An Nishida, a 25-year-old who participated in the Paralympic Games for the first time, finished 8th in the Tokyo Paralympic Games 50m Butterfly Men's Class with Motor Dysfunction with a time of 37.98.
Nishida, who celebrated his 25th birthday on the 3rd, has short right legs and left arms since he was born, and started swimming when he was in elementary school. He made his first appearance at the Paralympics in this tournament.
In the women's 50-meter butterfly qualifying held on the morning of the 3rd, she advanced to the final in 7th place overall with a time of 38.39 seconds.
In the final, he got off to a good start and was ranked high in the early stages, but gradually dropped in the ranking after the middle stage.
Even so, when the pool could not be used due to the spread of the new coronavirus, Nishida, who had thoroughly trained his short left arm, which had been a weak point, through strength training, showed a hard swim using both arms until the end. He finished in 37.98, faster than the qualifying, and finished in 8th place.
Canada's 18-year-old Danielle Dorris, who broke the world record following the qualifying with a gold medal of 32.99, the silver medal was Mallory Wedgeman of the United States, and the bronze medal was Giulia Terzi of Italy.
Nishida "I'm disappointed that I couldn't get results for 5 years."
An Nishida said, "I'm glad I got the time up from the qualifying, but I'm full of regret that I didn't reach the target time. I've been working hard for this day for five years since the Rio de Janeiro Games, but today's result came out. I'm really disappointed that I didn't have it. "
On the other hand, he also showed his motivation for the future, saying, "I can enjoy the game itself, and I have put out all the power I can put out, so I have no regrets. I have done everything I can do, so I want to do my best again today."