Momoka Muraoka, who is taking an unusual challenge to participate in the Tokyo Paralympics this summer on wheelchair racing and the Beijing Paralympics next year in alpine skiing, participated in the competition for the first time in two years and won the first race. Did.
The Para-Alpine Skiing Asian Cup, in which Muraoka participated, will start on the 9th in Sugadairakogen, Ueda City, Nagano Prefecture.
On the 9th of the first day, two men's and women's Super-G races were held, and Muraoka, who won five medals including the gold medal at the previous Pyeongchang Paralympics, participated in the women's sitting and sliding class.
Muraoka was trying to participate in the Tokyo Paralympic Games in a wheelchair track and field, so it was the first time in two years to participate in a ski competition, but in the first race held in the morning, he felt a strong sense of speed from the start. He showed a certain slip and won the championship with a time of 55.63, which was multiplied by a coefficient according to the obstacle, with a difference of 4 seconds or more to the 2nd place.
In the second race held in the afternoon, he lost his balance on the slope in the middle of the race and fell, and was abstained halfway.
Muraoka, who said that he faced the theme of "offensive skiing," said, "I was really nervous at the start, but I enjoyed the race for the first time in a long time," recalled the ski competition for the first time in two years.
Regarding the scene of the fall, he said positively, "I used to slow down and enter the defense, but today I took the plunge and slipped. The fall was the result of a challenge rather than a blank, so I think it will lead to the next." I did.
The tournament will be held until the 13th, and Muraoka will participate in Giant Slalom on the 10th.