Momoka Muraoka, who won three gold medals in alpine skiing at the Beijing Paralympics, set a good time in the women's 3-meter wheelchair class in the women's 100-meter wheelchair class despite bad weather to give momentum to the Japan Championships in April.
Top athletes Japan aiming for next year's Paris Paralympics participated in the record meeting held in Setagaya Ward, Tokyo, including Tomoki Sato, who won two gold medals at the Tokyo Paralympics, and Muraoka, who was active in the "dual-wielding" style with athletics and won three gold medals in alpine skiing at the Beijing Paralympics held in March last year.
Muraoka competed in the women's 100-meter wheelchair class, where she holds the Japan record, and jumped out of her strong start in harsh rain and wind, setting a good time of 16.69 seconds, giving momentum to next month's Japan Championships.
In addition, Maya Nakanishi, who has participated in four consecutive Paralympic Games in the women's long jump and prosthetic leg classes, and has announced that she will retire at next year's Paris Games, showed a strong step that she has honed with her speed running and marked 4.4 meters in the fourth time. This July, we broke the standard dispatch record for the World Championships in Paris.
Momoka Muraoka "Confident in my own growth"
Muraoka said, "I thought it would be difficult in terms of conditions, but I felt that I was able to start lightly from the start, and I am confident that what I have been working on was not wrong because this race was a race where I can see my improvement as I have been getting better times overall throughout the season."
Ahead of the World Championships to be held in Paris in July, he said, "I think it will be a prelude to next year's Paris Paralympics, and I think it will be an opportunity for me to look back at myself, so I want to prepare myself for the World Championships first."
Maya Nakanishi "Leads to confidence"
Nakanishi reflected, "I was worried because I wasn't sure if I would be able to show the results of the training camp that I had been working on for the past two months even in poor conditions, but I was able to make a stable leap throughout the tournament, and it was a good tournament that gave me confidence ahead of the World Championships."
Regarding his future goals, he said with a smile, "I want to achieve a personal best and jump over 2 meters at the World Championships."