On the first day of the World Speed Skating Championships Miho Takagi takes first place Kodaira takes second place February 29 7:20
The speed skating world championship kicks off in Norway on the 28th, and in the "Sprint", which will determine the best short distance in the world, after the first day, Miho Takagi is ranked 1st overall and Nao Kodaira is ranked 2nd overall for women. Was.
The Speed Skating World Championships kicked off in Norway on the 28th with the merger of the World Sprint Championships and the World All-Round Championships this season.
On the first day of the tournament, a "Sprint" competition was held in which two people slid twice at 500 and 1000 meters to compete for overall performance, and three men and women from Japan participated.
Of these, Takagi, who is aiming for the first overall championship, including the World Sprint Championship last year, ranked first with a time of 37.51 in the first 500 meters.
Takagi won the bronze medal at the Pyeongchang Olympics at 1000 meters, and finished the link record with a time of 1:13:75, finishing first in the second category with a total of 74.385.
On the other hand, Kodaira, a 500-meter gold medalist at the Pyeongchang Olympics, won his second World Sprint Championship last year in two tournaments, finishing second at 500 seconds in 37.53 seconds, followed by one minute at 1000 meters. He finished seventh with a time of 15 seconds and 44, but finished second overall with a total of 75.250.
For boys, Tatsuya Niihama was second at 500m and a time of 34.58 seconds, and at 1000m he also updated his personal best and link record to 1st at 1m8.28s, bringing the total to 68.720. I am.
On the 29th day of the tournament, on the 29th day of the tournament, the “Sprint” day 2 competition will be held to determine the championship, and the “All round” competition, which will compete with the overall results of short to long distance 4 types .