Para athletics world championship medal acquisition is also scheduled to be sent off within Tokyo Para November 15th 4:01

Teruyo Tanaka won the silver medal and Yuka Kiyama won the bronze medal in the Para-land world championship women's 100-meter wheelchair class T52 held in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. However, the number of athletes participating does not meet the requirements of the IPC (International Paralympic Committee), and there is a possibility that implementation at the Tokyo Paralympic Games will be left behind. The

As a general rule, if you enter within 4th place in all the World Championships, you will be selected as the representative of the Tokyo Paralympic Games.

According to the Japan Para Athletics Federation, according to the rules of the IPC (International Paralympic Committee), it is necessary to participate by more than 6 athletes from more than 3 countries in order to be established as a Paralympic event.

The IPC decides whether or not it will be held at the Tokyo Paralympic Games based on the number of players who participated in this World Championship, but this time, 4 players who participated in the class T52 of women's 100-meter wheelchairs. Only five people in the country could not meet the conditions to be established as a Paralympic event.

For this reason, Teruyo Tanaka won a silver medal with a time of 22 seconds 85 and Yuka Kiyama won a bronze medal with a time of 25 seconds 04 in this event, but the Japan Para Athletics Federation is the representative of the Tokyo Paralympic Games. I am not going to be accepted immediately.

Tanaka "I believe in holding Tokyo Para and do my best"

Teruyo Tanaka, who won the silver medal, said, “I was disappointed because I got out of the good start and got out of the way, but I was stalled in the second half.”

He also said that he did not meet the requirements for the Paralympic event, “I will do my best to believe that it will be held at the Tokyo Paralympic Games”.

Tanaka is a 60-year-old veteran from Toki City, Gifu Prefecture who has participated in the Paralympic Games four times. At the age of 24, a car accident caused damage to the spinal cord, and I started on land about 30 years ago. He has won five medals in four tournaments he has participated in, including winning a gold medal at the 1996 Atlanta Paralympic Games. Kotoshi appealed for the first time in Japan as a leading figure in Japan, such as winning the Japan Championship and Japan Para Tournament.

Kiyama “I want to call for more players”

Yuka Kiyama, who won the bronze medal, said, “I'm glad that I won the bronze medal, but I'm sorry because my time was not good.”

Also, regarding the fact that it did not meet the requirements for the Paralympic event this time, “I am currently in a situation where there are not enough participants, but I still want to participate in the Tokyo Games, so I would like to call for more players to participate.” It was.

Yuka Kiyama is 35 years old from Niimi City, Okayama Prefecture. It is a congenital intractable disease with a declining motor function called “spinal cerebellar degeneration”. He has been working on land since he was in the third year of junior high school and won 4th place at the Rio de Janeiro Paralympic Games.