Amid Relaxed Standards, Japan Reveals 34-Strong World Championships Roster ...Middle East

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2025 JAPAN SWIM

The 2025 Japan Swim spanned Thursday, March 20th through Sunday, March 23rd and brought some of the best and brightest athletes to the Tokyo Aquatics Centre in the hopes of making the squad for this summer’s World Championships.

As a deviation from past years, the Japanese Swimming Federation (JASF) relaxed its qualification criteria for Singapore. Instead of historically stiffer standards than the World Aquatics ‘A’ standards, the JASF defaulted to those ‘A’ standards to represent the benchmarks athletes needed to surpass to make the grade.

When all was said and done, a total of 34 swimmers were named to the Japanese World Championships roster, including 19 men and 15 women.

The age range spans 17 years to 34 years, showing the depth and dedication of the Japanese top-tier contingent.

Newly minted High School National record-setter Tatsuya Murasa is just 17 years of age while 2024 Olympic finalist Satomi Suzuki is 34 years old.

Of note, Olympic medalist Daiya Seto is absent from the roster, his first time missing out on a World Championships lineup since 2013. We reported how the 30-year-old withdrew from the Japan Swim due to still feeling fallout from the broken rib he suffered last year.

Additionally, 2020 Olympic Games silver medalist in the 200m fly, Tomoru Honda, is missing. The 23-year-old placed well out of the top 2 in the men’s 200m fly but previously said he most likely would not swim in Singapore even if he had qualified.

We’ll keep an eye on the likes of 3-time Olympian Rikako Ikee, University of Tennessee commit Mizuki Hirai, Olympic finalist Mio Narita, mainstay 200m breast powerhouse Ippei Watanabe and more as they take on the world in Singapore.

Men’s Roster

Kazushi Imafuku Yamato Fukasawa Kosuke Makino Katsuhiro Matsumoto Tomoyuki Matsushita Riku Matsuyama Naoki Mizunuma Tatsuya Murasa Akira Namba Asaki Nishikawa Kodai Nishiono Hidekazu Takehara Taikan Tanaka Taku Taniguchi Takumi Terada Genki Terakado Ippei Watanabe Toshinari Yanagisawa Masaki Yura

Women’s Roster

Reona Aoki Airi Ebina Yasuki Fujimoto Mizuki Hirai Rikako Ikee Nagisa Ikemoto Ichika Kajimoto Kotomi Kato Waka Kobori Shiho Matsumoto Miyu Namba Mio Narita Satomi Suzuki Miki Takahashi Chiaki Yamamoto

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