had exceeded the standard time, saying, “I had felt the impact of resting without taking time. I think it ’s time to become one of the milestones. ”

At the beginning of his return, Kanno was scheduled to conduct high altitude training in Spain under the head coach of the Japanese national team, Hiramasa Hiramasa, who usually receives guidance.

However, in order to give priority to gaining the experience of a match that continued to be impossible to swim, we decided to leave the country alone and enter the tournament separately.

Mr. Kanno said, “The result of training and racing while thinking by myself,“ What would Hirai-sensei say? ”Has a big meaning. It was simply lack of practice that lost time in the final. I want to look forward and go next. "