{"id":7171,"date":"2004-04-20T09:26:36","date_gmt":"2004-04-20T14:26:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/uncategorized\/2004\/04\/japanese-olympic-trials-day-one-miki-smashes-asian-record-in-400-im-yamada-nips-shibata-to-take-a-fast-400-free\/"},"modified":"2014-07-25T15:54:45","modified_gmt":"2014-07-25T22:54:45","slug":"japanese-olympic-trials-day-one-miki-smashes-asian-record-in-400-im-yamada-nips-shibata-to-take-a-fast-400-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/japanese-olympic-trials-day-one-miki-smashes-asian-record-in-400-im-yamada-nips-shibata-to-take-a-fast-400-free\/","title":{"rendered":"Japanese Olympic Trials, Day One: Miki Smashes Asian Record in 400 IM; Yamada Nips Shibata to Take a Fast 400 Free"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Hideki Mochizuki<\/p>\n<p>TOKYO, April 20.  TIMES were fast and one Japanese national record was wiped off the books as the six day-long Japanese Olympic Trials got underway today at the Tatsumi International Aquatic Center in Tokyo. <\/p>\n<p>The highlight of the first night came in the men&#39;s 400m IM when Jiro Miki smashed the Japanese record with a 4.14.79.  The time is is also an Asian record. <\/p>\n<p>Taking the lead at 150m mark with 1.30.41, Miki swam a swift breaststroke leg, clocking 1.12.31, to confirm his lead over the rest of the field.  Second place went to Susumu Tabuchi, who also secured an Olympic berth, as his 4:15.74 bettered the time standard set by the Japanese Swimming Federation. <\/p>\n<p>Tabuchi tried hard to catch Miki on the freestyle leg, but Miki just escaped, touching in 4.14.79. Former Asian and Japanese record-holder Takahiro Mori sank to third place with a 4.17.85 and now must rely on the 200 IM &#8212; a stronger race for him &#8212; to fulfill his Olympic dream. <\/p>\n<p>Miki\u2019s 4.14.79 was equal to the world&#39;s third-fastest time in 2003.  Right after the race, he told <b>SwimInfo<\/b>: &quot;I just thought about going out fast right from the start. The race went just as my coach had planned it.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>In the men&#39;s 100m breaststroke semifinals, world record-holder Kosuke Kitajima turned in a mediocre (for him) 1:00.99.  After turning at the 50 meter mark in 28.72 seconds, Kitajima looked sluggish and only swam 32.27 in the back half of his race.<\/p>\n<p>The other seven finalists all swam 1:02s.<\/p>\n<p>After the race, Kitajima&#39;s coach commented: &quot;He usually becomes like a beast when he is &#39;on,&#39; but tonight he could not pull it off.  Tomorrow\u2019s final will be a different race.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In the women&#39;s 400m freestyle, short course world record-holder over 800 meters, Sachiko Yamada posted a solid 4.07.62, just nipping Ai Shibata at 4:07.71. These are the world&#39;s two fastest times thus far this year.<\/p>\n<p>Yamada noted: &quot;It was good that I secured my ticket to Athens but the race itself was not the one I planned and I died at the end. In Athens, I want to go to the final with 10 percent of my power.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In today&#39;s other finals, Takeshi Matsuda took the men&#39;s 400m free in 3:50.88 while 17 year-old Misa Amano went 4:43.72 to win the women&#39;s 400m IM.<\/p>\n<p><b>Swmifinals<\/b><br \/>\nIn semifinal action, 29 year-old Junko Onishi clocked 59.09 in the 100m fly, just 3-tenths off the national record.  Yuko Nakanishi went 59.71 to record the only other sub-minute time.<\/p>\n<p>Tomomi Morita sits comfortably in first after the men&#39;s 100m back semis, as his 54.82 leads the field by more than half a second.