Para Athletics Japan Championship Women's long jump Maya Nakanishi wins new title in Asia September 5 21:23
Parasai Athletics Japan Championship, which had been postponed due to the new coronavirus, opened, and Maya Nakanishi, who is expected to win a gold medal at the Tokyo Paralympics, is 5m 70cm, which is a women's long jump and breaks the Asian record significantly. I jumped and won.
The Para Athletics Japan Championship started on the 5th in Kumagaya City, Saitama Prefecture, with top players aiming for the Tokyo Paralympics next year.
35-year-old Nakanishi, who participated in the women's long jump prosthesis class, won his first World Championship last year and was nominated as a representative of the Tokyo Paralympics.
Aiming to win a gold medal next year, we have been training in parks and other places while the stadium was closed due to an emergency declaration.
Nakanishi won the championship in the fourth jump by showing a jump of 5 meters and 70 centimeters, which is 19 centimeters higher than his own Asian record.
In the more long-running class of women's long jump, 21-year-old Tomomi Usawazawa and 22-year-old Kaede Maekawa both competed for the two young men who have been designated as representatives of the Tokyo Paralympics.
As a result, Usazawa jumped 4 meters and 29 centimeters, surpassing Maekawa, who marked his personal best, by 7 centimeters, and won the championship.
In the men's long jump and prosthesis classes, Rio de Janeiro Paralympic silver medalist Atsushi Yamamoto, 38, won a 6m 49cm jump, surpassing last year's World Championship record.
Maya Nakanishi "I felt a great response towards "Tokyo""
Maya Nakanishi, who won the Asian new record in the women's long jump and prosthesis class, said, “I was worried about what kind of record would be set at the first race of the season, but I enjoyed it. To be honest, I gave my goal of 6 meters here. I wanted to keep it, but the adjustment was correct, so I felt a great response to Tokyo."
In addition, “I made an effort in the corona, did not deteriorate the quality of practice, and thought very much about what I should do now to achieve the goal. The Tokyo Paralympics was postponed and it seems that it is over I thought it would be embarrassing if it became a mood, and I was glad that I was able to do it by saying "I have no choice but to update the record."