Wheelchair tennis player Yui Kamiji becomes first Japanese to qualify for 2020 Games
Wheelchair tennis player Yui Kamiji on Friday became the first Japanese athlete to qualify for either the 2020 Tokyo Olympics or Paralympics by winning gold at the Asian Para Games. Kamiji defeated China's Zhu Zhenzhen 6-3, 6-4 in the women's singles gold-medal match at the ongoing Asian Para Games. The winners ...
Para Arena a barrier-free home base for athletes
With the start of the 2020 Tokyo Paralympics just two years away, para athletes have begun to ramp up preparations ...
Men's wheelchair national team coach grateful for expanded training opportunities
Until recently, Japan's elite para-sport athletes have struggled to earn support from their workplace as they aim to represent their ...
Nippon Foundation invests in high school, university Paralympic athletes
The 2020 Summer Games in Tokyo will not only be a significant event for Olympic-caliber athletes in Japan, but it will also provide an opportunity to motivate Paralympic sport athletes. But often financial situations prevent disabled people from participating in sports and trying to become ...
Paralympic gold medalist Gurimu Narita targeting historic double achievement at Tokyo 2020
Gurimu Narita did not bask too long in the glory of winning a pair of medals at the 2018 Winter Paralympics. What he achieved in Pyeongchang, South Korea, in March — gold in the men's snowboarding banked slalom and bronze in the snowboard cross, both ...
Momoka Muraoka reflects on historic performance at Pyeongchang Paralympics
Momoka Muraoka, who won five medals at the recent Pyeongchang Winter Paralympics, was all smiles during her post-Paralympic news conference at the Japan National Press Club on Wednesday. The 21-year-old Alpine sit-skier, who was Japan's flag bearer for the opening ceremony, won gold in the ...
Japan's medalists recount highlights of Pyeongchang Paralympics
Sit skier Momoka Muraoka now realizes that she has become the athlete to beat after earning five medals at the Pyeongchang Paralympics, which wrapped up on Sunday. Appearing in a talk show with four other Pyeongchang medalists in Tokyo on Tuesday, 21-year-old Muraoka insisted she ...
Momoka Muraoka claims silver on final day as Japan wraps up strong showing in Paralympics
Competition wrapped at the Pyeongchang Winter Paralympics on Sunday, closing out 10 days marked by strong performances by the younger members of Team Japan. With 10 medals overall (three gold, four silver, three bronze), the national team delivered on its promise of surpassing the six ...
Yoshihiro Nitta wins cross-country 10-km classical gold medal
Yoshihiro Nitta won gold in the standing cross-country 10-km classical skiing on Saturday at the Winter Paralympics. Nitta crossed the finish line at Alpensia Biathlon Centre in a disability-factored time of 24 minutes, 6.8 seconds. Grygorii Vovchynskyi of Ukraine finished 8.7 seconds behind Nitta for ...
Gurimu Narita captures men's snowboarding gold medal at Pyeongchang Paralympics
Gurimu Narita won gold Friday in men's snowboarding banked slalom at the Pyeongchang Winter Paralympics. The Osaka native claimed his second medal at these games after he finished with the best time in the SB-LL2 classification of 48.68 seconds on his last of three runs ...
Norway's Lena Schroeder fulfills dream by competing at Winter Paralympics
Not only does Norway's Lena Schroeder care very little about being the only female among the 135 ice hockey players at the Pyeongchang Winter Games, she revels in being a "woman of steel" out to make a difference for her team. "For me, I'm so ...
After winning two bronze and a silver, Alpine sit skier Momoka Muraoka's determination pushed her to win the best-colored medal at the Pyeongchang Winter Paralympics At 21, she became the youngest Japanese athlete to win gold at the Winter Paralympics when she topped the 10-woman ...
An American skier who suffered birth defects due to the Chernobyl nuclear disaster and spent her early life in orphanages said she was "on cloud nine" after winning gold in the 1.1-km cross-country sprint skiing at the Pyeongchang Winter Paralympics on Wednesday. Oksana Masters was ...
Momoka Muraoka claims Japan's first gold of Pyeongchang Paralympics
Sit skier Momoka Muraoka raced to Japan's first gold medal of the Pyeongchang Winter Paralympics on Wednesday in the women's Alpine skiing giant slalom. Muraoka finished in a disability-factored, two-run total of 2 minutes, 26.53 seconds at Jeongseon Alpine Centre, beating out the Netherlands' Linda ...
Para-skiing legend Brian McKeever and guide Graham Nishikawa share Japanese roots
In cross-country skiing for visually impaired athletes, trusting the sighted guide and being in sync with the person who sends navigational commands makes all the difference. Eleven-time gold medalist Brian McKeever, Canada's most decorated winter Paralympian, and his guide Graham Nishikawa have a comfortable partnership ...
