{"id":524470,"date":"2023-03-15T13:20:16","date_gmt":"2023-03-15T20:20:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=524470"},"modified":"2023-03-15T13:20:16","modified_gmt":"2023-03-15T20:20:16","slug":"passages-world-record-setter-and-olympic-medalist-shiro-hashizume-dies-at-94","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/passages-world-record-setter-and-olympic-medalist-shiro-hashizume-dies-at-94\/","title":{"rendered":"Passages: World-Record Setter and Olympic Medalist Shiro Hashizume Dies at 94"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Passages: World-Record Setter and Olympic Medalist Shiro Hashizume Dies at 94<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>ISHOF Honoree <strong>Shiro Hashizume<\/strong> died recently at the age of 94. Up until his death on March 9, 2023, Hashizume was Japan\u2019s oldest living Olympic medalist.<\/p>\n<p>Born in 1928, Hashizume should have been at his peak for the 1948 Olympics in London, but Japan was not yet permitted back into the Olympic Family of Nations following the end of World War II.\u00a0 Shiro had to settle for breaking a world record at a time when he may also have won the Olympic gold medal.\u00a0 At the time the world assembled in London for the 15th Olympiad, Japan held its own national championships of Olympic events. Hashizume swam the 1500-meter freestyle in 18:37.8, faster than Jimmy McLane\u2019s 19:18.5 swim that won him the Olympic gold medal halfway around the world in London.<\/p>\n<p>Hashizume and Hall of Famer <strong>Hironoshin Furuhashi<\/strong> flip-flopped world records in the 1500-meter and 800-meter freestyles for the next three years.\u00a0 In 1949, at the American Swimming Championships held in Los Angeles, Hashizume set world records in the 800-meter freestyle (9:45) and the 1500-meter freestyle (18:32.6).<\/p>\n<p>At the 1952 Helsinki Olympics, Hashizume established earned his Olympic medal, as he claimed silver in the 1500 freestyle. Hashizume finished behind only American Ford Konno.<\/p>\n<p>More recently, in 1987, Hashizume, a 1951 graduate from Nihon University Faculty of Law, was awarded Japan\u2019s prestigious Order of the Purple Ribbon \u201cShiju Hosho,\u201d an order for a person meritorious in the field of art and science.\u00a0 He was a member of the Board of Education in Yokohama City and Managing Director of the Hashizume Swimming School.<\/p>\n<p>He was inducted into the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ishof.org\/honoree\/honoree-shiro-hashizume\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">International Swimming Hall of Fame<\/a> in 1992.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Passages: World-Record Setter and Olympic Medalist Shiro Hashizume Dies at 94 ISHOF Honoree Shiro Hashizume died recently at the age of 94. 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