The skating club of Nidec Sankyo, which has produced many Olympic medalists such as speed skating Hiroyasu Shimizu and Nana Takagi, will be abolished at the end of this month.
This was announced by Nidec Sankyo on the 1st.
According to that, the skating club will be abolished on the 31st of this month.
Nidec Sankyo's skating club was founded in 1957 as the Sankyo Seiki skating club, and has produced many top speed skating players.
Hiroyasu Shimizu won the gold medal at the 1998 Nagano Winter Olympics at the men's 500m.
Keiichiro Nagashima, who won the silver medal at the men's 500m at the 2010 Vancouver Games, and Joji Kato, who won the bronze medal, were members of the skating club when they became medalists.
Currently, among the eight players he belongs to, Nana Takagi, who won two gold medals at the Pyeongchang Games four years ago and a silver medal at the Beijing Games last month, is also included.
Nidec Sankyo will explain the reason for the abolition of the skate club in the future, considering the lack of strong leaders who lead the world in Japan and the decrease in the competitive population of the younger generation who aim to become athletes. It is said that there is no prospect for the original purpose of contributing to the development of the competition.
At Nidec Sankyo, we will support the transferees of the athletes they belong to if they continue to compete, and will continue to hire them as employees if they retire.
In addition, Momoka Horikawa, a third-year high school student who participated in the Beijing Olympics, was scheduled to join after graduating from high school. I am.