World top prosthetic athlete challenges world record!
60 meters street race in the middle of Shibuya

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As a noteworthy event of "Shibuya Arts Festival 2018" (from October 22nd to November 4th), we will restrict traffic on Shibuya · Fire Street on November 4 (Sunday) and race for 60 meters with the road as a land track truck "Shibuya City Game ~ Challenge to the world fastest ~ "is held.

The first event at "Shibuya Arts Festival 2017" last year invited the world's top prosthetic athlete wearing the prosthetic foot of "Xiborg (Cyborg)" commercialized based on the research of the Sony Computer Science Laboratory , Challenging the world record of the 60m race. Last year, American Richard Brown recorded a favorable time of 7.14 seconds approaching the world record of 6.39 seconds and attracted audiences who filled the roadside.

▲ Photo = state of 2017. Truck extends from before Tower Records to Shibuya Modi

The track track regulates the public road called "Shibuya fire street" from Kinan 1-chome intersection to the front intersection of Jinan post office, and 3 lanes are prepared for 3 people running side-by-side at the same time. This year, which will be the second time this year, the top 20 prosthetic athletes in the world, including the 2017 World Para Athletics Championship 200m gold medalist Jalid Wallace, 2017 World Para Athletics Championship 100m gold medalist Johnny Peacock, 2018 Indonesia 2018 Asia Para Games Competition 3 people from the domestic side, including Shunsuke Iiya of the 100-meter gold medalist participate, challenging the world fastest in the center of Shibuya.

▲ Photo = state of 2017. Richard Brown of the United States, German Felix Stolengers and other world-class prosthetic legs run all the way

MC is former TBS announcer Hiroki Ando who is currently active as free, and Takeshi Takahira, who participated in the 2012 London Olympics in commentary, is in charge of the commentary. On the day, in addition to the top athlete race, the elementary school student 's prosthetic foot runner runs on the same course as the professional player, and a challenge run aiming at updating the best of the best is also performed.

A street race challenging the fastest in the world that will be held in the middle of the city of Shibuya. Why do not you watch the real runs of the world's top prosthetic athletes in raw?

 渋谷シティゲーム 〜世界最速への挑戦〜
 〇主催：渋谷芸術祭実行委員会
 〇共催：渋谷区
 〇協賛：ソニー株式会社
 〇日時：11月4日（日）14:30 – 16:00
 〇場所：渋谷ファイヤー通り（神南一丁目交差点〜神南郵便局前交差点）
 〇内容：
   ・世界トップアスリートによるストリートレース
   ・小学生の義足ランナーによるチャレンジラン
   ※荒天時は内容変更の可能性も有り
 〇公式：Event Details