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TOKYO, Japan, June 5. THE 2009 edition of the Japan Open featured a few spirited attempts at Japanese records, but they all fell short during the first night of long course meter action.
The 100 backstrokes were definitely the spotlight events for the first night of action. Shiho Sakai took a serious run at Reiko Nakamura's national record...
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By Hideki Mochizuki, Swimming World Japanese Correspondent
HAMAMATSU, Japan, April 17. SEVERAL more records took a hit during the second day of swimming at the Japanese Long Course National Championships, including one of the fastest men's 100 backstrokes of all time.
In the morning heats, two Asian records were broken. Ken Takaku...
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TOKYO, Japan, February 21. THE short course meter Japan Open began today at the Tatsumi International Aquatic Center as several national records fell during the first evening of competition.
Zhang Lin posted a Chinese national record in the men's 1500 free with a time of 14:22.47. That performance crushed his standard of 14:36.12 set in 200...
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TOKYO, Japan, October 6. TWO-time Olympic bronze medalist Reiko Nakamura announced her retirement today, according to
Kyodo News in Japan.
Nakamura, 26, finished third in the 200 backstroke in both the 2004 and 2008 Olympics, and also has three bronze medals from the past two World Championships. She placed third in the 200 back at the 2...
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By John Lohn
BEIJING, China, August 16. AFTER three silver-medal performances, Kirsty Coventry was ready for a color change. In the final of the 200 backstroke, the Zimbabwe standout got her wish. Leading wire-to-wire, Coventry – based in the United States with Kim Brackin in Texas – Coventry shattered the world record while repeating her Olympi...
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By John Lohn
BEIJING, China, August 15. ONE more chance to turn silver into gold. That's the scenario facing Kirsty Coventry as she heads into the final of the 200 backstroke. Already with three silver medals at the Beijing Games, Coventry positioned herself for a run at gold and defending her title by leading the semifinal qualifying.
Th...
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By John Lohn
BEIJING, China, August 14. ONE day after announcing that she was tired of winning silver medals, Zimbabwe's Kirsty Coventry started her search for gold in her fourth event of the Games. The runnerup in both medley events and the 100 back, Coventry's last chance at gold in Beijing comes in the 200 backstroke, an event in whic...
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By John Lohn
BEIJING, China, August 12. AFTER the semifinals of the women's 100 backstroke, there were questions as to whether Natalie Coughlin could knock off Zimbabwe's Kirsty Coventry and retain her gold medal. Well, turns out that the American got the job done, setting an American record of 58.96 to stay on the top step of the medal ...
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By John Lohn
BEIJING, China, August 11. IT didn't take long for the fireworks to go off on the second morning of finals, and one of the best female swimmers in the world was the deliverer. One day after collecting the silver medal in the 400 individual medley, with a time that was under the former world record, Zimbabwe's Kirsty Coventry...
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By John Lohn
BEIJING, China, August 10. NO event on the women's slate has developed faster than the 100 backstroke, a fact that was on display during the preliminaries of the event. The Olympic record was wiped out in three consecutive heats and four women dipped under the one-minute barrier, with Zimbabwe's Kirsty Coventry leading the w...
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Updated June 9, 2008
PHOENIX, Arizona, June 6. FROM time-to-time, when enough strong meets are going on during the same weekend across the world,
Swimming World likes to lump them together as if they were in the same meet. Here are the most updated available times from across the world. The top three finishers from each meet are...
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TOKYO, Japan, June 8. DURING the final day of action at the Japan Open, Kosuke Kitajima delivered a strong message to the globe via a world record in the 200 breast, he's ready to defend his Olympic gold medals.
After
wearing a T-shirt stating "I am t...
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TOKYO, Japan, June 7. THE second night of swimming at the Japan Open featured another national record onslaught. Meanwhile, Ryosuke Irie rocketed up from his darkhorse candidacy for an Olympic medal and into being a true contender with a 1:54 in the 200 back.
The first national record of the day fell in the women's 50 fly. Yuka Katou blast...
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TOKYO, Japan, June 6. DURING the first day of competition at the Japan Open held in Tokyo, Kosuke Kitajima made a statement both in and out of the water. Meanwhile, several other Japanese records fell at the meet.
Kitajima won the men's 100 breast in a national record time of 59.44, improving his stature as the second best in the event beh...
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By Hideki Mochizuki,
Swimming World Japanese correspondent
TOKYO, Japan, May 18. IN a college dual meet at the Tokyo Tatsumi International Swimming Center, Kosuke Kitajima certainly had a chance to test one of the improved models supplied by Mizuno, but he elected not to.
In the morning race of the 200-meter breaststroke, he appeared ...
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By John Lohn
CRANBURY, New Jersey, May 13. FOR more than a decade, the women's 200-meter backstroke was the domain of Hungary's Krisztina Egerszegi. After she clocked 2:06.62 in 1991, the world record was untouchable for many years. Then came Zimbabwe's Kirsty Coventry, who earlier this year took the global standard to 2:06.39. Obvio...
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By Hideki Mochizuki,
Swimming World Japanese Correspondent
TOKYO, Japan, April 20. THE final day of swimming at the Japanese Olympic Trials held in Tokyo witnessed another national record tumble.
In the men's 100 fly, Masayuki Kishida smashed the Japanese record with a 51.86 to defeat second-place finisher Takuro Fujii's 52.25....
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By Hideki Mochizuki,
Swimming World Japanese Correspondent
TOKYO, Japan, April 19. KOSUKE Kitajima took a run at Brendan Hansen's world record in the men's 200 breast, but came up short at the Japanese Olympic Trials held in Tokyo.
Kitajima almost broke the world record of 2:08.50 set by Hansen at the 2006 Pan Pacific Champions...
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By Hideki Mochizuki,
Swimming World Japanese Correspondent
TOKYO, Japan, April 17. JUST one day after Reiko Nakamura became the 11th woman under a minute in the women's 100 backstroke, Hanae Itoh one-upped her compatriot by becoming the 12th with a national record at the Japanese Olympic Trials.
While Nakamura pushed the pace in th...
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By Hideki Mochizuki,
Swimming World Japanese Correspondent
TOKYO, Japan, April 16. DAY two of the Japanese Olympic Trials featured three finals. The biggest focus of the second night was Kosuke Kitajima's 100 breast.
Yesterday, Kitajima went 59.87 in prelims and 59.66 in semis. In the final, the last event of the second day, the...
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