Sena Tomita won the bronze medal in her second appearance at the Beijing Olympics Snowboard Women's Halfpipe.

Behind the fact that she was the first Japanese girl to win a medal in this event was the success of her technique "1080" (Ten Eighty), which makes three turns next to her.

"1080" is the key to advance to the top

Tomita brought the technique "1080" that makes three horizontal turns in two of the three runs in the final.



And all of them succeeded and the score increased.



In the half pipe, the horizontal rotation speed is expressed by a number, and the actual rotation speed is added based on 360 degrees.



For example, 360 + 180 = "540" (Five Forty) for one and a half rotations, "720" (Seven Twenty) for two rotations, and "1080" for three rotations.



The technique that players actually show in the game is to combine the direction of the foot and the number of rotations when entering the air, such as combining "front side" and "1080" that rotate from the normal stance to "front side 1080". Be expressed.



At the women's international competition, this "1080" holds the key to advance to the top, and the same development took place on the Olympic stage.

Successful in the preserving final in qualifying

In the best score of the 12 people who advanced to the final, only 3 people incorporated "1080".



Chloe Kim, Tomita of the United States, who won the gold medal following the Pyeongchang tournament, and Elizabeth Hosking of Canada, who finished in 6th place.



Of these, Kim showed a special performance that included the highly complete "1080" twice.



Tomita saved up to two and a half revolutions in the qualifying on the 9th, and in the final, he succeeded in "Front Side 1080" which rotates from the normal stance with the first and second final air as aimed.



The number of revolutions will increase and the risk of failure will increase, but we have organized it neatly until landing.

On the other hand, Mitsuki Ono, who missed the medal in 9th place, challenged "Cab 1080" to step on with the opposite foot to his dominant foot, but failed to land and could not improve the score.



Ono accepted, "I was confident and tried to stand up, but I couldn't stand up. This is my current ability."

The background of the high score is the success of "1080"

The score of the half pipe depends not only on the number of revolutions, but also on the height, how to grab the board, and whether or not to decide the landing, but this time, the background that Tomita was able to mark a high score is "1080". There was success.



Tomita, who succeeded in "1080" twice at the Olympics, recalled, "It was great that I was able to decide my routine from the first time. By doing so, I was able to perform aggressively from the second time onward."



Furthermore, in the final third performance, he showed an attitude of taking on challenges for the future, such as issuing "1080" from the air at the beginning.



She wasn't successful with Air, but she smiled at this event, winning the first medal for a Japanese girl.