2023 JAPAN SWIMMING
We noticed the penultimate evening of motion unfold in Tokyo on the 2023 Japan Swim, the competitors marking the one qualifying match for the World Championship this summer season.
Katsuhiro Matsumoto The lads kicked off the celebration with the most effective shot of a lifetime within the 100m butterfly. The 26-year-old snatched gold in a super-fast 50.96, changing into the 2nd man from Japan to clear the 51-second hurdle.
nationwide registrar Naoki Mizunuma He took the silver medal in 51.35 and each males handed the 51.67 time normal for Fukuoka mandated by the Japanese Swimming Federation (JASF).
However the males’s 100m occasion wasn’t the one dazzling butterfly race of the evening.
22 yr previous leukemia affected person Rikako Ikee The women swam in a giant 50m fly and set the pool on hearth. Ikee reached the highest of the rostrum in a time of 25.59 and earned their World Championship qualification within the course of.
Ikee comfortably beat second place Moon Soma Whereas hitting 25.85 Mizuki Hirai He completed high 3 at 26.48.
As for Ikee, its 25.59 right here represents its 2nd quickest efficiency on the best way again since spending practically all of 2019 in therapy. He posted a time of 25.56 on the 2021 Japan Olympic Trials.
With a end result befitting Fukuoka, Ikee is now ranked third on the earth for the season.
| 2 | Chang Yufei |
CHN | 25.32 | 03/24 |
| 3 | Rikaco ikee |
JPN | 25.59 | 04/08 |
| 4 | Maaike de Waard |
NED | 25.64 | 12/04 |
| 5 | Angelina Kohler |
GERMANY | 25.75 | 03/31 |
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This 50m fly represents Ikee’s third title in these Championships because it has gained gold within the 100m fly and 100m freestyle occasions.
For the third time, he was enticing by way of World Championship {qualifications}. Rio Shirai.
23-year-old Shirai did it within the girls’s 200m again after falling behind in each the 100m again and 200m freestyle.
Shirai recorded a time of two:10.01, surpassing the JASF time normal of two:10.39. Cut up by 1:02.49/1:07.52, Shirai was properly behind his 2019 private report of two:07.87, however nonetheless bought the job performed tonight. He’s at the moment ranked thirteenth on the earth this season.
Further Winners
- Waka Kobori she topped the ladies’s 800m freestyle podium in a time of 8:26.71, simply exterior her finest 8:26.67 of her life.
- abutments Shinri Shioura And Katsumi Nakamura He dueled within the 50 meter freestyle, hitting the wall first. Shioura was simply behind with 21.99 and Nakamura with 22.03. Masahiro Kawane He bought the bronze bag at 22.10, whereas 3 of them fell exterior the 21.96 time rule.
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