The final target race for selecting the Tokyo Olympics representatives for triathlon women was held in the United Kingdom, and Yuko Takahashi was ranked 22nd among the top Japanese athletes.
Takahashi has already met the selection criteria of the Japan Triathlon Union and has become a leading candidate for the Olympic team.
The world's best world series, which will be the final target race for selecting the Tokyo Olympics representatives for triathlon women, was held in Leeds, England on the 6th.
The race was contested by a swim that swims 1.5km, a bike that runs 37.9km by bicycle, and a run that runs 10km, and five athletes from Japan participated.
Yuko Takahashi moved up the rankings on the bike while the Japanese were able to make a difference from the swim to the top, and the last run was sticky, and the time of 1 hour 59 minutes 50 seconds made him 22nd in the top of the Japanese players.
The winner was Maya Kingma of the Netherlands.
This is the end of the women's selection race, and Takahashi, who finished 15th in the world series held in Hamburg, Germany in 2019 and meets the selection criteria of the Japan Triathlon Union, has become the most promising candidate for the Olympic team. It was.
At present, there are only two slots for Japanese women to participate in the Tokyo Olympics, and the representative players will be decided by the board of directors of the Japan Triathlon Union on the 22nd of this month based on the races to be selected so far.