At the Paris Paralympics representative selection event, 37-year-old Takayuki Suzuki, who aims to participate in the Paralympics for the sixth time in a row, broke the dispatch standard record in the men's 50m freestyle in the motor dysfunction class with a time of 37.86 seconds. I have been selected as a representative for the Paris Paralympic Games.
Who is Takayuki Suzuki?
Takayuki Suzuki, a para-swimmer who will be participating in his sixth consecutive Paralympic Games, is a 37-year-old from Hamamatsu City.
Since he was born, he has lost both of his legs and his right hand, and his fingers on his left hand are disabled, making him the fourth most severely disabled out of 10 classes of motor dysfunction.
When he entered high school, he began seriously pursuing para-competitive swimming, and competed in his first Paralympic Games at the Athens Games during his senior year of high school.
At the 2008 Beijing Games, he won a gold medal in the 50m breaststroke.
He missed out on a medal at the Rio de Janeiro Games and briefly considered retiring, but due to changes in international rules in 2018, he was changed to a class with more obstacles, and he became one of the world's top athletes.
Suzuki took advantage of her employer's overseas training program and began practicing at a British university in 2013 to hone her swimming skills, and won the gold medal in the 100m freestyle at the Tokyo Games, her fifth consecutive Paralympic appearance. , won medals in all five events in which he competed.
After the Tokyo Games, he returned to his training base in Japan and said, ``I will focus my training on the events that have the highest chance of winning the gold medal.'' At last year's World Championships, he trained in the 50m, 100m freestyle, and 50m breaststroke. They participated in only three events and won bronze medals in all of them.