On the 16th, the NHK Cup gymnastics, which also served as the representative of the Tokyo Olympics, was held for men, and 19-year-old Daiki Hashimoto won the championship for the first time.


Hashimoto and Kazuma Kaya, who are in second place, have been appointed as representatives of the Tokyo Olympics.

The NHK Cup for gymnastics was held in Nagano City as a representative selection for the Tokyo Olympics, and a men's competition was held on the 16th.



The tournament was held with the points of the All Japan Championship last month carried over.



Hashimoto, who won the All Japan Championship, scored in the latter half of the 14-point range for his second event, a beautiful performance with his legs straightened by the pommel horse, which was his task.


After that, he jumped the difficult "Lopez" with his favorite vault and got a high score in the 15-point range.


The landing was disturbed on the following parallel bars, but the last horizontal bar finished the performance without major mistakes and won the first victory with a total score of 259.530 with the All Japan Championship.



Second place is Kaya, who won the All Japan Championship last year, and Hashimoto and Kaya have been nominated as two of the four representative members of the Tokyo Olympics group.



Wataru Tanigawa was third, and Takeru Kitazono, who injured his right elbow at the All Japan Championship, was ninth.



The remaining two representative members of the group and the representatives for each event will be decided by the results up to next month's All Japan Championships.

What is Daiki Hashimoto?

Daiki Hashimoto is 19 years old from Chiba prefecture.

At the age of six, I started doing gymnastics under the influence of my two older brothers.


It combines dynamic performance with beautiful performance that extends to the tips of the limbs, and is good at pommel horses, vaults, and horizontal bars.


He was selected as a representative of the world championships as a high school student, and contributed to winning the bronze medal of the Japanese group in the actual performance.

In the All Japan Championship last month, mistakes continued in the qualifying and it started in 7th place, but in the final, it was a big skill of G difficulty, "Ri Jong Son", etc. I did it without making a big mistake and won the first victory in the reversal.



After the tournament, I did not get tired for a while and made adjustments with the highest priority on regaining condition.

In this tournament, one of the points is to stably finish the second pommel horse, which has been making mistakes since last year's actual battle, and I am enthusiastic to score points at once with the third pommel horse, parallel bars, and horizontal bar in the second half. Was talking.



In addition, he said, "I definitely want to be the representative in 1st place and contribute to winning the Olympic gold medal as a Japanese ace."

What is Kazuma Kaya?

Gymnastics Kazuma Kaya is 24 years old from Chiba prefecture. He specializes in events such as "pommel horse" and "parallel bars" with stable performance with few mistakes, and in the 2015 All Japan Championship, where he participated in the first year of university, he was ranked 6th overall and was selected as the representative of the world championship for the first time. It was.



In the world championships, when he contributed to the victory of the Japanese group, he won the bronze medal by deciding the difficult technique without mistake in the "pommel horse" by event.


The Rio de Janeiro Olympics was a substitute member, and although I accompanied him to the site, I was not able to participate.



With the regrets of that time in mind, he continued to grow even after the Olympics and became a central player to play the role of the Japanese national team. I came in 6th place.


In the domestic tournament, he won the All Japan Championship last December for the first time.