The Beijing Olympics representative selection for speed skating will open in Nagano City on the 29th, and on the first day, there will be a total of four events, including 500 meters for boys and girls.
Following the results of this season's World Cup, five speed skating representatives from the Beijing Olympics, including Miho Takagi and Nao Kodaira, have been confirmed as having met the selection criteria of the Japan Skating Federation.
At the representative selection meeting starting from the 29th at M-Wave in Nagano City, 10 events will be held in 3 days to select other players.
On the first day of the tournament, the 4th event will be held, of which Tatsuya Shinhama and Shigeko Mori have already confirmed the representative appointment for the men's 500 meters against the Japanese participation slot "3", so the selection meeting will be held. , It will be a battle over the remaining 1 slot.
Attention is 29-year-old Uma Murakami and 24-year-old Yamato Matsui.
Murakami has a world-class start dash, and this season's World Cup gradually moved up to 2nd place in Round 4.
Matsui, on the other hand, kept his center of gravity low and had a long slip in the latter half of the race.
At this representative selection meeting, except for Shinhama and Morishige, the top-ranked player who has broken the dispatch standard record of 34.68 seconds set by the Japan Skating Federation will be confirmed as a representative.
The girls are paying attention to the slip of Miho Takagi, a medium- and long-distance ace who won three medals at the previous Pyeongchang tournament.
We have already confirmed that we will be represented at 1000 meters and 1500 meters, but we are aiming to become a representative at 500 meters and 3000 meters.
In both cases, Takagi will be able to participate in up to 5 events at the Beijing tournament, including the women's team Pachute.