Surfing Ohara Maeda To participate in the Tokyo Olympics World Championships November 3 21:57
The "Japan Open", which requires participation in the world championships that doubles as the final qualifying for the Tokyo Olympics in surfing, was held in Chiba Prefecture, with Hiroto Ohara winning the men's championship and Mahina Maeda winning the women's championship.
The Nippon Surfing Association has decided to send three men and women, including the winner of the Japan Open, to the World Championships in El Salvador, Central America next year, which will also serve as the final qualifying for the Tokyo Olympics.
The tournament began on the 1st at the Tsurigasaki coast in Ichinomiya Town, Chiba Prefecture, which is the venue for the Tokyo Olympics, and more than 20 men and women each participated in the final on the 3rd.
Surfing is a scoring competition that evaluates the difficulty of a technique on a scale of 10 points, and the ranking is determined by the total of the two highest scores in the evaluation of the technique performed within the specified time.
The men's final was contested by four people in a difficult environment called "onshore" where the wind blows from the sea to the land.
Ohara, a local player, carefully watched the waves, showed a sharp turn with a big splash when less than 7 minutes left, and got a high score of over 8 points, and won the reverse victory with a total score of 13.30.
The women's final was also contested by four people, and Maeda, who practiced based in Hawaii from early spring when the infection of the new coronavirus began to spread in Japan, led in a stable turn from the beginning and won the championship with a total score of 9.47. did.
As a result, Ohara and Maeda have decided to participate in the world championships.
This tournament was held without spectators as a countermeasure against infection, and the Nippon Surfing Association prepared a custom-made item for the four-colored clothing used to make it easier to identify athletes at sea.
He wrote a large name on the back and handed it to each player, and stopped using it until now.
The athletes wore different clothing than usual when they entered the competition.
"To handle any wave"
Hiroto Ohara, a native of Ichinomiya Town, who won the championship, said, "I'm honestly happy.
I think it was alive that I practiced to cope with any waves in this sea as much as possible even under the influence of the new coronavirus
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I will. "
Mahina Maeda, who won the women's championship, said, "I have returned to Japan from Hawaii with one goal of winning this tournament, so I am very happy to be represented in Japan at the World Championships."