Players from both teams compete for the ball amid cheering spectators at Yokohama Rapport in Kohoku Ward, Yokohama.
The Yokohama Para Sports Festival, where wheelchair basketball can be enjoyed, was held on the 11th at Yokohama Rapport, a cultural center for sports for people with disabilities in Kohoku Ward, Yokohama City. , Saitama Prefecture’s powerhouse “Saitama Lions”.
About 200 people selected by lottery, including people with disabilities, attended. Renshi Chokai, who won a silver medal at the Tokyo Paralympics as a representative of Japan, Takuya Furusawa (all from Kanagawa), Ryuga Akaishi (Saitama), and others made appearances in a high-level match.
Many people were watching the game live for the first time on this day, and the athletes fiercely competed for the ball, and even if they were overturned in their wheelchairs, they would quickly get up again. When a three-point shot from a distance was decided, a voice of amazement went up. Kanagawa won the match.
During halftime, there will be an event in which spectators can participate, and Ichika Michizawa (9 years old), a third-year elementary school student from Edogawa-ku, Tokyo, will try to shoot in a competition wheelchair. She herself has two prosthetic legs and fewer fingers on her hands. (Madoka Kamiya)
2023-08-12 07:32:53
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