{"id":326367,"date":"2018-08-21T04:57:43","date_gmt":"2018-08-21T11:57:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=326367"},"modified":"2018-08-21T09:01:48","modified_gmt":"2018-08-21T16:01:48","slug":"yui-ohashi-powers-to-400-im-gold-at-asian-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/yui-ohashi-powers-to-400-im-gold-at-asian-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Yui Ohashi Powers To 400 IM Gold At Asian Games"},"content":{"rendered":"

Japan’s\u00a0Yui Ohashi<\/strong>, the fastest swimmer in the world for 2018, won her first Asian Games gold medal taking out the 400 IM on night three in Jakarta. Ohashi won the gold with a 4:34.58, a little slower than her 4:33.77 from Pan Pacs earlier in the month, but good enough to win by nearly three full seconds. Ohashi won the gold ahead of South Korea’s\u00a0Kim Seoyeong\u00a0<\/strong>(4:37.43), who won the silver medal.<\/p>\n

Ohashi was about a second and a half off of\u00a0Ye Shiwen’s\u00a0<\/strong>Games Record of 4:32.97 from 2014.<\/p>\n

Both Ohashi and Kim would have finaled in the Virtual World Championships after all the major international meets this summer. Japan’s\u00a0Sakiko Shimizu\u00a0<\/strong>won the bronze medal here in Jakarta with her 4:39.10, much slower than her 4:36.27 from Pan Pacs. She too would have gotten in the final at the Virtual Worlds with that Pan Pac time.<\/p>\n

Those three were well ahead of the rest of the field as China’s\u00a0Zhou Min\u00a0<\/strong>(4:42.75) and Vietnam’s\u00a0Vien Nguyen\u00a0<\/strong>(4:42.81) finished off the podium in fourth and fifth.<\/p>\n

Ohashi became the fourth Japanese swimmer to win the 400 IM at the Asian Games joining the likes of\u00a0Mio Hirata\u00a0<\/strong>(1978),\u00a0Hideka Koshimizu\u00a0<\/strong>(1982) and\u00a0Yasuko Tajima\u00a0<\/strong>(1998) as winners in the event for Japan.<\/p>\n

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  1. Yui Ohashi<\/strong>, JPN, 4:34.58<\/li>\n
  2. Kim Seoyeong<\/strong>, KOR, 4:37.43<\/li>\n
  3. Sakiko Shimizu<\/strong>, JPN, 4:39.10<\/li>\n
  4. Zhou Min<\/strong>, CHN, 4:42.75<\/li>\n
  5. Vien Nguyen<\/strong>, VIE, 4:42.81<\/li>\n
  6. Yang Chang<\/strong>, CHN, 4:47.24<\/li>\n
  7. Hoi Kiu Lam<\/strong>, HKG, 4:55.42<\/li>\n
  8. Azzahra Permatahani<\/strong>, INA, 4:58.89<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Virtual World Championships:<\/h3>\n
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    1. Yui Ohashi<\/strong>, JPN, 4:33.77, Pan Pacs<\/li>\n
    2. Fantine Lesaffre<\/strong>, FRA, 4:34.17, Europeans<\/li>\n
    3. Aimee Willmott<\/strong>, GBR, 4:34.90, Europeans<\/li>\n
    4. Ilaria Cusinato,<\/strong>\u00a0ITA, 4:35.05, Europeans<\/li>\n
    5. Hannah Miley<\/strong>, GBR, 4:35.16, Europeans<\/li>\n
    6. Melanie Margalis<\/strong>, USA, 4:35.60, Pan Pacs<\/li>\n
    7. Sakiko Shimizu<\/strong>, JPN, 4:36.27, Pan Pacs<\/li>\n
    8. Kim Seoyeong<\/strong>, KOR, 4:37.43, Asian Games<\/em><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n