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On Wednesday, October 27, XNUMX, the awards ceremony for the Tokyo Metropolitan Honor Award and Citizen Sports Award was held at the XNUMXth floor hall of the Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building No. XNUMX Main Building.XNUMX Rio Olympic and Paralympic medalists who live or work in Tokyo and have ties to Tokyo attended, and Governor Koike presented them with the Tokyo Metropolitan Honor Award and Citizen Sports Award.

The purpose of the Tokyo Metropolitan Honor Award is to honor those who have been widely respected by the citizens of Tokyo, given bright dreams, hopes and vitality to society, and raised the name of Tokyo due to their particularly outstanding achievements. It was established in 16.This time, the awards were presented to nine gold medalists at the Rio Olympics.
The Tokyo Citizen Sports Award was established in 20 to honor the achievements of Tokyo athletes who have achieved excellent results in world-class sports competitions, and to share that excitement with the citizens of Tokyo.A total of 9 people received this award, including 12 recipients of the Tokyo Metropolitan Honor Award, 30 silver medalists, and 51 bronze medalists from the Rio Olympics and Paralympics.
(The list of 51 award winners ishere）

Shohei Ohno (judo) receiving an award

Tomonobu Ike receiving an award (wheelchair rugby)

Governor Koike said, ``The way you fought beyond your own limits gave us Japanese people dreams and hope. Thank you so much. We would like to promise that we will work hand in hand with the national government, the organizing committee, and related local governments to make this a great event so that all athletes can demonstrate their full potential on the best stage. I sincerely hope that all of the award recipients today will continue to make great strides in the future and will continue to play an active role at the Festival of the Century to be held in Tokyo in 2020.''

Kenzo Shirai (gymnastics) giving a greeting

Yurie Kanuma (bicycle) giving a greeting

Speaking on behalf of the Olympic athletes who won the award, Kenzo Shirai, the gold medalist in the men's gymnastics team, said, ``I think our hard work over the past four years will lead to excitement in Tokyo, so I want to refocus and do my best.'' I talked to him.
Speaking on behalf of the Paralympic athletes, Yurie Kanuma, silver medalist in bicycle road women's time trial B, said, ``I'm really happy that the Paralympics will be held here in 2020.I've been practicing and cherishing every single day for the past four years.'' I want to focus on that and do my best to win a medal even better than this one."

Congratulations to all the award winners!