Two Japanese dancers gained gold medals Friday on the prestigious USA International Ballet Competition in Jackson, Mississippi.
Sayako Toku, 21, from Kobe in western Japan, gained within the senior girls’s division and Ryo Sasaki, 24, from Osaka Prefecture, gained within the senior males’s division.
The two, who took half as a pair and had been evaluated individually, additionally gained the Best Senior Couple award in what is called one of many world’s three main ballet competitions, together with the Varna competitors in Bulgaria and one in Moscow.
“Winning gold was a surprise,” stated Toku after the announcement, including, “I’m so grateful to the people who have supported me.”
Sasaki additionally expressed his pleasure, saying, “I can’t believe this. I am at a loss for words.”
The U.S. competitors was held from June 10 with round 100 dancers from 16 nations collaborating.
The occasion is held as soon as each 4 years, but it surely was postponed for a 12 months because of the affect of the novel coronavirus pandemic.
At the competitors in 2018, one other Japanese, Hyuma Kiyosawa, gained the silver medal within the junior male division.
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