Archery All Japan Championship Women's Ren Hayakawa wins for the third time in nine years November 1, 18:01
The archery all-Japan championship was held in Okazaki City, Aichi Prefecture, and the women's London Olympic bronze medalist Ren Hayakawa won the championship for the first time in nine years.
The All Japan Championship, which decides the best archery in Japan, started in Okazaki City on the 31st, and on the 1st, a recurve final tournament using a general bow was held for both men and women.
The final tournament with 32 people who won the qualifying will be held in a way that the player who got 6 points or more in the set point wins first, and for girls, in addition to Hayakawa who won the bronze medal at the London Olympics, the qualifying on the 31st Top athletes aiming for the Tokyo Olympics, such as Miki Nakamura who passed at the top, participated.
Hayakawa won well and defeated Tomomi Sugimoto 6-4 in the final to win his third victory in nine years.
For the boys, Takaharu Furukawa, a silver medalist at the London Olympics, lost in the middle of the tournament, and in the final, both Yoshito Kuwae and Wataru Onuki, who had never won the championship, met, and Kuwae played a stable match with 6 pairs. I won 4 and won my first victory.
This tournament was the first tournament in which top athletes participated after the spread of the new coronavirus infection, and the All Japan Archery Federation took thorough measures against infection, such as widening the intervals between athletes when shooting arrows.