March 16, 2020
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We reported on March 13th that the 2020 Japan Swim, the nation’s sole qualifying opportunity for its home-nation based Olympic Games, would be shifting dates and would also be held sans spectators. The revision saw the Japan Swim move from its original dates of April 1st to April 8th to the revised time frame of April 2nd to April 7th. The Japanese Swimming Federation now published the updated schedule of events resulting from the date shift of the competition set for the Tokyo Aquatics Centre. The most significant change is that fact that the semi-final round usually in place for ev ...
March 14, 2020
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The 2020 Japan Swim represents the sole Olympic-qualifying meet for the nation’s swimmers. Among the other cancellations and delays, we reported how this meet will continue on, but without spectators, and with revised dates. The original meet of April 1st – April 8th has been condensed to run April 2nd – April 6th, with the exact schedule pending at the time of publishing. As a lead-in to the Japan Swim, elite Japanese swimmers Kosuke Hagino and Yui Ohashi were taking part in a high-altitude training camp in Spain. This is a yearly trek several athletes from the nation make, with ext ...
Jan. 30, 2020
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On-fire Daiya Seto will have extra incentive to give it his all at next month's Konami Open, seeing how a quarter of a million dollars is up for grabs.
Jan. 11, 2020
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World Championships silver medalist in the 200 free, Katsuhiro Matsumoto, added another JPN record to his resume by winning the SCM 400 free in Tokyo tonight.
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New 400 scm Freestyle national record for Katsuhiro Matsumoto #swimming
July 22, 2019
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Japanese medal hopeful in the 200m IM, Yui Ohashi, was disqualified in the event tonight in Gwangju, rendering her unable to upgrade her silver from 2017.
July 22, 2019
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Great Britain's Adam Peaty made history last night as the first man to ever break 57 in the 100 breast semis. Tonight, he may lower his World Record further.
June 3, 2019
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The first FINA Champions Series came to a close in Indianapolis with some of the strongest performances of the entire series. Hear about the top swims from the meet and
June 2, 2019
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The 2019 Japan Open closed today with some more top notch swims, including a sub-2:08 200 breaststroke from world record holder Ippei Watanabe.
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Ippei Watanabe sub-2:08 200 Breaststroke to close out Japan Open #swimming
June 2, 2019
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Expect the competition to heat up, July 12-28, as the world’s best aquatic athletes from all over the world converge on Kwangju, South Korea for the FINA
Nov. 10, 2018
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Day 2 finals of the FINA World Cup stop in Tokyo were highlighted by a pair of historical performances from Vlad Morozov and Ranomi Kromowidjojo.
Oct. 10, 2018
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Watch race highlights from the 2018 FINA World Cup in Budapest, Hungary. Featured performances include a trio of World Records from Alia Atkinson, Nicholas Santos, and Jianjiahe Wang.
Aug. 23, 2018
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200 breast Olympic gold medalist Dmitriy Balandin looks to defend his 100 breast title against Yan Zibei, who leads the way into the final after setting a Games Record in prelims.
Aug. 21, 2018
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The third night of finals from the 2018 Asian Games featured seven events as it was one of the fastest nights of swimming thus far in Jakarta. Liu Xiang broke a world
Aug. 21, 2018
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Japan’s Yui Ohashi, the fastest swimmer in the world for 2018, won her first Asian Games gold medal taking out the 400 IM on night three in Jakarta.