<\/p>\n<p>RESULTS<\/p>\n<p>Womens 100m Butterfly Semi-Final (Japan record: 58.79) Top 8 finishers<br \/>\n1 Junko Onishi    1974\/10\/18 27.93 59.09<br \/>\n2 Yuko Nakanishi 1981\/04\/24 28.30 59.71<br \/>\n3 Yurie Yano 1988\/06\/24 28.40 1:00.04<br \/>\n4 Ayako Doi 1980\/06\/29 28.63 1:00.27<br \/>\n5 Kozue Watanabe 1986\/04\/10 28.31 1:00.38<br \/>\n6 Maki Mita 1983\/04\/22  28.65 1:00.59<br \/>\n7 Saori Haruguchi  1987\/01\/20   28.36 1:00.96<br \/>\n8 Yukiko Osada 1981\/05\/14 28.69 1:01.07 <\/p>\n<p>Men 100m Backstroke  Semi-Final (Japan record: 54.54) Top 8 finishers<br \/>\n1 Tomomi Morita  1984\/08\/22   26.74 54.82<br \/>\n2 Atsushi Nishikori 1978\/05\/22 27.09 55.38<br \/>\n3 Junichi Miyashita  1983\/10\/17   26.99 55.52<br \/>\n4 Mizuki Wakabayashi 1981\/06\/22 27.07 55.64<br \/>\n5 Shohei Uchida   1987\/01\/09    27.38 56.14<br \/>\n6 Junya Koga   1987\/07\/19  27.16 56.19<br \/>\n7 Masafumi Yamaguchi   1984\/12\/07    27.28 56.26<br \/>\n7 Toshifumi Takeuchi  1983\/05\/09   27.27 56.26 <\/p>\n<p>Men 100m Breaststroke Semi-Final (Japan record: 59.78) Top 8 finishers<br \/>\n1 Kosuke Kitajima 1982\/09\/22   28.72 1:00.99<br \/>\n2 Makoto Yamashita  1983\/05\/27   29.36 1:02.22<br \/>\n3 Genki Imamura  1982\/03\/17 29.82 1:02.23<br \/>\n4 Yoshihisa Yamaguchi  1982\/06\/27  29.06 1:02.31<br \/>\n5 Mitsuhiro Yoshida  1982\/11\/22   29.41 1:02.57<br \/>\n6 Takehiko Mizuta  1983\/07\/27  29.59 1:02.82<br \/>\n7 Yohei Nakagawa  1984\/07\/05  29.90 1:02.88<br \/>\n8 Shigenori Sato   1979\/11\/15 29.85 1:02.90 <\/p>\n<p>Men 400m IM Final  (Japan record: 4:15.29)<br \/>\n1 Jiro Miki 1983\/05\/31  4:14.79 Japanese, Asian Record<br \/>\n26.94 57.63 1:30.41 2:02.84 2:38.67 3:15.15 3:45.74<br \/>\n2 Susumu Tabuchi 1980\/07\/02 4:15.74<br \/>\n27.50 58.05 1:31.15 2:04.03 2:39.90 3:16.29 3:46.27<br \/>\n3  Takahiro Mori  1980\/03\/02 4:17.85<br \/>\n27.10 58.44 1:32.21 2:05.10 2:40.77 3:17.17 3:47.79<br \/>\n4 Shinya Taniguchi   1981\/03\/23 4:19.35<br \/>\n27.79 58.91 1:33.63 2:07.16 2:43.21 3:19.21 3:50.04<br \/>\n5  Hidemasa Sano    1984\/05\/28    4:19.99<br \/>\n27.11 57.49 1:31.74 2:05.52 2:43.24 3:21.16 3:51.56<br \/>\n6  Yuta Shoji   1984\/10\/20   4:21.69<br \/>\n27.43 58.61 1:31.93 2:04.83 2:43.27 3:21.83 3:53.15<br \/>\n7  Yasuaki Mori   1983\/04\/22  4:22.01<br \/>\n27.88 59.34 1:33.17 2:05.64 2:43.45 3:21.67 3:52.44<br \/>\n8 Jun Yoshii  1982\/07\/14    4:24.68<br \/>\n26.93 57.82 1:32.43 2:06.63 2:42.99 3:19.84 3:52.02<\/p>\n<p>Men 400m Freestyle  Final  (Japan record: 3:50.36)<br \/>\n1 Takeshi Matsuda   1984\/06\/23  3:50.88<br \/>\n26.19 54.70 1:24.05 1:53.64 2:23.43 2:53.27 3:22.69<br \/>\n2 Shunichi Fujita   1982\/05\/27   3:51.13<br \/>\n26.29 55.04 1:24.37 1:53.77 2:23.47 2:53.39 3:22.72<br \/>\n3 Hisato Matsumoto   1984\/10\/05   3:51.40<br \/>\n26.96 55.72 1:25.00 1:54.55 2:24.03 2:53.78 3:23.29<br \/>\n4 Naoya Sonoda  1982\/12\/31   3:55.43<br \/>\n27.06 56.32 1:26.12 1:56.08 2:26.07 2:56.76 3:27.07<br \/>\n5 Yasunori Mononobe   1985\/05\/30   3:57.26<br \/>\n27.31 56.32 1:26.04 1:56.14 2:26.51 2:57.20 3:27.93<br \/>\n6 Sho Uchida 1987\/09\/28  3:57.30<br \/>\n27.09 55.86 1:25.30 1:55.20 2:25.39 2:56.00 3:26.97<br \/>\n7 Yasuhiro Kurita   1986\/07\/11    3:58.12 ( 0.72)<br \/>\n26.89 56.34 1:26.40 1:56.82 2:27.20 2:57.82 3:28.63<br \/>\n8 Gen Ishimura  1985\/09\/24    3:58.79<br \/>\n27.16 56.36 1:26.09 1:56.31 2:26.48 2:57.18 3:28.02<\/p>\n<p>Womens 400m IM Final  (Japan record: 4:35.96)<br \/>\n1 Misa Amano   1986\/10\/15    4:43.72<br \/>\n31.35 1:06.10 1:43.53 2:20.28 2:59.34 3:39.18 4:11.61<br \/>\n2 Sawami Fujita   1984\/04\/25   4:46.90<br \/>\n29.60 1:03.41 1:40.21 2:16.03 2:57.93 3:40.58 4:13.86<br \/>\n3 Megumi Inoue   1986\/01\/05    4:48.05<br \/>\n30.22 1:04.64 1:41.61 2:17.48 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