{"id":226562,"date":"2016-10-26T02:57:50","date_gmt":"2016-10-26T09:57:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=226562"},"modified":"2016-10-26T02:57:50","modified_gmt":"2016-10-26T09:57:50","slug":"rikako-ikee-downs-100-im-world-junior-record-at-tokyo-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/rikako-ikee-downs-100-im-world-junior-record-at-tokyo-world-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"Rikako Ikee Downs 100 IM World Junior Record at Tokyo World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just one day after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/rikako-ikee-edges-100-fly-world-junior-record-at-tokyo-world-cup\/\" target=\"_blank\">setting a new World Junior Record<\/a> in the women&#8217;s 100 SCM butterfly,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?s=Rikako+ikee\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Rikako Ikee<\/strong><\/a>, 16, of Japan was back in the water etching her name in the record books.<\/p>\n<p>Swimming in finals of the women&#8217;s 100 individual medley (IM), Ikee posted a second place finish of 58.24 behind Hungary&#8217;s\u00a0<strong>Katinka Hosszu<\/strong>. That time erased the existing World Junior Record of 58.36, set as a benchmark time for FINA&#8217;s list of SCM records.<\/p>\n<p>When\u00a0FINA began recognizing short course meter records in January of 2015 they simply set \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/fina-short-course-world-junior-records\/\" target=\"_blank\">benchmarks<\/a>\u201d for times, thereby associating no names with the records. As those benchmark times are bypassed the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fina.org\/sites\/default\/files\/wr_jr_jul_28_2016.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">record book<\/a>\u00a0begins to fill with names.<\/p>\n<p>Ikee is one of three young athletes who has experienced record-breaking success at the 2016 FINA World Cup Series as both\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/zhu-menghui-lowers-50-free-world-junior-record-at-beijing-world-cup\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Zhu Menghui<\/strong><\/a> and\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?s=kyle+chalmers\" target=\"_blank\">Kyle Chalmers<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>have downed World Junior Records.<\/p>\n<p>The 16-year-old Olympian is no stranger to World Junior records, owning the 50 LCM free (24.72) as well. In addition to WJ records Ikee also owns a total of four national records (all LCM): 50 free (24.67), 100 free (53.69), 50 fly (25.50), and 100 fly (56.86).<\/p>\n<p>In her first Olympics Ikee qualified to swim in a wealth of events (four individual and three relay) with her highest showing being in the 100 fly, where she touched sixth overall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just one day after setting a new World Junior Record in the women&#8217;s 100 SCM butterfly,\u00a0Rikako Ikee, 16, of Japan was back in the water etching her name in the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":152743,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,10],"tags":[58322,42777,42750],"class_list":["post-226562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-world","tag-2016-world-cup-series","tag-rikako-ikee","tag-world-junior-record"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.3 (Yoast SEO v24.3) - 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