Daichi Oguri was 5th and Junta Kosuda 7th in the Beijing Paralympics, Snowboard, and Men's Snowboard Cross classes with severe foot disabilities.
Starting from the quarterfinals on the 7th, four people will slide all at once on a course with obstacles such as humps, curves, and jumping hills, and the top two people in each group will advance to the next round. Was done up to.
Former professional snowboarder Oguri, after finishing 7th in this event at the Pyeongchang Games, changed the position of his foot called "stance" and put his right foot side of his prosthesis in front of him for the second Paralympic Games. I attended this tournament.
In the semi-finals, he tried to overtake the leading player from the inside in the middle stage, but he lost his balance on the way and became 4th in this group, so he did not advance to the final.
In the ranking match after this, he finished at the top, raised the ranking from the Pyeongchang tournament, and achieved the 5th place prize.
On the other hand, Junta Kosuda was defeated in the semi-finals, saying, "I was nervous and couldn't get ahead because of my strength, the start," and finished in 7th place.
The gold medal was Tyler Turner of Canada, the silver medal was Mike Schultz of the United States, and the bronze medal was Wu Zhongwei of China.
Oguri "Enjoy your own slip"
Daichi Oguri said that he lost his balance in the middle of the run, "I tried to forcefully enter from the inside of the player running in front, but I made a mistake because the opponent tightened. I am disappointed that I can not win." I was talking.
In the ranking match after the semi-final, he finished at the top and finished in 5th place, saying, "I'm glad I was able to enjoy myself and slip and finish at the top." ..
After the Pyeongchang tournament, he said that he changed the position of his foot called "stance" and went to this tournament, saying, "I think it's obviously faster, so I made the right choice."
Kosuda "I want to update myself and connect to the next"
Junta Kosuda, who lost in the semi-finals, said, "I think this is my ability in the current situation. I was so nervous that I wasn't usually able to get ahead at the start, which is my strength." rice field.
He also mentioned that he participated in the land at the Tokyo Paralympics last year, saying, "I have been practicing with a strong awareness of medals since I experienced the Tokyo Games, but I felt that I was still not at the top of the world, so I updated myself. I want to let you connect to the next one. "
Oguri Challenge with a new slip created over 4 years
Oguri, the captain of the Japanese snowboard team, is the only snowboarder to experience the last Pyeongchang tournament.
At the last tournament, I was 7th on the snowboard cross, and I couldn't slide as I expected.
Oguri, who was once a professional snowboarder, immediately decided to "put on a prosthesis and try snowboarding again" after losing his right leg in an accident at work nine years ago, and from there he para-snowboarded. As a leading figure in snowboarding, he has paved the way for himself.
Oguri, who has been refining his skiing through repeated trial and error because his right foot has become a prosthesis, renewed after the Pyeongchang tournament, which ended in a disappointing result, "to slip faster". I decided to take on a challenge.
It is a change in the position of the foot called a "stance".
We changed from the "regular stance" centered on the right foot, which had been around for nearly 20 years before the loss of the right foot in an accident, to the "goofy stance" centered on the left foot.
Oguri, who dared to take on the same changes as starting snowboarding from scratch, took on the challenge of skateboarding in the off-season and spent four years creating new skates by refining his prosthesis and how to use his body. I did.
Four years after the big decision to change the slip from scratch, he didn't reach the medal, but he finished at the top of the rankings and finished fifth.