{"id":527198,"date":"2023-04-11T09:29:56","date_gmt":"2023-04-11T16:29:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=527198"},"modified":"2023-04-11T09:29:56","modified_gmt":"2023-04-11T16:29:56","slug":"rikako-ikee-leads-40-strong-japanese-team-for-fukuoka-world-championships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/rikako-ikee-leads-40-strong-japanese-team-for-fukuoka-world-championships\/","title":{"rendered":"Rikako Ikee Leads 40-Strong Japanese Team for Fukuoka World Championships"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rikako Ikee Leads 40-Strong Japanese Team for Fukuoka World Championships<\/strong><\/p>\n

Rikako Ikee<\/strong> is set to return to the World Aquatics Championships for the first time in six years after her performances at the recent Japanese trials.<\/p>\n

The Japan Swimming Federation on Monday released a roster of 40 swimmers<\/a> for Worlds in Fukuoka this July. Ikee is coming off a Japan Swim 2023 meet in which she won four titles at the Tokyo Aquatic Center and hit the qualifying A standard in two events.<\/p>\n

Ikee was diagnosed with leukemia in 2019, putting a pause on a promising youth career and limiting her to just one relay at the Tokyo Olympics. But the 22-year-old has return to health and resumed her upward trajectory.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe first day I won the 100 fly to qualify which I wasn\u2019t expecting to do, really, and managed to get on a roll from there,\u201d she said in a press release. \u201cI\u2019m not particularly happy with my times so I need to take it up a notch from here. I\u2019m looking forward to it. The Olympics was here and now it\u2019s the world championships.\u201d<\/p>\n

Japanese Championships Coverage<\/h4>\n