Oct. 14, 2021
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Former 200 breaststroke WR holder Ippei Watanabe has been quiet since missing out on the Olympic squad but he's set to race in his native Japan this weekend.
Oct. 5, 2021
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The Japan Student Swimming Championships are set to get underway this week, with Olympians ready to represent their schools in pursuit of the team trophy.
June 25, 2021
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The field has tightened up considerably, but the U.S. still has something no one else does: a 1:04-breaststroker in a field of 1:05s and 1:06s.
June 4, 2021
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The second day of the 2021 Japan Open concluded Friday with many of Japan's Olympians getting some fine-tuning racing in before the Olympics
April 8, 2021
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Rikako Ikee, a Leukemia survivor, earned her second relay bid to the Olympic Games by winning the 100 freestyle at the Japanese Trials.
Jan. 25, 2021
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Japan’s six-times Asian Games champion Rikako Ikee, who returned toswimming last August after leukaemia treatment, has booked a place atApril’s Olym...
Jan. 22, 2021
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The 2021 Kosuke Kitajima Cup kicks off a packed season of domestic racing within Japan, as the top talent to the tune of Kosuke Hagino , Katsuhiro Matsumoto, Suzuka Hasegawa , Ryosuke Irie , Shoma Sato gear up for a home-based Olympic Games. Rikako Ikee is also making her 2021 calendar year debut at this Kosuke Kitajima Cup in Tokyo after bypassing her originally-planned first competition of the New Year’s Meet due to coronavirus concerns. She’ll be in the water tomorrow. On day 1 of this 3-day affair, we reported how Matsumoto wasted no time making his presence known in the men’s 20 ...
March 26, 2020
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Four-time Olympic champion Kosuke Kitajima – the only man in history to have won back-to-back breaststroke titles – believes athletes must prepare for every eventuality and overcome every hurdle in the light of the postponement of Tokyo 2020. The Japanese – known as the ‘Frog King’ – won the 100 and 200m breaststroke at Athens 2004 before a successful defence four years later in Beijing saw him write his own entry in the record books. That record of being the only male breaststroker to have retained an Olympic title – and the sole swimmer, man or woman, to have defended the 100m gold ...
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.
Aug. 22, 2018
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Japan got a 1-2 finish out of 17-year-old Natsumi Sakai (59.27) and 22-year-old Anna Konishi (59.67) in the 100 back final on Wednesday night at the 2018 Asian Games in Jakarta.