Furuya wins the Para Athletics Japan Championships Women's 1500m class with intellectual disabilities 17:46, September 6
The Para Athletics Japan Championship is a women's 1,500 meter class with intellectual disability, and 25-year-old Anju Furuya won a new Asian record of 4:36.56, making her very close to participating in the Tokyo Paralympic Games next year.
The Para Athletics Japan Championship, where athletes aiming for the Tokyo Paralympic Games participated, was held in Kumagaya City, Saitama Prefecture, with thorough measures against infection with the new coronavirus.
In the women's 1500 meters class for intellectual disabilities, Furuya, who finished sixth in the World Championship last year, took the lead from the beginning.
In the latter half of the year, he was far behind and defended the top, winning the time of 4 minutes 36 seconds 56, setting an Asian record of 10 seconds or more.
This is a good time equivalent to the 2nd place in the world ranking, and it has come close to the representative unofficial decision that the condition is to be within the 6th place.
Taiki Akai (21) was 3 minutes 56.24 seconds and Yuki Iwata (21) was 3 minutes 56 seconds 36 even in the men's 1500 meters class with intellectual disability. I gave the time.
This world ranking needs to be maintained until next spring, but young players have made a leap forward for the Tokyo Paralympic Games next year in a class with intellectual disability that has yet to be decided.