Para-Athletics Yamamoto Atsushi teaches African athletes December 15th 11:12

African and Togo prosthetic leg athletes aiming to participate in the Tokyo Paralympics were invited to Japan and learned tips on how to use prosthetic legs from silver medalist Atsushi Yamamoto at the Rio de Janeiro Tournament.

Togo, in western Africa, is one of the first players in the Rio de Janeiro tournament to participate in the Paralympic Games and is trying to increase the number of players participating in the Tokyo Games.

However, there is almost no circulation of expensive sports prosthetic legs in Togo, so the training of prosthetic class players is a major issue.

For this reason, the Japanese prosthetics and orthotics association, a group of engineers who produce prostheses and prostheses, invited a male prosthetic leg athlete, Quakmensa Kojo Edem (36), to support Togo in Japan. It was.

Quakumensa is a 100m player. On the 14th, Rio de Janeiro won a silver medal in the long jump of the Paralympics, and Atsushi Yamamoto, who is scheduled to participate in the Tokyo Paralympics, received guidance from the association.

Quakumensa was instructed by Yamamoto for about two hours on how to practice prosthetics and tips, such as conscious of raising the legs with prosthetic legs raised.

Quakumensa said, “I learned a lot. I want to practice hard even after returning home.”

Yamamoto said, “I want to learn what I taught and I will meet again at the Paralympic Games next year.”

Kazuhiro Sakai, Advisor of the Japanese Prosthetics and Orthotics Association, said, “We planned as one of the overseas support and dissemination activities. If there is an opportunity, I would like to support other athletes”.