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TOKYO, April 22. Japan's Masami Tanaka swam the second fastest 200 meter breaststroke in history today in winning her semi-final heat at the Japanese National Championships in Tokyo. The 20-year-old breaststroke ace stroked 2:24.27 for the four-lap race; only South Africa's Penny Heyns, who ...

By Hideki Mochizuki YOKOHAMA, April 22. WITH three international meets on the line (World Championships in Fukuoka, East Asian Games from May 21-26 in Osaka and World University Games in Beijing), the 77th Japanese National Swimming Championships ended today with another three national record fallin...

OSAKA, Japan. May 26. JAPANESE swimmers took four of the six events contested on the final day of the East Asian Games in Osaka, to cap a very successful meet. The hosts won all three women's events today, sweeping the top two spots in two of them. In the 200m baackstroke, up-and-comer Reiko Nak...

According to the Japan Times, Japanese teenage swimming star Rikako Ikee has resumed light exercise while she continues to battle leukemia. Her coach, Jiro Miki, told the news outlet on June 1. After being diagnosed with leukemia in February of this year, the report says that she has started trainin...

By Hideki Mochizuki TOKYO, April 23. THE JAPANESE Swimming Federation announced today the team roster for World Championships. Twenty men and 19 women were selected for the World Champsionships. After the turmoil surrounding the federation's decision last year not to select Suzu Chiba--the natio...

By Ian Hanson OSAKA, Japan. May 23. AUSTRALIAN team co-captain Robbie Van Der Zant tonight won Australia’s first individual event at the 3rd East Asian Games in Osaka when he came from behind to defeat teammate Stephen Goudie in a thrilling 100m freestyle final at the Osaka Pool. Van Der Zant finish...

By Ian Hanson OSAKA, Japan. May 22. AUSTRALIAN Swimming’s proud tradition in the men’s 4x200 meter freestyle relay continued in awesome fashion tonight when a team of three young guns joined Olympian Rob Van Der Zant to record Australia’s first win of the Games in the fastest time in the world this ...

By Hideki Mochizuki YOKOHAMA, April 21. ONLY one day after Japanese coaches and officials were predicting disaster for the future of that nation's swimming, three national records were broken on the third day of the Japanese National Championships/World Championship Trials in Yokohama. Eighteen ...

MISSION VIEJO, Calif., June 25. THE visiting Japanese Olympic team completed its domination of the competition at the Mission Viejo 2000 Swim Meet of Champions by winning all six women's events and three of the six men's events on the final day of competition. Junko Onshi cracked a minute in...