REPORT BY NAOKI GAMAN: The first Japan Cup of the year was held in Hiroshima last weekend. It was the first time back since FISE HIROSHIMA in 2019. Miharu won park, Mio came in second, and Carin won flatland! Both Mio and Carin joined the elite category this year ❤️🔥 The site where FISE HIROSHIMA 2019 was held has been beautifully renovated and is now called “HIROSHIMA GATE PARK”. See full results below.

Park
Women Elite
1 Miharu Ozawa
2 Mio Yoshida
3 Yuika Yamamoto
4 Minato Oike
Below are the qualifying rankings. Since it was a C1 contest, there were only four finalists.
5 Sakura Sugio
6 Kizuna Hayama
7 Miu Ito
8 Shinai Oh
Women 13-15
1 Rena Shirai
2 Tomoka Okuzaki
3 Aoi Inoue
4 Rena Nonoue
Girls 10-12
1 Iroha Hosokawa
2 Lulu Hamada
3 Mion Tanabe
4 Kureha Hashimoto
5 Iroha Hashimoto
6 Himari Nabeshima
Girls 7-9
1 Kotoha Hashimoto
2 Kocoro Niwa
3 kokona Fukamachi
4 Ema Sakano
5 Ren Isaki
6 Ichika Taniguchi
7 Momo Ikegaya

Flatland
Elite
1 Hommura Carin
2 Sona Yoshimura
3 Yui Kiyomune
4 Ayuna Miyashima
Below are the qualifying rankings. Since it was a C1 contest, there were only four finalists.
5 Chiaki Todaka
6 Kirara Nakagawa
7 Iroha Matsuda
Girls Hi
1 Nanae Takahashi
2 Kikka Yamazaki
3 Yui Maeda
4 Momoka Tsuruta
Girls Low
1 Mio Okayama
2 Sana Akita
3 Mirei Yamashita
4 Mia Saeki
5 Rara Narumoto
Yusa Sakura DNS
