World Cup, Tokyo: Takeshi Matsuda, Tomoko Hagiwara, Naoya Tomita Break National Records During Day One Finals

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TOKYO, Japan, October 20. THE first day of short course meter finals is complete at the World Cup stop in Tokyo.

Women's 800 free
Only New Zealand's Charlotte Webby broke a Japanese sweep of the final eight with a seventh-place 8:40.96. Maiko Fujino won the distance free event in 8:26.24 to move to sixth in the world rankings. Seiko Nakamura finished second in 8:27.79, while Yumi Kida touched third in 8:28.73.

Ayano Koguchi (8:34.03), Misato Iwanaga (8:34.16), Asami Chida (8:36.19) and Kotoe Yamada (8:43.34) made up the rest of the top eight.

Men's 100 free
Australia's Kyle Richardson cruised to victory in 47.26, moving to fifth in the world rankings. South Africa's Graeme Moore placed second in 47.53, while Russia's Sergey Fesikov rounded out the podium with a 47.61.

South Africa's Lyndon Ferns (47.70), Japan's Syunsuke Kuzuhara (47.84), Sweden's Lars Frolander (47.86), Japan's Yukihiro Okumura (47.94) and Austria's Markus Rogan (48.78) finished up the rest of the finale.

Women's 200 free
Japan's Haruka Ueda won the event in 1:54.43 to move to second in the world rankings, one of only four swimmers under 1:55 this year. Japan's Hanae Ito placed second in 1:55.13 to take sixth in the rankings, while Sweden's Sarah Sjostrom finished third in 1:55.52 to grab seventh in the rankings.

China's Zhang Jiaqi (1:57.17), Japan's Yayoi Matsumoto (1:57.63), Japan's Rise Sekine (1:57.86), Japan's Misato Yamazaki (1:59.84) and Japan's Ayano Koguchi (2:01.92) also vied for the title.

Men's 50 breast
South Africa's Roland Schoeman upset Japan's Kosuke Kitajima, 26.42 to 26.95, in the sprint breast. Schoeman improved upon his third-ranked season best of 26.54, while Kitajima cracked the top 10. Japan's Ryo Tateishi finished third in 27.00.

Japan's Yuki Okajima (27.05), Japan's Naoya Tomita (27.06), Japan's Koichiro Okazaki (27.08), Japan's Ryo Kobayashi (27.53) and Brazil's Tales Cerdeira (29.02) placed fourth through eighth.

Women's 100 breast
USA's Jessica Hardy captured the event title with a time of 1:05.85, just missing her second-ranked season best of 1:05.69 from the Jose Finkel Trophy Meet last month. Japan's Satomi Suzuki finished second in 1:06.16 to take fifth in the world rankings, while compatriot Asami Kitagawa touched third in 1:06.46.

Japan's Nanaka Tamura (1:06.53), Ayumi Koshiyama (1:07.20), Rie Kaneto (1:07.24), Sayuna Sugiyama (1:07.63) and Hitomi Nose (1:07.99) comprised the rest of the championship heat.

Men's 400 IM
Brazil's Thiago Pereira, the World Cup points leader, won his first of likely several golds this meet with a first-place 4:04.03. He finished well ahead of Japan's Daiya Seto, who took second in 4:06.12. Canada's Brian Johns touched third in 4:06.52.

Japan's Syo Uchida (4:07.01), Yuya Horihata (4:08.90) and Kosuke Hagino (4:11.03) finished fourth through sixth, while Brazil's Henrique Rodrigues (4:11.80) and Japan's Ryo Murakawa (4:12.72) placed seventh and eighth.

Women's 100 fly
Sweden's Therese Alshammar, the World Cup points leader among the women, dominated the event in 56.12 to better her top-ranked season best of 56.32 from the Singapore stop. Japan's Yuka Katou finished second in 56.85 to move to fourth in the rankings, while USA's Natalie Coughlin took third in 56.95 for fifth in the rankings.

Sweden's Sarah Sjostrom (57.65), Japan's Nao Kobayashi (58.93), Japan's Tomoyo Fukuda (58.97), USA's Elaine Breeden (59.09) and Japan's Yurie Yano (1:00.43) finished fourth through eighth.

Men's 100 back
USA's Peter Marshall clipped his previously second-ranked season best of 50.97 with a winning 50.94. He trails only Guilherme Guido (50.46). Japan's Junya Koga took second in 51.06 to move to third in the world, while Australia's Hayden Stoeckel finished third in 51.32.

Japan's Ryosuke Irie (51.60), Japan's Kazuki Watanabe (52.22), Japan's Syohei Uchida (52.42), South Africa's George Du Rand (52.59) and Japan's Masafumi Yamaguchi (52.96) also swam this evening.

Women's 50 back
Japan's Aya Terakawa touched out Australia's Rachel Goh, 26.66 to 26.71, for the win. Terakawa moved to third in the world, while Goh missed her second-ranked season best of 26.64. Australia's Marieke Guehrer rounded out the top three in 27.06.

