Youth Olympics Speed Skating Mass Start at Arito on Friday January 17 2:26
At the Lausanne Youth Olympics, a speed skating mass start final was held on the 16th, and 17-year-old Kazunori Atobe won the gold medal.
The Lausanne Youth Olympics was a mass-start race for men and women at a speed skating venue on a natural lake in St. Moritz in eastern Switzerland.
In the mass start of the Youth Olympic Games, athletes start at once and compete for 10 laps on a 400-meter course.
In the men's finals, Aritto and Yuno Yamamoto participated in the race from Japan, and the two raced forward and backward in the middle, with Yamamoto pulling them.
And Alito, who excels at long distances, jumped out in the late game and took the top position on lap 9, and kept the lead as it was and won a gold medal.
Arito won the second gold medal following 1500 meters.
On the other hand, Yamamoto was 10th.
Yuka Takahashi and Yukino Yoshida participated in the women's final. Takahashi, who was racing behind the group, caught up at the end of the race, but fell short of the spot and was fifth. Yoshida was 14th.
Arito “Consciousness to go around the corner”
Arito, who won the gold medal, smiled, "I was glad I was able to do it because I was aiming for the gold medal before the race."
Regarding the race, "I thought that Russian players were strong, so I put it behind Russian players with Yamamoto. I was conscious of going around the corner at the end so that anyone could come after me. The moment I finished, I was tired, but I was happy. "
He was looking forward to the future, saying, "The World Games will be in the future, the Beijing Olympics will be in the next two years, and the Olympics in Italy after that.