The Parasports ball game, Boccia's Japan Championship, began in Aichi Prefecture, and Hidetaka Sugimura, who won the gold medal at the Tokyo Paralympic Games, advanced to the semi-finals on the 9th with all three qualifying league wins.
Boccia's Japan Championship, which was held for the first time in two years due to the influence of the new coronavirus, began on the 8th in Toyota City, Aichi Prefecture.
Boccia is a parasport designed for people with impaired motor function such as cerebral palsy, in which six red and six blue balls are thrown at each other to compete for how close they can be to a white target ball.
Top players from Japan, such as Sugimura, who won the first gold medal in Japan for the Tokyo Paralympics, participated in the tournament, and were divided into four classes according to the degree of disability to compete in the qualifying league.
Sugimura advanced to the semi-final on the 9th with a total victory of 5 to 1 in the first game, 15 to 0 in the second game, and 10 to 0 in the third game.
Sugimura said, "I thought it would be fun in the tingling sensation peculiar to the Japan Championships, but I haven't been able to make a convincing boccia because my condition hasn't improved so much. I want to win and move forward. "
In addition, Takayuki Hirose, a rival of the same class who won the bronze medal in the Tokyo Paralympic Games, also decided to advance to the semi-finals with all three wins.
The semi-finals and finals of the Japan Championships will be held on the 9th.