On the 5th, the final day of the race for the FINA World Championships was held, and Naoki Mizunuma was nominated as the representative for the men's 100-meter butterfly stroke, which set a new Japanese record.


On the other hand, Rikako Ikee was first in the women's 100-meter butterfly, but she couldn't break the standard dispatch record and she missed the job offer.

The upcoming World Championships and Asian Games representative selection will be held from the 2nd of this month at the Tokyo Tatsumi International Swimming Center in Koto-ku, Tokyo, and the top two people who broke the Japan Swimming Federation's standard dispatch record in the final race. Will be unofficially decided to be the representative of the individual event.


On the 5th of the last day, 10 events were held for both men and women.



Of these, Mizunuma, the representative of the Tokyo Olympics, participated in the men's 100-meter butterfly final.


Mizunuma returned to 3rd place in the 50 meters in the first half, caught up with a strong swim in the second half, and finally became the 1st place in the time to break the Japanese record of 50 seconds 86, and was appointed as a representative.



Mizunuma said, "I was able to train to put out the 50-second range, so the result led to a record. If I can put out the 50-second range constantly, I think I will be closer to the medalist of the international competition." ..



On the other hand, although Ikee participated in the final of the women's 100-meter dash and took first place, her time was 57.89, which did not reach the dispatch standard record of 57.79.


Ikee was unable to break the dispatch standard record for her individual event in all three events she participated in in this representative selection.



In addition, although she broke the standard dispatch record for relay events, Ikee was no longer represented in the world championships because there were not four members who met the standards.



Ikee said, "This event is my specialty, and I was really strengthening it, so at the end I went to the race with a strong feeling. It was a mentally driven game that I had never experienced before. I think it's a test for myself, and I just practice so that I don't experience the same kind of suffering. "

Ikee: Improving "technical capabilities" for the Paris Olympics two years from now

In addition, Rikako Ikee said that it is essential to improve "technical capabilities" in anticipation of the Paris Olympics two years from now.



As a result of analysis that Ikee, who is enrolled in the sports science department of Nihon University, is studying her own swimming, she said, "When I graphed power and swimming power, my technical ability was low and power was high." It's called.



By accumulating training on how much power can be exerted in the water in the process of returning to competition after treatment for leukemia, "I am practicing like before, so I can not be growing up." I was proud that I had reached the point where I could say that.



However, she couldn't get the time she wanted at this representative selection, and there were times when she couldn't hold back her tears because of the regrets of the race.



She found that she did not reach the standard dispatched record for individual events for only 0 seconds and 1 on the 5th, but after the race she seemed calm and she calmly analyzed her swim and the task of looking ahead to the Paris Olympics. I gave "technical power" to.



Ikee said, "This time it was a selection event, so I was caught up in the time, but I think I will live in the future. I just practice so that I will not experience the same kind of suffering. If you raise the score, you should be able to swim to the point where you can aim for a world record. "