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Mio Narita and Mizuki Hirai Looking to Spark Japan from Recent Struggles It’s been a rough stretch in international waters for the Japanese women. Not since the 2020 Olympic Games, held on home soil in Tokyo, has a female athlete from Japan appeared on a podium at a global championship meet. The 202...

Veteran Satomi Suzuki Claims 100 Breaststroke Title at Japan Swim; High School Record for Tatsuya Murasa Keeping with Japanese tradition, the women’s 100-meter breaststroke offered a tight finish on the second night of the Japan Swim in Tokyo. Clocking a time of 1:06.21, Satomi Suzuki emerged victor...

World Championships, Night 8: Ruta Meilutyte Lowers 50 Breast World Record for Title Ruta Meilutyte first won a gold medal at the 2013 World Championships. A decade later, she's a double gold medalist with lots more ahead of her. The Lithuanian lowered the world record she tied a night earlier in th...

World Championships, Night 2 Finals: Ruta Meilutyte, Lilly King Lead Veteran 100 Breast Semis Age is just a number. Another number: 1997, as in the year that Ruta Meilutyte, Lilly King and Tatjana Schoenmaker were all born. It was, as they say, a good year, for breaststroke. Those are the top three ...

World Championships: Anna Elendt Wins 100 Breast with Outside Smoke The attention was on the middle of the pool in Tuesday’s women’s 100 breaststroke final at the World Aquatics Championships. That was just fine by Anna Elendt. The German who trains in Austin won a world title out of Lane 1 with a t...

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...

The Americans are on fire in the pool at the Pan Pacific Swimming Championships in Tokyo. The last night of action has been a favorable one for the Americans as they have taken every single gold medal except one thus far in the session. 28-year-old Micah Sumrall continued that streak with a gold in ...

Japanese Olympic Trials: Ryosuke Irie Misses 200 Back; Satomi Suzuki Adds Second Swim Ryosuke Irie’s bid for a fifth Olympics Games fell short in the 200 backstroke Friday at the Japanese Olympic Trials. Irie finished third in his signature event at the Tokyo Aquatics Centre, one in which he won sil...

Not Slowing Down: The 30-Something Swimmers Ranked Among the Top-20 in the World (Women’s Edition) At the 2008 Olympic Games, United States legend Dara Torres claimed a silver medal in the 50-meter freestyle at the age of 41. These days, there aren't any female swimmers of Torres' age, but there are...

Japan ended China's hot streak at the 2018 Asian Games in Jakarta as Satomi Suzuki won Japan's first swimming gold medal on the first night of action from Indonesia. Suzuki went 1-2 with Reona Aoki as Suzuki won the gold with a 1:06.40 for a new Games Record. She broke Shi Jinglin's Games Record of ...

The first full finals session of swimming at the 2018 Asian Games got started with three new Games Records falling. China got four gold medals thanks to Wang Jianjiahe, Sun Yang, Xu Jiayu and Liu Yaxin and Japan got three golds thanks to Satomi Suzuki, Daiya Seto and their women's 4x100 free relay. ...

Photo Credit: Delly Carr INCHEON, Korea, September 16. THE start of the swimming competition at the 17th Asian Games in Incheon, Korea is less than a week away; with the official psych sheets yet to be released, here are five women who could make a major impact at the meet. 1. Ye Shiwen, China [capt...

Zhang Yufei Sets 56.20 Asian Games 100 Fly Record: Hwang Sunwoo Leads Way In 200 Free Prelims The fourth day of the pool programme at the Asian Games dawned with China sitting atop the medal table after winning all but five golds on offer in Hangzhou, China. Asian Games Page China has 15 golds, 13 s...

Tang Qianting Sets Asian 50m Breaststroke Record As China Hint At Sweeping Day 1 Golds At Asian Games Tang Qianting set an Asian 50m breaststroke record as China hinted at a clean sweep of gold on the first day of prelims at the Asian Games in Hangzhou. Asian Games Preview Asian Games results Tang w...

TOKYO, Japan, April 10. KOSUKE Hagino turned in some fireworks in the men's 400-meter IM to start the Japanese Swimming National Championships tonight off right. Hagino crushed the field in the men's 400-meter IM finale as he scared his Asian record of 4:07.61 in the event. Hagino threw down a scorc...

TOKYO, Japan, April 11. ALTHOUGH Kosuke Hagino and Ryosuke Irie definitely earned some of the spotlight tonight at the Japanese National Championships, Satomi Suzuki picked up the lone national record of the evening. Kohei Yamamoto tracked down the men's 1500-meter freestyle title with only the seco...

39 swimmers will compete for Japan at the Asian Swimming Championships next month in Tokyo, but two of the countries biggest-name athletes will be absent: Kosuke Hagino and Rie Kaneto. Hagino had surgery last month to remove an extra bone in his elbow, and the 400 IM gold medalist will not compete a...

Ryosuke Irie and Kosuke Hagino definitely were the stars of the show during night one at the Japan Swim 2015. Ryosuke Irie, who is ranked second in the world in the men's 100-meter back with a 53.15 from the BHP Super Series, topped the semifinal heats with a 53.48.  Masaki Kaneko qualified second i...

TOKYO, Japan, June 20. SWIMMERS took a torch to the Japanese record book tonight at the Japan Open with three new national marks. The record-breaking onslaught included the oldest standard in the Japanese ledger. Kohei Yamamoto smashed the Japanese record in the men's 1500-meter freestyle finale wit...

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...