Taiki Kawayoke, who has been appointed as the representative of the Beijing Paralympics next year, won the men's 5km classical at the All Japan Cross-Country Skiing Tournament and showed good adjustments.
Kawaseki finished 4th in the 2nd event at the World Cup held in Canada this month, and has been participating in the training camp for the Japanese national team in Asahikawa, Hokkaido since the 24th.
On the 26th, in order to confirm the current challenge of maintaining speed until the second half, I participated in the men's 5km classical, standing and skiing class of the All Japan Cross-Country Skiing Tournament for the Disabled, which has been held since the 25th in Asahikawa City. ..
In the race that laps four laps of the lap course, he showed a light footstep from the beginning, and there was no big stall at the end as "the body moved", and the time was multiplied by the coefficient according to the degree of obstacle and finished in 16 minutes 8 seconds 8. However, I won the championship with a big difference of more than 2 minutes over the 2nd place player.
Kawaki won the gold medal at the 2019 World Championship, but he will not participate in the World Championship in Norway next month, and will be training on snow in Japan at the beginning of the year for the Beijing Paralympics in March. It means working on strengthening physical strength.
"I think I can make good grades" for Kawaseki Beijing Para
Kawaki said, "I had the problem of stalling in the second half of the race, so I had the image of speeding up in the second half. I think I've achieved my goal, "he said, and he seemed satisfied with the race on the 26th.
For the Beijing Games, which will be the second Paralympic Games, "Four years ago it was a form that stalled, but after entering university, I increased the amount of practice, and the form and physical strength are completely different from four years ago. The rest If we can improve the point of stalling in the second half of the period, I think we can achieve good results. "