The men's 10,000 meters of speed skating at the Beijing Olympics was held, and Japan record holder Ryosuke Tsuchiya was in 11th place.
Sweden's Nils van der Poor, who won the gold medal, has set his own world record for more than two seconds.
Twelve people participated in the men's 10,000 meters of speed skating, and from Japan, Tsuchiya, who holds the Japanese record and ranked 10th in the previous tournament, participated.
Tsuchiya kept pace from the beginning with a good rhythm, and at the end of the difficult race, he showed a slip to raise the time of 400 meters per lap to the 30 seconds range, but he was 11th with a time of 13 minutes 2:49.
Tsuchiya "I don't regret doing my best"
Tsuchiya said, "I started the game thinking that I would regret it if I was halfway here in the last 5 laps. German Patrick Beckert who skated in the same group was also strong, but it was a fun game." I looked back.
He said with satisfaction, "I was able to shorten the time by 8 seconds from the previous tournament and showed growth for 4 years, and I think I was able to do my best and slip without regrets."
Gold medal breaks world record Sweden van der Pour
The gold medal is Sweden's Nils van der Poll, who set a record of 12 minutes 30 seconds 74, which shortened his world record by more than 2 seconds, and achieved the second crown following the men's 5000 meters.
The silver medal was Patrick Roest from the Netherlands and the bronze medal was Davide Ghiotto from Italy.
The Beijing Olympics speed skating competition has so far held six events for both men and women, and so far all the events have set Olympic records, one of which is a new world record.