Para-swimming men's 100-meter breaststroke Naohide Yamaguchi breaks world record

Para-swimming men's 100-meter breaststroke Naohide Yamaguchi breaks world record November 7, 20:10

A para-swimming record meeting was held in Miyagi prefecture, and in the men's 100-meter breaststroke and intellectual disability class, 20-year-old Naohide Yamaguchi set a time of 1 minute 4:13 and set his own world record. did.

Due to the spread of the new coronavirus infection, domestic para-swimming competitions have been canceled one after another at the end of January, but the competition group has the opportunity to let the athletes demonstrate the results of their practice. In order to make it, we held an official record meeting for the first time in about 10 months after thoroughly taking measures against infection.

The record meeting will be held in Rifu Town, Miyagi Prefecture for two days, and on the 7th of the first day, 20-year-old Yamaguchi, who is a world record holder and has been appointed as the representative of the Tokyo Paralympics, will be in the men's 100-meter breaststroke intellectual disability class. Naohide has appeared.

Yamaguchi is a dynamic swimr who makes use of his height of 1 meter 87 cm, and when he turns back 50 meters in the first half at a pace that exceeds the world record, he finishes in the second half without slowing down, exceeding his own record by 0.82 seconds 1 He set a world record by setting a time of 4 seconds and 13 seconds.

In addition, in the women's 50-meter backstroke motor dysfunction class, Miyuki Yamada, a second-year junior high school student in Niigata Prefecture who has disabilities in both hands and feet, is the new Japanese player at 1: 11.25, which is equivalent to a silver medal at last year's world championship. Marked the record.

Yamaguchi "Set a new world record in next year's Para"

Yamaguchi, who broke his own world record, said, "I was nervous after a long time, but I think I was able to make use of what I practiced during the self-restraint period. I will also break the world record at the Tokyo Paralympics next year. I'm still feeling the same, so I'd like to keep that feeling in the next year. "

Yamaguchi, who just celebrated his 20th birthday last month, said, "I feel that I have joined the ranks of adults and have grown in terms of records. I have always reconsidered what I can do at the Tokyo tournament. I want to work with the feeling that I will never forget my original intentions. "