The Japan Championships in Swimming, which will be the representative selection for the Tokyo Olympics, will begin on the 3rd at the Tokyo Aquatics Center, the venue for the Olympics.
On the first day of the tournament, the representative candidates will be decided in the third event for both men and women, such as the men's 400-meter individual medley.
This Japan Championship, which will be the representative selection for the Tokyo Olympics, is a "one-shot match" tournament in which if you break the standard dispatch record in the final and finish in 2nd place, you will be nominated as a representative of an individual event.
It will be held for eight days from the 3rd to the 10th of this month, and it is expected that more than 30 Olympic athletes will be decided during the tournament.
The venue, Tokyo Aquatics Center in Koto-ku, Tokyo, will be used during the Olympic Games and can accommodate 15,000 people, but to prevent infection, the tournament will be held without spectators, and the number of athletes participating will be larger than usual. The number is about 500, which is about 30% less.
On the first day of the tournament, the finals of the 3rd men's and women's events will be held, and in the men's 400-meter individual medley, Daiya Seto, who won the adult world championship, has been nominated as the representative, so the remaining 1 slot will be contested.
Kosuke Hagino, who won the gold medal at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics, will be absent.
In the morning, the women's 100-meter butterfly qualifying will be held, and Rikako Ikee, who has returned to the competition from leukemia, will participate.
NHK will broadcast the final race that the Olympic representative will decide.