The world championship of snowboarding started in Slovenia, and Tomoka Takeuchi, a silver medalist of the Sochi Olympics, participated in the women's parallel giant slalom and finished 7th.
The World Snowboard Championships kicked off on the 1st in Rogla, Slovenia, with a parallel giant slalom for men and women on the first day.
The parallel giant slalom is an event in which two athletes slide side by side at the same time to compete for time.The 37-year-old Takeuchi, who won the silver medal in this event of the Sochi Olympics, passed the qualifying in 6th place, and men and women Through this, we advanced to the final tournament where only one Japanese player and the top 16 players compete.
In the first round, Takeuchi rewound from the middle of the race by slipping deeply against a Swiss player who was 10 years younger than him, and advanced to the quarterfinals by competing by 0.09.
In the quarter-finals, he faced Germany's Selina Jörg, who won the silver medal at the Pyeongchang Olympics, and lost by 0.13.
Takeuchi missed the final four, but was seventh, surpassing the results of the 2017 tournament he participated in last time.
The gold medal is Germany's Jerk, who defeated Takeuchi in the quarterfinals, and is the second consecutive champion of the tournament.