The Para-Alpine Skiing World Cup kicked off in Austria, and Momoka Muraoka, who is aiming for the gold medal for the second consecutive tournament at the Beijing Paralympics, won the sitting-sliding class at the Super-G Women's Super-G.
The opening round of this season's World Cup in Para Alpine Skiing was held on the 7th of the first day of the tournament in Austria, where two super-G races were held for both men and women.
Muraoka won five medals, including a gold medal, at the Pyeongchang Paralympics and participated in the summer Tokyo Paralympics on land.
Muraoka, who has already been appointed as the representative of the Beijing Paralympics, is a class where girls sit and slide, and in the first race, the time multiplied by a coefficient according to the degree of disability marked 1 minute 6:02 and Barbara in the Netherlands.・ I came in second after Van Bergen and won the second race with a time of 1'0.44.
Before the tournament, Muraoka, who had been devoting himself to track and field until September, said, "I'm worried if I can regain the feeling of racing because there is a blank," but it is off to a good start toward the Beijing Paralympics in March next year. have become.
After the race, Muraoka said, "In the first overseas race in three years, I was nervous and stiff, but in the second, I was able to take advantage of my reflection and skate as hard as I could. I want to improve my condition for the Beijing tournament. "
In the men's sitting and sliding class, veteran Taiki Morii, who won four silver medals and one bronze medal at the Paralympics and has been appointed as the representative of the Beijing Paralympics, finished second in both the first and second times.
The winners were all Norwegian Jesper Pedersen.