Youth Olympics Speed ​​Skating Yukino Yoshida's team will be on Friday January 16 at 6:05

At the Lausanne Youth Olympic Games, a speed skating was held on the 15th, and a team sprint was held in which athletes from different countries and regions formed a team and competed for a 1600 meter time. .

The Lausanne Youth Olympics was a team sprint race on the seventh day of the Games, on the 15th of July, at a speed skating venue on a natural lake in St. Moritz in eastern Switzerland.

The Youth Olympic Team Sprint is a team of four, two men and women across countries and regions, competing for a 1600 meter time.

Based on the 500-metre and 1500-metre times of the tournament, 16 teams were created to equalize their abilities.

Of these, Yoshida, who competed from Japan, took the lead on the second lap of the team, and after passing the top 800 meters in the first half, the following Austrian and Russian male players slipped without giving up the top, I won the gold medal in 2 minutes 4 seconds 10 times.

In other Japanese teams, the team including Kazunari Ato, who won the gold medal at 1500 meters for men, was a silver medal at 2:05:92.

Gold medal Yukino Yoshida "I was able to afford my feelings"

Yukino Yoshida, who won the gold medal, was pleased, saying, "I'm really happy because I didn't think my team could win a gold medal."

He said, "I was able to give myself a lot of comfort. I was able to give it to the boys without slowing down, so I thought it was a lean race." .

Regarding the fact that he raced in a team with players who crossed countries and regions that are not held in other tournaments, he said, "I was a good member as a team. I will be a rival in the future, so I hope I can fight on the world stage again" I was talking.

Silver medal Kazunari Ado "I'm happy to get the medal"

The winner of the silver medal, Kazunari Atobe, smiled, "I was planning to take part in the race. I'm glad I got the medal."

Regarding races with teams that transcended countries and regions, “I was worried about my first experience, but I think the team was able to race as a whole. I was grateful that I was able to move at the end, and it was my first experience but it was interesting. "