Japan's Noriko Inada (27.24), Japan's Shiho Sakai (27.27), The Netherlands' Hinkelien Schreuder (27.28), Japan's Emi Moronuki (27.79) and Japan's Marie Kamimura (27.93) grabbed the rest of the final finishes.

Men's 200 fly
Japan's Takeshi Matsuda smashed through the Japanese record in the event with a scorching time of 1:50.64. That swim eclipsed the 1:50.97 set by Hidemasa Sano in February of this year, and moved Matsuda to fifth in the all-time rankings. Only Kaio Almeida (1:49.11), Nikolay Skvortsov (1:49.46), Pawel Korzeniowski (1:50.13) and Dinko Jukic (1:50.32) have been faster.

Matsuda posted the remarkable swim with nearly no competition as Sano clocked the closest time with a second-place 1:53.33. Ryosuke Sakata claimed third in 1:53.90.

Brazil's Leonardo De Deus (1:53.94), Japan's Kiyotaka Ido (1:56.82), Japan's Jun Isaji (1:57.09), Japan's Hayato Odagiri (1:57.24) and Japan's Hirotaka Sato (1:58.08) made up the rest of the championship heat.

Women's 200 IM
USA's Julia Smit won the event in 2:08.05, edging her third-ranked season best of 2:08.14 from Singapore. Japan's Izumi Katou placed second in 2:10.35, while Japan's Emi Takabatake took third in 2:10.98.

Japan's Miho Teramura (2:11.39), Tomoyo Fukuda (2:11.86), Chihiro Igarashi (2:12.62), Masako Kuroki (2:12.65) and Haruna Shinohara (2:13.27) touched fourth through eighth.

Men's 400 free
Japan's Syo Uchida touched out Switzerland's Dominik Meichtry, 3:43.38 to 3:43.48, as both moved into the top five in the world rankings. Russia's Mikhail Polishchuk placed third in 3:46.18 to complete the podium.

Japan's Junpei Higashi (3:47.23), Yuki Kobori (3:48.12), Kai Kohata (3:49.27), Takashi Koike (3:51.74) and Hirotada Noritake (3:51.75) rounded out the rest of the top eight.

Women's 50 free
The Netherlands' Hinkelien Schreuder won the splash-and-dash in 24.09, coming up short of her top-ranked effort of 23.98 set in Singapore. USA's Jessica Hardy finished second in 24.42, while Sweden's Therese Alshammar placed third in 24.45.

Australia's Marieke Guehrer (24.48) and Germany's Dorothea Brandt (24.54) touched fourth and fifth, while Japan's Tomoko Hagiwara lowered a national record with a sixth-place 24.91. USA's Madison Kennedy (25.04) and Sweden's Sarah Sjostrom (25.07) completed the final heat.

Men's 200 breast
A third Japanese record took a tumble with Naoya Tomita blazing through the event with a sterling 2:03.18. He downed Ryo Tateishi's 2009 record of 2:03.80 in the process, and moved to seventh in the all-time rankings behind Ed Moses' 2:02.92 from 2004. Tomita's previous best this year had been a top-ranked 2:05.30 from the Beijing stop.

Tateishi settled for second in 2:05.44 to push to second in the world rankings, while Kazuki Otsuka took third in 2:05.84. Kosuke Kitajima surprisingly fell off the podium with a fourth-place 2:06.00.

Brazil's Tales Cerdeira (2:07.97), Austria's Markus Rogan (2:09.23), Japan's Yukihiro Takahashi (2:10.17) and Japan's Masaya Kano (2:11.19) also vied for the title in finals.

Men's 100 IM
Brazil's Thiago Pereira doubled up with a 52.84 for the win in the sprint medley, while Japan's Takuro Fujii placed second in 52.92. South Africa's Darian Townsend rounded out the podium in 53.00.

Russia's Sergey Fesikov (53.17), Brazil's Henrique Rodrigues (53.57), Canada's Brian Johns (54.18), Japan's Yuma Kosaka (54.47) and Japan's Kosuke Kitajima (58.64) also swam in the finale.

Women's 200 back
Japan's Aya Terakawa smoked the event with a 2:03.62 for the win, and moved to second in the world rankings. Only Belinda Hocking (2:03.47) and Melissa Ingram (2:03.99) have cleared 2:04 this season. Japans' Sayaka Akase placed second in 2:04.33 tonight, while compatriot Shiho Sakai touched third in 2:04.67.

USA's Julia Smit (2:05.13), Japan's Marie Kamimura (2:06.39), Germany's Jenny Mensing (2:08.76), Japan's Mai Harada (2:09.27) and Japan's Eriko Tanaka (2:09.29) placed fourth through eighth.

Men's 50 fly
South Africa's Roland Schoeman edged Germany's Steffen Deibler, 22.56 to 22.64, in the sprint fly. Japan's Kohei Kawamoto placed third overall in 23.21.

Sweden's Lars Frolander (23.38), Japan's Ayata Inoue (23.47), Japan's Takayuki Ono (23.68), Japan's Ryo Takayasu (23.70) and Japan's Yuki Hirose (23.98) rounded out the last heat of the night.

Day One Finals Results

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