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Tomoru Honda Takes Down Seto in 200 Fly at Japan Open; Hagino, Ohashi Take 200 IM Wins The 2021 Japan Open continued Saturday from the Tokyo Olympic Aquatic Center with some of Japan's best competing 168 days out from a home Olympics. Notably, this meet has seen the return of multi-world champ Daiya...

Rikako Ikee Books Spot At Olympic Trials; Plays Down Hopes For Making Tokyo 2020 Team Rikako Ikee, the six-time 2018 Asian Games champion, booked her spot at April's Olympic qualification meet after dipping inside the required standard at the Kosuke Kitatjima Cup. The 20-year-old made public she had...

Japan closed out the first night of swimming with three straight gold medals with the women taking the 4x100 free relay Games Record in the process. The team of Rikako Ikee (53.60), Natsumi Sakai (54.81), Tomomi Aoki (54.21) and Chihiro Igarashi (53.90) swam a 3:36.52 for a new Games Record, breakin...

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. Speaking exclusively to Swimming World, Kitajima looked b...

By Olivia Wile, Swimming World College Intern.  Today marked the halfway point of the 2019 Japanese Swimming Championships in Tokyo. The spotlight was on Daiya Seto this session, winning both the final of the men's 200m butterfly and later the semi-final of the 200m individual medley. Hirai Ayatsugu...

ISL Match Nine Live: Energy Standard Face Off Against Frog Kings, Iron, Titans in Final Regular Season Matchup The penultimate match of the regular season of the 2020 International Swimming League featured defending champs Energy Standard in their final tune-up before the semi-finals, alongside the ...

By Olivia Wile, Swimming World College Intern. Today marked day two of the 2019 Japanese Swimming Championships. It was a relatively calm session with top seeds Yui Ohhashi and Hiroko Makino taking first in finals in their respective events. On the men's side, top seed Yasuhiro Koseki also finished ...

The second day of the Japan Open upped the ante for the host country as two senior national records and one junior record fell in Tokyo. The meet is featuring a contingent of athletes from Australia and Great Britain, while American Anthony Ervin is also in attendance. Satomi Suzuki set the first na...

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. Sakai swam faster than she did at Pan Pacs earlier in the month as she put herself in the top eight for the Virtual World ...

China won its third straight gold medal in the pool on the first night of action from the 2018 Asian Games in Jakarta, Indonesia. Liu Yaxin followed in the footsteps of Wang Jianjiahe and Sun Yang to win China's third gold medal of the night. Liu took out the 200 back with a 2:07.65 for the gold med...

The International Swimming League's two newest teams get underway in ISL Match 3, with the Tokyo Frog Kings and Toronto Titans each hitting the water for the first time. They're joined by two teams looking to make up ground after difficult starts. The LA Current finished third against a difficult fi...

The Japan Swim 2020 continued Friday from the Tokyo Olympic Aquatic Center in its maiden voyage 232 days ahead of the start of the 2021 Games as many of Japan's best got their first taste of racing in the Olympic pool. RESULTS Many of Japan's medal hopefuls were in action as Katsuhiro Matsumoto took...

Something has to give in ISL Match Eight: Both the Cali Condors and London Roar enter their third match of the International Swimming League without a loss to their records. The teams are tied for second in the season standings with eight points each, trailing only LA Current (which has the benefit ...

The Japanese women swept the relays with a 3:54.73 in the 4x100 medley relay to close out night five of the 2018 Asian Games from Jakarta, Indonesia. Japan's relay of Natsumi Sakai (59.42), Satomi Suzuki (1:05.43), Rikako Ikee (55.80) and Tomomi Aoki (54.08) set a new Games Record of 3:54.73 to demo...

Canada's Meryn McCann turned in a time of 2:11.15 to claim the first place seed in the 200-meter back during prelims. McCann added slightly to her seed time of 2:11.20. Russia's Irina Prikhodko claimed the second place seed with a time of 2:11.35, also from heat five. Australia's Minna Atherton post...

By Olivia Wile, Swimming World College Intern. After a calm session yesterday, the third day of the 2019 Japanese Swimming Championships followed a similar pattern. Most of the top seeded swimmers won their respective events, with Katsuhiro Matsumoto kicking things with a finals win in the men's 200...

Everything you need to follow along with finals live during the 2015 FINA World Cup Tokyo. Hit refresh for the latest coverage. Schedule of Events: Men's 100 Free Women's 200 Free Men's 50 Breast Women's 100 Breast Women's 100 Fly Men's 100 Back Women's 50 Back Men's 200 Fly Women's 200 Individual M...

Photo Courtesy: Griffin Scott MAUI, Hawaii, August 27. THE first session of the Junior Pan Pacific Championships featured a meet record by USA's Andrew Seliskar in the 200-meter fly.  Meanwhile, several other meet records were put in jeopardy during tonight's finals. LIVE STREAM LIVE RESULTS PSYCH S...

The women's 400-meter medley relay team of Natsumi Sakai (1:02.26), Runa Imai (1:08.55), Rikako Imee (58.93) and Sachi Mochida (55.91) from Japan turned in a combined time of 4:05.65. The women's USA relay team of Grace Ariola (1:01.27), Kennedy Lohman (1:09.86), Lauren Case (1:00.23) and Kenisha Li...

The third night of the Japan Swim 2020 in the christening of the Olympic Aquatic Center in Tokyo continued with some solid swims out of Japan's best swimmers. Kosuke Hagino took a hard fought win in the 200 IM with a 1:57.67 that put him fifth in the world for 2020 and also second in the world since...