Sani Brown Abdul Hakim, the first Japanese player to advance to the final in the men's 100 meters at the World Championships in Athletics in Oregon, USA, finished 7th with a time of 10 seconds 06. ..
Sani Brown "I want to revenge next year and win a medal"
After the race, Sani Brown Abdul Hakim recalled his run, saying, "I felt like I was exhausted in the semi-finals, and although my body movement was good, the final stuff was sweet."
He talked about his experience of the first final as a Japanese player with a fulfilling expression, "I want to use this as a basis for the world championship next year, so I want to revenge there again and win a medal." I was looking at it.
Sani Brown's first advance to the final and the 7th place factor
It's been 3 years since the impact of 9 seconds 97.
"Non-standard man" Sani Brown was the first Japanese player to advance to the final and finished in 7th place.
Last year, due to a back injury, Sani Brown spent an unwilling year, missing the 100-meter representative right at the Tokyo Olympics and finishing the qualifying in the 21-second range at 200 meters, which he should be good at. ..
I searched for the factors that made a wonderful revival from the remarks and races of this season.
Sani Brown, who attended the Japan Championships in June, revealed at a press conference before the tournament that he was suffering from back pain due to hernia last season. I expressed that pain.
In retrospect, he ran only one 100-meter race before the Japan Championships last season.
In a tailwind of 3.6 meters, he faced the Japan Championship with a pain of 10 seconds 25 and was unable to regain his original run, and in the final he missed the Olympic title in 6th place at 10 seconds 29.
However, this season when the pain healed, he entered his first race in March and marked 10 seconds 15 in a tailwind of 0.4 meters.
Even in 2019, which marked 9 seconds 97, it was a good start considering that it was 10 seconds 30 in the first outdoor race in March.
After that, in April, he participated in four races before the Japan Championship, such as running at 10 seconds 08 in a tailwind of 2.1 meters and marking 10 seconds 0 for the first time in 3 years.
By repeatedly running in actual battles with his body in perfect condition, he regained his intuition and sharpness of his original body.
Sani Brown, who has been attracting attention since he was a teenager, is said to be "non-standard" for his stride running from a large body with a height of 1 meter and 90 centimeters, but he is by no means a dexterous player.
He entered the University of Florida in the United States in 2017, and since moving to the United States, he has been reviewing his running from the beginning in an environment where Olympic medalists are naturally next door.
Among the professional teams he belongs to, he is one of the world's top class players, including Trayvon Bromell of the United States, who is the sixth-ranked teammate in the world at 9.76, and Andre De Grasse of Canada, who won the gold medal at the men's 200 meters at the Tokyo Olympics last year. By practicing hard with the athletes of the Olympic Games, I have refined the long-lasting running of the latter half, which is a characteristic of the team.
When I answered an interview with NHK last March, he said with a smile, "I feel like I'm moving my body every day. When I get home, I take a shower and live in bed." It can be said that the days of struggling to fill the gap in power with the medalists by pushing the body to the point of suffering from unprecedented muscle pain have finally come to fruition.
And even though the start, which has been an issue for a long time, has been misunderstood at this tournament.
The reaction time of the men's 100-meter qualifying was 0 seconds 112, the third fastest time among the 24 people who passed the qualifying, and the semi-final was also 0 seconds 124, which was as responsive as the top players in the world. ..
Three years ago, in the 100-meter semi-final of the World Championship held in Doha in 2019, he missed the final with a reaction time of 0 seconds 206 due to a painful mistake saying "I could not hear the start sound".
He learned with one concentration and overcame the challenges in three years, leading to the feat of being the first Japanese player to advance to the final in this event, the world championship.
Still 23 years old.
“It's interesting that I don't know how to grow,” he says, “a non-standard man” has made a big leap toward his goal of being the “best player in the world”.
"Non-standard man" Sani Brown's vocabulary
Various words spoken by Sani Brown in previous NHK interviews.
Here are some of the most impressive ones.
[April 2019]
"I'm still wondering what kind of view it will be like standing on the podium at the Olympics. If you aim, it's the pinnacle."
This interview was conducted by Sani Brown in the race that marked the 9-second range for the first time. About 2 weeks ago.
In the year before him (2018), he hurt the muscles behind his right thigh and spent most of the season rehabilitating, but when he healed his injury and heard his thoughts on the Tokyo Olympics, he was confident. I made a lot of statements.
Two months after this interview, Sani Brown set a new Japanese record of 9.97 seconds at the National University Championships.
[June 2019]
"I think that if you do what you normally do, you will get 9 seconds 8 at all."
This word came out at the 2019 Japan Championships.
He was shortly after achieving the double crown of 100 meters and 200 meters.
Normally, Sani Brown doesn't talk much about the target time, but after thinking a little about the question "How long do you think you can run if you have the best run?" In an interview after the tournament, "9 seconds 8 is not at all. I will come out. "
Isn't it really possible if we overcome the start of the task?
The momentum of Sani Brown at that time was tremendous.
[February 2020]
"If it's 9 seconds 97, I think it's still in the 9 seconds range, which is an error level.
February, when everyone thought that the Tokyo Olympics would start in July 2020.
Sani Brown, who had been practicing in Florida, said with his eyes shining, "The clear goal is still a gold medal" toward the dream stage that should be approaching.
The word "9 seconds 97 is an error level" that came out because of looking at a high goal.
There, I could see the desire to break the Japanese record at once and be on par with the world's strongest players.
[March 2021]
"I may feel a difference at first, but if there is a difference, I can practice harder. That suits me better."
After the postponement of the Tokyo Olympics was decided, Sani Brown Decided to join the professional team in July.
In an environment where the team has many Olympic and world championship medalists, he says that he could barely keep up with his daily practice at first, but that was Sani Brown.
He immediately motivated him, saying, "Because I'm the same person, I didn't shrink so much."
However, while his daily practice brought him to the highest level of strength and quality in the world, his body screamed and developed a hernia.
Due to his pain in his lower back and legs, he was unable to demonstrate his abilities at the Japan Championships and the Tokyo Olympics.
[June 2022]
"I sometimes think that the short-distance world in Japan is still a bird in a basket."
This season, with the regret of last season in mind.
Sani Brown, who said that his pain had healed at the beginning of the year, energetically participated in the race from early spring and won the Japan Championship for the first time in three years.
I grabbed the ticket for the world championship.
This was the word that came out when I was talking about the difference between the levels of Japan and the world in an interview right after the tournament.
"It's always said by teammates and coaches that you can't do it in a comfortable place. It's most important to try new things more and more, and the players who can perform their own performance flexibly in any situation are the world championships. I always see and feel that I'm going to stay in the finals. ”
It's common for top Japanese sprinters to go on to a Japanese university and then work as a business team or professional. , Sani Brown went to America alone as a teenager and has taken an unprecedented path.
It may be that we want more players to fly to the world because we feel the rigor of fighting in the world more than anyone else.