Youth Olympics Snowboard Big Air is a man and a woman on Friday January 23 4:43
The Lausanne Youth Olympics snowboarding took place in the Big Air finals, with Ryoma Kimata and Miki Asanuma winning gold medals for boys and girls, respectively.
The last day of the Lausanne Youth Olympic Games was held on the 22nd of which the snowboarding big air was held.
The Big Air finals will slide down steep slopes, jump into the air, and score the difficulty and perfection of the technique on a 100-point scale.
Of the three runs, you will compete in two points with the highest score.
For the boy, 17-year-old Kimata scored the top overall score of 96.50 for the first time, with the front side triple cork 1440 rotating four times horizontally while rotating three times vertically.
In the second run, the cab triple cork 1440, which took four turns horizontally while turning three times vertically while taking off with the foot opposite to the dominant foot, almost perfectly scored a high score of 98.50 and won a gold medal. .
A 15-year-old third-year junior high school student, Ao Kawakami, showed a stable performance of 96.00 for the second time and 95.75 for the third time, and won a silver medal following Kimata.
On the other hand, in the case of women, 17-year-old Asanuma decided the "cab double nine", which makes two vertical turns and a horizontal turn at the first time, and when he came to the top of the whole at 93.50, he marked the third performance 79.00 To win a gold medal.
In addition, Okuyama Hanami was sixth in Japan.
Ryoma Kimata "I'm confident"
Ryoma Kimata, who won the gold medal at the Snowboard Men's Big Air, smiled, saying, "I was able to succeed with a high probability in this tournament, which led to my confidence."
When asked about his future goals, he stated with great strength that he would like to win in the upcoming World Cup and to work for the Olympics to win a gold medal.
“As I can slide better than before,”
A gold medal at the Snowboard Women's Big Air, Kirari Asanuma said, "I'm very happy. I was able to decide on a technique that I couldn't decide at last year's World Tournament, and now I can ski better than before. "I was smiling.
He renewed his determination to continue working hard to participate in the Olympics.
Japan has the most medals ever
At the Lausanne Youth Olympic Games, Japanese athletes have won a total of 17 medals, a record high at the Winter Youth Olympic Games.
Japan won 17 medals, including nine gold, seven silver, and one bronze medals, except for events in which players across countries and regions compete as teams.
Of these, snowboarders earned gold and silver medals for both men and women in the halfpipe, and men also won gold and silver medals for men and women for the Big Air.
In addition, the first ice hockey girl won a gold medal for the medal, and the training of the junior generation, which has been carried out mainly by competition groups, has come to fruition.