Ayano Tsujiuchi, who participated for the first time in the Tokyo Paralympic Games Women's 400m Freestyle Visually Impaired Class, was 8th.
Tsujiuchi, a 24-year-old, was diagnosed with a progressive intractable disease that causes vision loss and visual field abnormalities when he was in the first year of college.
Tsujiuchi participated in the women's 400-meter freestyle class with the lightest visual impairment, and in the qualifying held in the morning, he was 8th overall with a time of 4: 49.96, which set his own Japanese record for more than 2 seconds. I entered and proceeded to the final.
In the final, he showed an aggressive swim from the beginning, and although the pace slowed down a little in the middle stage, he swam tenaciously to the end and set a time of 4 minutes 50 seconds 01, which is close to 5/100 seconds of the Japanese record set in the qualifying. It was a place.
The gold medal was Anna Stetsenko of Ukraine, the silver medal was Carlotta Gilli of Italy, and the bronze medal was Katya Dedecent of Australia.
Tsujiuchi "Second personal best update and final advance goal"
Tsujiuchi recalled, "I had a lot of breathing and it was a bit disappointing time, but I was able to race in my own way."
Tsujiuchi is planning to participate in the second event, saying, "I think that being able to update the time including the period when you can not practice at all due to the state of emergency etc. will lead to the race after that. Personal best update and advance to the final I want to do my best to clear all the goals. I want to hold a race that is so big under these circumstances, and I want to express my gratitude to everyone who cooperates with it. " rice field.