Kabasawa Wakana from Gunma Prefecture has been selected to compete in the women's 500m at the Paris Olympics.

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Kabasawa Wakana from Gunma Prefecture has been selected to compete in the women's 500m at the Paris Olympics.

On the 4th, the Japan Association of Athletics Federations announced four additional athletes who have been selected for the Paris Olympics, including 25-year-old Kabasawa Wakana. Kabasawa is the first Olympic representative. This is the eighth representative from Gunma Prefecture to compete in the Paris Olympics, and the third in track and field after Ryuji Miura in the men's 3000m hurdles and Daiki Yanagida in the 400m relay. Kabasawa is from Maebashi and has been active in middle and long distance running since junior high school, and won consecutive championships in the National Athletic Meet Junior Women's B 1500m during high school.