The world championship of speed skating opens in Norway on the 3rd, and in the men of "Sprint" who decides the best short distance in the world, Wataru Morishige who won the bronze medal at 500 meters of the Beijing Olympics is 15th overall, Tatsuya Shinhama Was ranked 5th overall.
The World Championships in Speed Skating will be held from 3 to 4 days.
The competition was held after the International Skating Union announced on the 1st of this month that Russia and Belarus would not be allowed to participate in international competitions following the military invasion of Ukraine by Russia. There will be a "sprint" where you will skate 1000 meters twice and compete for the championship in the overall results.
Two boys and three girls from Japan faced the sprint, of which Morishige, who won the bronze medal at the 500 meters of the Beijing Games, participated, and the first 500 meters was fifth with a time of 34.89 seconds. have become.
However, at 1000 meters, he finished 20th with a time of 1'11.96 and finished 15th overall with a total of 70.870 points for the second event.
Shinhama, who is aiming to be the best in the world in the sprint for the first time in two seasons, finished second in the first 500 meters, and in the following 1000 meters, he was eighth, but overall fifth.
After the first day of the women's race, Rio Yamada is 8th overall, Arisa Tsujimoto is 12th overall, and Maki Tsuji is 14th overall.
* Miho Takagi and Nao Kodaira have not participated in the women's sprint of this tournament.