"The 7th Athlete Dresser Award" Safari honors brilliant and elegant top athletes vol.1

“Thank you for choosing us for the 7th Athlete Dresser Award! This year was a special year for me as a result of the team transfer, and as an athlete, performance and fashion make Yokohama a special year. I want to liven up the city!"

"I am honored to have been awarded such a wonderful award. The word surfing may not have been familiar in Japan before, but it is an official addition to the Tokyo Olympics and is known to many people. We are glad that we are professional surfers who are interested in the experience and we will do our best to make you more surfing with this award and find it cool.”

“I am very honored to be able to win the award that selects athletes who are particular about fashion and lifestyle by paying attention to other areas besides my competition. I encouraged this award and focused my attention on the gymnastics competition. I will continue to devote myself to the practice so that I can meet your expectations."

``This time, I was honestly surprised to hear that I received the Athlete Dresser Award! I am practicing every day aiming to be a cool athlete that next-generation children long for, but in this fashion-related way. It's the first time I've been interested in it, and I'm glad that fashion is a new world for me, but I hope this event will let more people know about the 2020 Tokyo Olympics BMX race. ."

“I was honestly surprised to receive awards other than my baseball, but I am very pleased that you were evaluated in the field of your favorite fashion. The first priority is to continue to do my best in baseball. I would like to spend my days with the fashion that I like, and I thank you for receiving this award."

"Well, I was surprised to hear that I was myself!", but I am very pleased to win this award. I'm a professional professional, and I'm careful about my appearance and fashion so that the climber can feel cool even when climbing. I'm a little embarrassed because I usually come out to the public in competition wear, but it's a valuable opportunity, so I'm looking forward to the day of the award."

-Profile of winners- 

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Born in 1990. Professional soccer player belonging to Yokohama F. Marinos. Joined Kashiwa Reysol from multiple J clubs that were attracted by scouts while being in high school and received offers. He made his opening debut and transferred to Borussia MG in Germany in the fourth professional year. Convened by the U-22 Japan National Team, aiming for the London Olympics, he scored the final goal in the final qualifying, and in the actual performance of the tournament, he made a total of three goals, contributing to the advancement to the best four in 44 years. As a striker who knows three leagues in Japan and abroad, he uses techniques and dribbling that he had refined as a boy.

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Born in 1993. Professional surfer. When I was little, I started going to the sea under my father's influence, and when I realized I was immersed in surfing. When I was 12 years old, I moved from Yokohama to Chiba and became a surf-oriented lifestyle. At the age of 16, he officially became a JPSA (Japan Professional Surfing Federation) certified professional surfer, and at the age of 17, he was selected as a "JPSA Rookie of the Year". With his natural surfing talent, he has won the Grand Champion in the JPSA Shortboard Series for three consecutive years since 2016. It is expected to play an active part in the Olympics.

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Kato Ruheira 

Born in 1993. A gymnast belonging to the Konami Sports Gymnastics Division. After graduating from Juntendo University, joined the Konami Sports Club Co., Ltd. and became a member of the gymnastics section. In the World Championships, he won the 2013 General Ant-Award Silver Medal, the 2014 Nanning Tournament Parallel Bar Bronze Medal, and the 2015 Glasgow Olympic Group General Gold Medal. In the Olympic men's gymnastics group overall, he won a silver medal at the 2012 London Games and a gold medal at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Games. Her specialty is "Yuka".

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Born in 1991. Australian national team BMX racer. Born on the Galt Coast under a Japanese mother and an English father, moved to Japan with his family at the age of 4 and spent his childhood in Japan. Currently based in Sydney, he finally won the coveted Oceania and Australian championships in 2017, becoming the champion with his sister Shou. In 2018, he won 4th place in the World Cup. I am improving my riding everyday to become a world champion. 9th in the world ranking. (With 11/26)

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Takashi Toritani  

Born in 1981. Professional baseball player belonging to the Hanshin Tigers. He joined the free drafting slot at the 2003 Draft Conference and set numerous records including 1939 consecutive games in the official match and 2000 hits in the 50th official match in history. As a shortstop, he has recorded the highest number of RBI NPB seasons (104 RBI) and the longest NPB record in 667 consecutive games. An infielder who represents the 2000s Tigers, he has the belief that he will continue to play matches at any time, and his style of pulling on his back is very popular among the team.

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Tomo Narasaki 

Born in 1996. Sports climbing athlete. Using the aerial sensation cultivated in gymnastics during his childhood as a weapon, he continues his unique climbing style and is called "NINJA" with a dynamic move and fascinates the world. Starting from the first World Cup victory in the second year of turning professional, he became the first Japanese man to win the bouldering World Cup annually. Achieved the first Japanese title in the same year's world championship, and became the world's best title in both name and reality. He became the first Japanese champion in the Conhabind, which became an additional event in the Olympics, and is now attracting attention as the climber with the closest gold medal.

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