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101st JAPAN STUDENT SWIMMING CHAMPIONSHIPS
Thursday, September 4th – Sunday, September 7th Tokyo Aquatics Centre LCM (50m) Day 1 Recap/Day 2 Recap ResultsThe penultimate night of racing at the 101st Japan Student Swimming Championships unfolded from the Tokyo Aquatics Centre with multiple World Championships athletes taking to the pool.
Following up on her 800m free victory from last night, 21-year-old open water ace Ichika Kajimoto topped the women’s 400m free podium.
Kajimoto stopped the clock at a rapid mark of 4:06.81 to establish a new meet record.
Her effort erased the former benchmark of 4:07.27 en route to beating the field by nearly 3 seconds. Runner-up status went to Rin Matsuzaki who touched in 4:09.63 followed by Yoshion Nagao who logged 4:09.87.
Kajimoto’s 4:06.81 outing now renders her Japan’s 4th-swiftest 400m freestyle performer in history.
Top 5 Japanese Women’s LCM 400 Freestyle Performers All-Time
Ai Shibata – 4:05.19, 2007 Miyu Namba – 4:05.25, 2022 Waka Kobori – 4:05.57, 2020 Ichika Kajimoto – 4:06.81, 2025 Sachiko Yamada – 4:07.23, 2022As a refresher, in Singapore, Kajimoto won gold for Japan in the 3k knockout sprints and also earned bronze in the women’s 5k race.
The men’s 200m IM saw Olympic Games and World Championships silver medalist Tomoyuki Matsuhita get it done for gold in a stellar result of 1:56.58.
The 20-year-old spit 25.31/30.50/33.95/26.82 as he registered a time just off his lifetime best of 1:56.35. That slightly quicker result was put on the books at this year’s World Championships Trials.
In Singapore, Matsushita settled for 6th place in the 2IM with a mark of 1:57.52.
This evening So Ogata produced a still-speedy 1:57.28 as runner-up and Kosuke Makino rounded out the podium in 1:57.48. Makino’s time obliterated the 1:59.25 he put up for 8th place in the World Championships final.
Additional Winners
Narumi Nagaoka took the women’s 100m backstroke gold in a time of 1:00.45. The men’s 100m back saw Hidekazu Takehara post 53.76 as the victor. Asaki Nishikawa logged an outing of 3:48.28 to win the men’s 400m free in the only sub-3:50 result of the race.Read the full story on SwimSwam: Tomoyuki Matsushita Hits 1:56.58 200 IM At JPN Student Championships
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