Takaharu Furukawa, an individual male archery at the Tokyo Olympics, won the second bronze medal following the men's group at this tournament.

The reason for the victory was the "corrective power" from the bottom.

46th out of 64

Furukawa attended the Olympic Games for the fifth consecutive tournament.

As a result, he won two medals, but the start was the "worst" one he said.



In the ranking round on the first day to decide the opponents of groups and individuals, 46th out of 64 people, the lowest among the Japanese.

It was a real result for a veteran who has won a silver medal at the London 2012 Games.

After the match, I couldn't even find a solution, saying, "It didn't work at all. I'm looking for what went wrong."



Fortunately for Furukawa, he still had time to fix the bad form.

As a result of sinking to the bottom in the ranking round, the members of the "mixed group" on the next day when the top Japanese men and women participated were omitted, and there was a two-day "correction period" until the next match for the men's group.



Furukawa calls the coaches and coaches who usually receive guidance in Osaka.

It was pointed out that the cause of the malfunction was that the angle of the right hand pulling the bow was different from usual.



Furukawa, who immediately started to correct the form, continued shooting arrows endlessly for two days at the practice field adjacent to the venue, checking the basics such as posture and line of sight one by one.



The team battle on the 26th.

"I was able to fix it well by combining it with my experience so far," and demodulated brilliantly, winning the first bronze medal.

60 shots that triggered

Furthermore, Furukawa's "corrective power" was demonstrated in the individual competition on the 31st.


The point was about four hours between the third round, which started before 11:00 am, and the quarterfinals, which took place around 3:30 pm.

Furukawa won the third round, but he couldn't shoot the arrow at the right time and couldn't get on the wave with some shots staying at 8 points.


Even under these circumstances, instead of just waiting for the next game, I spent a limited amount of time saying, "I have no choice but to practice," and started to make corrections.



I was conscious of the stability of the hand opposite to the previous one, that is, the left hand opposite to pulling the bow called "pushing hand".

While receiving advice from the coach near me, I checked each form again and shot 60 arrows in a limited time.


The practice was finished about 20 minutes before the scheduled start time of the match.

I worked on the correction to the last minute.

Furukawa, who adjusted for a slight deviation, showed a misunderstanding, with 6 out of 9 marking a perfect score of 10 in the quarterfinals.



Although he lost to the following semi-finals, he won the bronze medal match.

It was a bronze medal that produced "corrective power" in a short time.



Furukawa started from the bottom, but when he finished, he was the only Japanese archery player to win two medals.

In an interview after all the competitions, he said, "I was able to confirm that I had to shoot this way in the last practice," and said that the practice that went to the last minute led to the medal.



Behind the strength on the big stage, I felt that there was a high "corrective power" that could not be expressed by the word "experience", and an incessant ambition to practice for one shot that was convincing until the very end. ..