Day 3 Finals Dwell Recap

2024 JAPANESE OLYMPIC TRIALS

We coming into day 3 of the 7-day Japanese Olympic Trials which observe the elongated format of heats, semi-finals and finals for many of the occasions.

Tonight’s lineup consists of only one semi-final of the ladies’s 100m again which implies Olympic berths are on the road in each race thereafter.

34-year-old Ryosuke Irie will probably be featured within the males’s 100m again with the racing mainstay vying for a exceptional fifth Olympic Video games look.

The lads’s 200m free can be on the agenda, with a decent subject led by teen Konosuke Yanagimoto; nevertheless, nationwide file holder and 2019 World Championships medalist Katsuhiro Matsumoto is lurking among the many pack.

And the ladies’s 400m IM subject demonstrated its depth this morning with seven swimmers checking in at 4:43.2 or sooner. Veteran and double Olympic champion from 2020 Yui Ohashi will attempt to fend off 17-year-old Mio Narita together with top-seeded Ageha Tanigawa this night.

WOMEN’S 100 BACK – SEMI-FINAL

• Japanese Nationwide Document – 58.70 – Aya Terakawa, 2013
• Asian Document – 58.70 – Aya Terakawa, 2013
• World Document – 57.33 – Kaylee McKeown (AUS) 2023
• JASF QT – 59.49

High 8:

1. Anna Konishi, 1:00.49
2. Rio Shirai, 1:00.69
3. Miki Takahashi, 1:00.80
4. Marina Furubayashi, 1:00.94
5. Chiaki Yamamoto, 1:01.06
6. Narumi Nagaoka, 1:01.09
7. Miri Sasaki, 1:01.22
8. Yuki Hideno, 1:01.47

This ladies’s 100m again subject was void of any sub-minute ends in the semi-finals.

Anna Konish led the pack with a prime seed of 1:00.49, simply .20 forward of 24-year-old Rio Shirai. The third slot went to Miki Takahashi who clocked 1:00.80.

The Japanese Swimming Federation (JASF)-mandated qualification time of 59.49 is required to make the Olympic squad. Shirai has been below that barrier, proudly owning a lifetime better of 59.43 from 2019. She’ll seem within the 200m free remaining later on this session.

Konishi might want to surpass her career-quickest 59.62 to earn qualification whereas Takahashi’s 1:00.80 this night matches her PB from final yr’s Asian Video games. She finally positioned fifth there in Hangzhou in 1:01.01.

Of notice, fifth seed Chiaki Yamamoto is simply 16 years of age. These ladies are vying not just for particular person Olympic qualification but additionally for a spot on the medley relay.

WOMEN’S 400 IM – FINAL

• Japanese Nationwide Document – 4:30.82 – Yui Ohashi, 2018
• Asian Document – 4:28.43 – Yu Shiwen (CHN), 2012
• World Document – 4:25.87 – Summer time McIntosh (CAN), 2023
• JASF QT – 4:38.53

GOLD – 
SILVER – 
BRONZE – 

MEN’S 200 FREE – FINAL

• Japanese Nationwide Document – 1:44.65 – Katsuhiro Matsumoto, 2021
• Asian Document – 1:44.39 – Solar Yang (CHN), 2017
• World Document – 1:42.00 – Paul Biedermann (GER), 2009
• JASF QT – 1:45.84

GOLD – 
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MEN’S 100 BACK – FINAL

• Japanese Nationwide Document – 52.24 – Ryosuke Irie, 2009
• Asian Document – 51.86 – Xu Jiayu (CHN), 2017
• World Document – 51.60 – Thomas Ceccon (ITA), 2022
• JASF QT – 53.21

GOLD – 
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WOMEN’S 100 BREAST – FINAL

• Japanese Nationwide Document – 1:05.19 – Reona Aoki, 2022
• Asian Document – 1:05.19 – Reona Aoki, 2022
• World Document – 1:04.13 – Lilly King (USA), 2017
• JASF QT – 1:06.47

GOLD – 
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BRONZE – 

WOMEN’S 200 FREE – FINAL

• Japanese Nationwide Document – 1:54.85 – Rikako Ikee, 2018
• Asian Document – 1:53.92 – Siobhan Haughey (HKG), 2021
• World Document – 1:52.85 – Mollie O’Callaghan (AUS), 2023
• JASF QT – 1:56.55

GOLD – 
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WOMEN’S 50 FLY – FINAL

• Japanese Nationwide Document – 25.11 – Rikako Ikee, 2018
• Asian Document – 25.05 – Zhang Yufei (CHN), 2023
• World Document – 24.43 – Sarah Sjostrom (SWE), 2014

GOLD – 
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BRONZE –