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2026 KOSUKE KITAJIMA CUP
Friday, January 23rd – Sunday, January 25th Tokyo Aquatics Centre LCM (50m) Meet CentralOn Friday, the 2026 Kosuke Kitajima Cup is set to kick-off from the Tokyo Aquatics Center, site of swimming action at the 2020 Olympic Games. The 3-day competition represents one of three annual ‘K’ meets, with both the annual Konami Open and Kirara Cup taking place next month.
This year’s edition of the annual elite competition is an important stepping stone on the way to the Japanese Championships in March, with that later meet representing a qualification opportunity for the 2026 Asian Games.
New as of last year for the Kosuke Kitajima Cup is the fact that 50m distances of each discipline will be held as a three-round knockout competition with 10 competitors narrowed down to 4 and then finally a head-to-head final battle.
Several key Japanese athletes are set to compete, with multiple already ranking among the world’s best thus far this 2025-26 long course season. Among them are Olympic medalist Tomoyuki Matsushita, 34-year-old mainstay Satomi Suzuki, World Championships medalist Tatsuya Murasa and University of Tennessee’s World Junior Record holder Mizuki Hirai.
Although we’re waiting on official entries, we know the following competitors are expected to appear:
Women
Suzuka Hasegawa Mizuki Hirai Rikako Ikee Nagisa Ikemoto Ichika Kajimoto Waka Kobori Hiroko Makino Myu Namba Mio Narita Satomi Suzuki
Men
Yamato Fukasawa Kosuke Makino Katsuhiro Matsumoto Tomoyuki Matsushita Naoki Mizunuma Tatsuya Murasa So Ogata Hidekazu Takezawa Taku Taniguchi Genki Terakado Ippei Watanabe
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