Competitive swimmer Rikako Ikee participated in a short-course competition held in Tokyo and won first place in her favorite event for the second consecutive day.
As the first competition this year, Ikee participated in a competition in a 25-meter short course pool held at the Tokyo Tatsumi International Swimming Center in Koto-ku, Tokyo, and on the 8th, she was good at the women's 100-meter freestyle. I came to
On the 7th, Ikee took first place in the women's 50m butterfly, which she is also good at, but she was unable to move her body as she wanted due to the cold weather, so she did a lot of training on land before the race. As a result, he swam with a large stroke from the beginning and finished first with a time of 53.59 seconds.
After the race, Ikee said, ``I thought that I couldn't improve unless I moved differently from yesterday, which led to the race.Today wasn't good overall, but it wasn't bad. I want to enter firmly," he said.
Also, in the women's 200m breaststroke, Ikee, who won the Japanese championship last year, and Tsuki Imai, her best friend and classmate, competed.
After missing out on the Tokyo Olympics, Imai has been training under a new coach to improve his condition, and in the race he jumped out with a powerful stroke from the start and finished first with a time of 2 minutes 21.02 seconds. I was.
After the race, Imai looked back, saying, “Yesterday I made a mistake on a turn, so today I focused on not making a mistake, but I was exhausted in the second half, and I still had some issues to work on.”
And she said, "I want to aim for the national team firmly. It's been six years since I've been on the national team, so I want to aim to return to the national team." bottom.