Men's high diving Rikuto Tamai personal best update and Japan Championship second consecutive championship September 27 16:29
In the diving Japan Championship men's high diving, Rikuto Tamai won the second straight victory in the performance that greatly updated his personal best score.
The third diving Japanese Championship held in Nagaoka City, Niigata Prefecture, was held on the 27th, the final day of the tournament.
Of these, Tamai, who won the event last year at the age of 13, the youngest in the history of the tournament, participated in the men's high diving.
Tamai, who passed the qualifying in 1st place, corrected the technique of entering the water backwards, which he made a mistake in the qualifying in the second time of the final, and showed a stable performance such as showing the entry of water with less splash.
In addition, he also decided the big skill "5255B" that flies backward and twists twice and a half times backward, and steadily decides difficult techniques such as marking 99.00, and records 528.80, which exceeds his personal best by nearly 30 points in total. And achieved the second straight victory.
As a result, Tamai, who won the men's board diving on the 26th, won the championship in this tournament.