Tomoa Narasaki, a Japanese male ace of sports climbing, has revealed that he will concentrate on bouldering and lead in the future and will not participate in the speed that set his own climbing method and set a Japanese record.

This is to aim for a gold medal at the Paris Olympics three years later.

Sport climbing was contested for the overall results of speed, bouldering, and lead at the Tokyo Olympics, which was held for the first time, but at the Paris Olympics three years later, it is divided into the "composite" that competes for the overall results of bouldering and lead, and the second type of speed. It is supposed to be.



Narasaki, who was in 4th place aiming for the gold medal at the Tokyo Olympics, responded to an interview online on the 13th, and will concentrate on bouldering and strengthening the lead in order to aim for the gold medal more surely at the Paris Olympics, and will not participate in speed. Clarified.



Narasaki has set a unique climbing method called "Tomore Skip" at speed to set a time to reach the top of the world, and he said that he decided to give up, "I feel sad, but I am aiming for bouldering and lead. I gave up thinking that I didn't have enough time to reach it. I had a habit of climbing at speed in the lead, so I would like to improve it from now on. "

World Championship from 16th

Narasaki said that the world championships to be held in Moscow from the 16th will be the first race after the Olympics, "I want you to see how you enjoy climbing and climbing freely without being bound by anything. I want to do it. "



The Japanese national team is scheduled to participate in the world championships with 13 people, and boy Kokoro Fujii said, "When I saw the Olympics, I strongly wanted to feel the tension that I wouldn't know if I wasn't there three years later. I want to ride in the middle of the podium. "



In addition, female player Futaba Ito said that she had a strained right elbow injury a month ago and said, "I'm not in the best condition, but I want to advance to the final."