The World Swimming Championships began in Budapest, Hungary, and Yukiko Inui advanced to the final with the top score in the first event of the tournament, Artistic Swimming and Solo Technical Routine Qualifying.
The World Swimming Championships is an international competition in which the world's top athletes participate, and this time it will be held in Budapest, Hungary because the originally planned holding in Fukuoka City was postponed due to the influence of the new coronavirus. I did.
On the 17th, the qualifying for artistic swimming was held, and Inui, the representative of the Tokyo Olympics, participated in the solo technical routine from Japan.
Inui made a mark of 91.9189 and advanced to the final with the top score in the qualifying, while strong Russian players did not participate.
The competition began on the 18th, with Yui Ohashi, who won the gold medal in the second individual medley of the Tokyo Olympics, the men's 200-meter butterfly, Tomoru Honda, the silver medal, and Seto, who won the second individual medley in the previous competition. Daiya and others will participate.
In addition, Rikuto Tamai, a first-year high school student who won the prize for the first time in 21 years as a Japanese player in the 7th place in the men's high school diving at the Tokyo Olympics, will participate in the diving starting on the 26th.