2024 JAPANESE OLYMPIC TRIALS
We’re almost midway by the 2024 Japanese Olympic Trials, and the fourth day of prelims showcased the lads’s 200 butterfly, males’s 100 freestyle, girls’s 1500 freestyle, girls’s 100 freestyle, and males’s 200 breaststroke.
All the occasions talked about above, except for the ladies’s 1500 free, will characteristic semifinals later immediately. Finals of the ladies’s 100 again and males’s 800 free may even happen tonight, with the ladies’s 1500 free last scheduled for Thursday night.
26-year-old Takumi Terada (1:55.92) claimed victory within the last warmth of the lads’s 200 fly, touching in the one sub-1:56 time. Terada owns a greatest time of 1:54.81 on this occasion, a time he placed on the books on the 2023 Japanese Nationwide Championships, which passed off in early April of 2023.
Tomoru Honda, the newly-minted World Champion within the occasion from simply final month, touched 2nd within the warmth at 1:56.37. Earlier within the week, Honda missed the 400 IM last with a tenth place end in prelims, regardless of having a sub-4:10 greatest time.
Honda has been as swift as 1:52.70 on this fly distance, and gained the 2024 world title with a time of 1:53.88. His lifetime greatest sits proper exterior Daiya Seto‘s nationwide document of 1:52.53. Honda swam with a sprained ankle at February’s World Championship meet, earlier than finally pulling out of the meet fully after his gold medal-winning 200 fly.
Terada and Honda will transfer into the semifinals as the highest two seeds, and Japan’s Olympic qualifying time of 1:55.27 will definitely be on their thoughts as soon as the ultimate rolls round. Nationwide document holder Seto checked-in at fifth total, advancing safely together with his 1:57.62 clocking. Regardless of putting 2nd throughout Monday’s 400 IM last, Seto missed the Japanese Olympic qualifying customary by 0.19, so he has not formally made the Olympic staff but.
The lads’s 100 free noticed 15 swimmers break the 50-second barrier, with Reo Sakata main the best way in a brand new greatest time of 49.14. The-28-year-old’s earlier greatest was set almost a decade in the past, when he touched the wall in 49.28 on the Japan Collegiate Championships.
Katsuhiro Matsumoto recorded the 2nd quickest effort of the morning in 49.32, and he’s been as fast as 47.85 in his profession. He already booked his ticket to Paris through a 1st place end within the 200 free, the place he hit the qualifying time in 1:45.29.
Search for Matsumoto within the 100 fly later within the week too, the place he owns a sub-51 time of fifty.96. Although unrelated to this prelims session, that race appears to be like to be an actual scorcher, with nationwide document holder Naoki Mizunuma (50.81), Takeshi Kawamoto (51.00), and Shinnosuke Ishikawa (51.11) among the many deep area.
Longtime contributor to the Japanese Nationwide Staff, 30-year-old Katsumi Nakamura (49.44), sits in fifth heading into semifinals. He was the earlier nationwide document holder together with his 47.87 outing on the 2018 Kosuke Kitajima Cup, however Matsumoto has since lowered it to 47.85. Of notice, the Japanese Olympic customary sits at 47.97.
The quickest two 1500 freestyle occasions for the ladies passed off in warmth two, the place 27-year-old Yukimi Moriyama (16:16.39) outpaced 22-year-old Airi Ebina (16:17.75) by simply over a second. Abina’s swim represents a brand new private greatest whereas Moriyama put up a time of 16:13.74 again in 2019.
Within the girls’s 100 free, Rikako Ikee was the only consultant beneath the 55-second barrier. She logged a morning effort of 54.74, and her lifetime greatest rests because the 52.79 that she produced on the 2018 Kosuke Kitajima Cup. Ikee is already certified to signify Japan in Paris, as she notched a qualification time en path to 2nd place within the 100 fly.
Nagisa Ikemoto was the closest pursuer to Ikee this morning, touching in 55.00. Ikemoto clocked a time of 54.11 final August, which nonetheless stands as her greatest time.
The lads’s 200 breast capped off the session, and it is likely to be probably the most aggressive occasion of the meet. Three of the 4 quickest performers in Japanese historical past are competing this week:
- Shoma Sato – 2:06.40, 2021
- Ippei Watanabe – 2:06.67, 2017
- Akihiro Yamaguchi – 2:07.01, 2012
- Yamato Fukasawa – 2:07.07, 2024
This morning, it was former world document holder Ippei Watanabe (2:10.40) who made his presence identified, notching the quickest time heading into semifinals. Nationwide document holder Shoma Sato was subsequent to Watanabe within the last warmth, touching in 2:11.77 for fifth total.
Rising star Yamato Fukasawa clocked-in at 2:10.86, the 2nd quickest efficiency of the session. He posted a time of two:07.07 final month, which ranks him because the 4th quickest performer in nationwide historical past.
Yu Hanaguruma located himself at third total, ending in a time of two:11.06. He owns a career-best of two:07.99, which he placed on the board on the 2022 World Championship Trials. Hanagura and Watanabe tied for 2nd within the 100 breast earlier this week, touching in equal 59.47s, finally lacking the qualification customary of 59.26.
