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101st JAPAN SWIM
Thursday, March 19th – Sunday, March 22nd Tokyo Aquatics Center LCM (50m) Meet Central SwimSwam Preview Day 1 Recap/Day 2 Recap Live ResultsThe penultimate night of racing at the 101st Japan Swim brought the heat once again, with two more World Junior Records going down at the hands of the nation’s teenagers.
Following up his 50m breast WJR from night one, 17-year-old Shin Ohashi ripped a lifetime best and WJR of 2:06.59 to take the gold in the 200m distance, qualifying for this year’s Pan Pacific Championships and Asian Games in the process. He is now Japan’s #2 all-time performer and the 7th-best in history worldwide. You can read more about his swim here.
Later on in the program, fellow World Junior Championships medalist Yumeki Kojima powered his way to a new WJR en route to claiming silver in the 200m IM. The 17-year-old turned in a time of 1:56.53, destroying his previous PB of 1:57.32 from last year.
There were multiple additional notable performances on the evening, including by three-time Olympian Rikako Ikee in the women’s 50m fly.
25-year-old Ikee delivered a super speedy effort of 25.55 to get to the wall first in the only sub-26-second result of the pack.
Behind her was Ai Soma who snagged silver in 26.00 ahead of Kaho Shimizu who bagged the bronze in 26.30.
Not only did Ikee’s result this evening establish a new season-best but the superstar beat the 25.67 she put up for 11th place at last year’s World Championships.
She now ranks 3rd in the world on the season.
2025-2026 LCM Women 50 FLY
Gretchen USAWalsh 12/0625.182AlexandriaPERKINSAUS25.4403/073IkeeRIKAKOJPN25.5503/214Zhang YufeiCHN25.6111/165Yu YitingCHN25.7111/15View Top 26»The women’s 200m breast saw 2024 Junior Pan Pacific Championships multi-medalist Kotomi Kato exact revenge, following up her 100m breast silver with the gold tonight.
She registered a winning effort of 2:24.29 to top the podium, relegating the previous event’s gold medalist Satomi Suzuki to the runner-up position.
Suzuki hit 2:24.40 and Yuzuki Kagiya rounded out the podium in 2:27.79.
The competitors were chasing the 2:23.49 selection standard set by the Japanese Swimming Federation (JASF) in one of the rare events in which the time equals the World Aquatics ‘A’ cut instead of being much faster.
35-year-old Suzuki placed 4th in this event at the 2024 Olympic Games, posting a time there in Paris of 2:22.54. Last year at the World Championships in Singapore, the veteran was much slower, mustering just 2:26.44 to place 14th overall.
On the men’s side, 21-year-old Hidekazu Takehara proved too quick to catch en route to winning the 200m backstroke.
Takehara checked with a mark of 1:55.57, coming within .07 of his season-best 1:55.50 notched at the Intercollegiate Swimming Championships last September to rank 3rd in the world currently.
The next-closest swimmer was Kodai Nishiono who touched in 1:57.04 and Keita Sunama placed 3rd in 1:58.15.
Takehara represented the sole racer to clear the JASF-mandated QT of 1:55.64 for the Pan Pacific Championshps and Asian Games.
Aditional Notes
Nothing too crazy transpired in the men’s 100m freestyle as no competitor managed to dip under the 48-second barrier. Reigning national record holder Katsuhiro Matsumoto wound up on top, posting 48.27 in a narrow victory over World Championships bronze medalist Tatsuya Murasa. 18-year-old Murasa touched in 48.43 and Shuya Matsumoto logged 48.52, with all three men falling short of the 47.86 QT. That standard is faster than the Japanese national record of 47.86, which Matsumoto put on the books in 2023. The women’s edition of the 100m free was also on the subdued side, as it took Olympian Nagisa Ikemoto just 54.84 to claim the gold. She was the sole swimmer to beat the 55-second threshold, as Shiho Matsumoto hit 55.02 and Ayu Mizoguchi rounded out the podium in 55.30. Finally, the women’s backstroke discipline continues to be a weak spot for the nation, putting any serious medley relay threats on ice internationally. Rio Shirai owns a lifetime best of 2:07.87 in this event, a time which would have cleared the 2:09.79 QT. However, tonight she clocked just 2:10.67 to finish first. Mio Narita, an Olympic finalist in the 400m IM and co-silver medalist in Singapore last year, registered 2:10.82 and Kyoka Sawa notched 2:11.12 for bronze.Read the full story on SwimSwam: Three-Time Olympian Rikako Ikee Logs Season-Best 50 Fly To Rank #3 This Season
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