Para-badminton, a new competition for the Tokyo Paralympics, has received additional recommendation slots and three new athletes have been selected as representatives of the Tokyo Games in the singles event.

The representatives of para-badminton, which will be the first official competition at the Tokyo Paralympics, have been directly selected by the world rankings and additional recommendation slots have been assigned for each item.



The Japanese Para-Sports Federation got an additional recommendation frame for the third event, and on the 20th, the top three people in the world ranking for that event were recommended to the Japan Paralympics Committee and decided to be representatives.



The new representatives are Daiyu Imai, who is ranked 5th in the world ranking for men's singles with disabilities, Osamu Nagashima, who is ranked 9th in the world ranking for relatively severely disabled wheelchairs, and women's singles. Kaede Kameyama, who is ranked 4th in the world ranking in a class with a disability in his arms.



This brings the number of para-badminton representatives to 13 in the 12th event.

What is Daiyu Imai?

Daiyu Imai is 23 years old from Aichi prefecture.

It is the 5th place in the world ranking in the class of men's singles with disabilities.


The height is 1 meter and 75 centimeters, and it has a strong shot with a height.

Imai has a disability in his right arm, but he has been playing badminton since he was in elementary school.



I met para-badminton in my second year of high school, and I participated in the Japanese championship for the first time that year and won the championship, which attracted attention.

We will win a bronze medal at the 2017 World Championship and aim to win a medal at the Tokyo Paralympics.

What is Nagashima Osamu?

Osamu Nagashima is 41 years old from Saitama prefecture.

Men's singles, a relatively heavy class with wheelchair disabilities, ranks 9th in the world.


I started playing badminton when I was in junior high school, but when I was in college, I suffered a spinal cord injury and became a wheelchair, so I switched to para-badminton.

The characteristic is a feint play that pokes the opposite of the opponent with a shot that makes the strength of the wrist.

He has been active in domestic and international competitions for many years, winning a bronze medal in the men's singles at the 2018 Asian Para Games.


In addition, while continuing the competition, I am conducting research and development of coating technology to prevent the pottery from getting dirty in the workplace, and I am also active in my work such as obtaining patents.


At the Tokyo Paralympics, we aim to win medals.

What is Kaede Kameyama?

Kaede Kameyama is a 26-year-old from Miyagi prefecture, and is ranked 4th in the world ranking in the class of women's singles with disabilities.

He specializes in tenacious rallies and also has a special technique called a cross hairpin that drops the shuttle in front of the opponent's net.

He has the ability to win a bronze medal in this event at the adult world championships.


During the period when the Tokyo Paralympics were postponed for one year, we aimed to strengthen our physical strength by running, etc., and in addition to the tenacity of our characteristics, we also worked on the assembly of aggressive rallies.