On the 28th, the International Gymnastics Federation announced that Kohei Kameyama, a boy, and Urara Ashikawa, a girl, have won the right to participate in the Tokyo Olympics based on the results of the World Cup by event.
First appearance in both Olympics
The World Cup by event is a tournament held in Qatar until the 26th, and eight tournaments that also serve as individual qualifiers for the Tokyo Olympics have ended, and on the 28th, the International Gymnastics Federation has the right to participate in the Olympics based on the results of those eight tournaments. Announced the players who won.
According to this, Kameyama won the right to participate in the men's pommel horse, and Ashikawa won the right to participate in the Tokyo Olympics on the women's balance beam.
Both will be their first Olympic appearances.
The representatives of the Tokyo Olympics for gymnastics are four representative members of each of the men's and women's groups, and Kohei Uchimura has been appointed as the representative of the horizontal bar for each men's event.
On the other hand, Hidenobu Yonekura, a vaulter who competed with Uchimura for the position of representative at the domestic representative selection, could not get the right to participate.
Pommel horse specialist Kameyama
Kohei Kameyama is 32 years old from Miyagi prefecture.
At the age of four, he started playing at a local gymnastics club and practiced at Saitama Sakae High School and Sendai University.
He has a magnificent turn with a pommel horse, and won a gold medal at the 2013 World Championship with a pommel horse by event.
In 2014, we contributed to the group's silver medal.
I had never participated in the Olympics before, but as a pommel horse specialist, I hoped to participate in the Olympics with good results at the World Cup from 2019, which also served as a qualifying for the individual quota of the Tokyo Olympics.
Ashikawa with a great sense of balance
Urara Ashikawa is 18 years old from Shizuoka prefecture. From an early age, I started competing with my two older sisters in a local gymnastics class, and with an outstanding sense of balance, I have been doing big tricks of F difficulty on the balance beam since I was in elementary school.
And I finished 3rd in the balance beam of the All Japan Championships that I participated in in the second year of junior high school.
In the World Cup from 2019, which also served as a qualifying round for the Tokyo Olympics, he won three tournaments and was very close to his first Olympic appearance.