At the Parasnow Sports World Championships held in Norway, Daichi Oguri and Masataka Oiwane, both of whom have been nominated as snowboard representatives for the Beijing Paralympics, finished in 4th place.
The tournament will be held in Norway for the first time by integrating the previously separate Paralympic Alpine and Nordic and the Snowboard World Championships, and will be held in March by athletes aiming for medals at the Beijing Paralympics. I have participated a lot.
On the 14th, a dual banked slalom was held in which two athletes slipped on a snowboard at the same time and competed in a tournament format.
In the class with severe foot disabilities, Oguri, who will participate in the second consecutive Paralympic Games, won the qualifying on the previous day, and in the quarterfinals of the first match on the 14th, he also beat the Dutch players to advance to the semifinals.
However, he lost to an American player in the semi-final and a Canadian player in the bronze medal match, and was unable to reach the medal and finished 4th.
In addition, Oiwane, a class with a disability in his arm, also beat the American player in the first quarter-final, but lost to the Italian player in the semi-final and the British player in the third-place playoff, and was fourth.
In the class with leg disabilities, Keiji Okamoto and Takahito Ichikawa participated in the final tournament, but both lost in the quarterfinals.
Shinji Tabuchi and Junta Kosuda, a class with severe foot disabilities, were eliminated in the qualifying session the day before.