The All-Japan Artistic Gymnastics Championship, which also serves as the representative selection for the Tokyo Olympics, was held in Takasaki City, Gunma Prefecture. Marked the top score.
The selection of men's gymnastics for the Tokyo Olympics will be based on the results of three tournaments: the All Japan Championship in April, the NHK Cup last month, and the All Japan Championships that started on the 5th.
Uchimura is aiming to be represented by the horizontal bar for each event, but through the three tournaments, only one person can participate from Japan in the individual quota for each Olympic event, including all six events.
Qualifying was held on the 5th of the tournament, and Uchimura took part in the horizontal bar performance.
Uchimura decided the big move of H difficulty at the beginning, Brett Schneider without mistake, and decided the following G difficulty and E difficulty letting go technique almost perfectly.
After that, Uchimura made a beautiful performance with his elbows and limbs stretched out almost perfectly until the final landing, marking a high score of 15.766, and was the top scorer with a big difference of nearly 1 point in 2nd place. I advanced to the final of the day.
Hidenobu Yonekura, a vaulter who is competing for personal quota, jumped the world's most difficult big skill "Yonekura", which he named himself, in the first of the two jumps, but the landing was disturbed.
The second landing was also disturbed, and he was second in this event with a score of 15.016.
The final will be held on the 6th, and after the competition, the athletes who have been nominated to represent the Tokyo Olympics will be decided.
Appeal with representatives from Tanigawa and Kitazono
In the qualifying on the 5th, Wataru Tanigawa, who is aiming to become a representative of the group, and Takeru Kitazono, who is 18 years old, both marked high scores in their specialty and appealed to the first representative.
Of the four men's teams, Daiki Hashimoto, who won the NHK Cup, and Kazuma Kaya, who finished second, have been decided, and the remaining two are based on the results of the three tournaments selected by the national team. It is decided by how much you can contribute to the score of.
Tanikawa, who is third in the NHK Cup, Kitazono, who won five gold medals at the Youth Olympic Games three years ago, and Tadashi Sugino, who is good at pommel horses and horizontal bars, are competing for the national team.
In the qualifying on the 5th, Tanikawa faced the 4th event, and among them, on the parallel bars, he decided the technique one after another with his powerful performance and marked a score of 14.833, appealing to the first Olympic representative.
On the other hand, Kitazono faced the fifth event, and among them, in the vault, he scored a high score of 15.000 by deciding the difficult big skill Lopez without mistake.
Even with parallel bars, he scored 15.033 and performed at a high level of 14 points or higher in all five events.
In addition, Sugino also marked 14.733, such as performing a series of letting go techniques with his favorite horizontal bar.
The final will be held on the 6th, and after the competition, the athletes who have been nominated to represent the Tokyo Olympics will be decided.