Torch Relay First Nadeshiko Japan W Cup winner December 17th 14:08

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Details of the torch relay for the next year's Tokyo Olympics will be announced on the 17th, and the first torch runner in Japan will be a member of the Japan national team `` Nadeshiko Japan '' who won the 2011 Soccer Women's World Cup. .

This was announced at the event organized by the Organizing Committee on the 17th.

The torch relay in Japan for the Tokyo Olympics will start on March 26 next year from the soccer facility “J Village” in Fukushima Prefecture.

This first torch runner will be a member of the Japan National Team “Nadeshiko Japan” who won the 2011 Soccer Women's World Cup.

Nadeshiko Japan won the first World Cup championship in July 2011, about four months after the Great East Japan Earthquake, and the appearance of fighting without giving up until the end gave courage and excitement throughout the disaster-stricken Japan, It was the first organization to receive the National Honor Award.

In February, after the earthquake, we were the first full-generation representative of Japan to attend a camp at J Village.

The Torch Relay calls for the participation of 21 athletes and director Norio Sasaki at the time. On the 17th of the event, Ms. Ando, ​​Ms. Iwashimizu, Ms. Ayumi Kaihori, and Sasaki Norio participated.

The Chofu Little League and Little Senior players who participated in the event will be torch runners in Tokyo.

The team is a strong man with 11 wins in the national tournament of the Little League of Baseball. He has won the national championship and is ranked third in the world championship.

According to the Organizing Committee, there are cases where the Olympic torch runners publicize their sponsor companies and prefectures, so the Organizing Committee I am going to notify you after the day.

Such people

In addition to Nadeshiko Japan, the first runner in Japan, torch runners will be appointed from various fields.

Torch Runners are selected by prefectural and sponsor companies through public offerings and recommendations, and there are also frames selected by recommendation from the IOC = International Olympic Committee, etc., and the total number is about 10,000.

Some of the people who were decided to be the torch runners by the 17th were found, and in Tokyo the director of professional baseball / giants and director Haratoshi Hara who lives in Tokyo, and served as the captain of the Japan national team at the Kotoshino Rugby World Cup Reach Michael, who is based in Fuchu City, has been announced.

Also, Ken Shimura, a talent who was born in Higashimurayama City, performed “Higashimurayama Ondo” on a popular TV program and spread the name of the place nationwide.

Outside of Tokyo, Miyagi is one of the survivors of the Okawa Elementary School in Ishinomaki City who was killed by the tsunami of the Great East Japan Earthquake.

Osaka is from Kishiwada City, a global designer Junko Koshino, and Kabuki actor Ainosuke Kataoka, from Sakai City.

In Okinawa, women's golf was ranked first in the world ranking during the active days, and Aya Miyazato, who retired as a man, was informed.