In the final of the intellectual disability class of the Tokyo Paralympic Games Women's 200m Individual Medley, Mami Inoue, 22 years old, who participated in the Paralympic Games for the first time, was 8th.
Inoue was diagnosed with ADHD = attention deficit / hyperactivity disorder at the age of 4, and this time he participated in the Paralympics for the first time in the class of intellectual disability.
On the 31st, she participated in the women's 200-meter individual medley intellectual disability class, and in the morning qualifying, she finished 7th overall with a time of 2: 36.60, breaking her own Japanese record of 0.39. I proceeded.
In the final, he swam at a faster pace than the qualifying, which broke the Japanese record in the first butterfly stroke, turned 50 meters in 7th place, and even in the subsequent backstroke, he flew at a pace that exceeded the Japanese record set in the qualifying.
After that, the speed slowed down a little and he was gradually separated from the top players in the world, but he showed his best swim to the end and finished in 8th place with a time of 2: 37.86.
The gold medal is Valeriia Shabalina of the Russian Paralympic Committee, the silver medal is Bethany Firth of the United Kingdom, and the bronze medal is also the United Kingdom.・ I was a Fiddes player.
"It was a fun Paralympic game to stay in the final."
Inoue recalled the race, saying, "I've fallen a little less than the qualifying time, but I swam tenaciously to the end."
After finishing his first appearance at the Paralympics, he said positively, "I think it's still far from a medal, but it was a fun Paralympic to stay in the final. I want to continue to break the Japanese record."