Aiko Sugihara, who participated in two consecutive Olympic games in gymnastics, will retire from the front line of the competition at the end of this month's All Japan Championships.
This was revealed by Sugihara on his SNS on the 8th.
Among them, Sugihara said, "We decided to make the all-Japan event-specific championship a" break "in our competitive life. Instead of using the word" retirement "dare, we will continue our activities as a performer so that people will know the charm of gymnastics. I want to do it, "and I will retire from the front line of the competition at the end of the All Japan Championships starting on the 18th of this month.
Sugihara is 22 years old from Osaka.
When he was in the 4th grade, he started playing in earnest.
He is good at balance beam and floor with his own instantaneous power and sense of balance, and contributed to the 4th place prize of the women's group at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics where he participated for the first time.
She is the first in the world to succeed in the technique of turning twice with one foot on the balance beam, and is named "Sugihara".
She participated in the Tokyo tournament last year, but after that she had a knee surgery in October and missed the All Japan Championship and last month's NHK Cup.
Sugihara is scheduled to play on the balance beam at her final tournament.