22-year-old Airi Ebina placed 11th in the women's 10km open water swimming event at the World Swimming Championships being held in Qatar, Middle East, and has been selected to represent the Olympic team in Paris.
The World Swimming Championships began on the 2nd in Doha, Qatar, and the women's 10km open water swimming event was held on the second and third day of the event.
At this year's Open Water Swimming World Championships, the top 13 countries and regions in the 10km event for both men and women will be given a spot to participate in the Paris Olympics, and the athletes who win the spot will be selected to represent the country. .
Two people from Japan participated, 22-year-old Ebina and 19-year-old Ichika Kajimoto, of whom Ebina was in the top position from the first half and led the race.
Ebina continued to swim tenaciously in the second half, finishing 11th with a time of 1 hour 57 minutes 35.5 seconds, earning him a spot on the Paris Olympic team.
This is Ebina's first Olympics as a native of Hokkaido.
He is known for his aggressive swimming ability, leading the race, and finished 28th at the World Championships held in Fukuoka last year, but later won the silver medal at the Asian Games held in China in October. I was there.
Kajimoto also placed 21st with a time of 1 hour 58 minutes 17.4 seconds.
The gold medal went to Sharon van Rouwendaal of the Netherlands, silver medalist at the Tokyo Olympics.