10TH SUMMER CHALLENGE MEET (JPN)
- Saturday, June twenty ninth & Sunday, June thirtieth
- Sagamihara, Kanagawa, Japan
- LCM (50m)
- Day 1 Recap
- Outcomes
A number of Japanese stars took on the tenth Summer time Problem Meet to sharpen and tune-up forward of the 2024 Paris Olympic Video games starting nearly a month from now.
A handful of them repeated the occasions through which they raced yesterday, together with 17-year-old Tatsuya Murasa who took on the 200m freestyle each days.
Yesterday the teenager logged a successful results of 1:46.59 to determine a brand new lifetime finest and Japanese Nationwide Excessive College File.
Tonight, Murasa was a half-second off that mark, placing up a still-impressive results of 1:47.09.
That acquired him to the wall forward of nationwide champion Katushiro Matsumoto who settled for silver in 1:48.41. Konosuke Yanagimoto additionally landed on the rostrum, registering 1:48.72 for bronze.
33-year-old Satomi Suzuki received the ladies’s 200m breast on day one in an outing of two:25.30 and she or he repeated the occasion tonight.
The Olympic qualifier touched in 2:24.56 to hurry up by slightly below a second, decisively taking the race as the one swimmer to delve underneath the two:30 barrier. She took this occasion on the Japanese Olympic Trials in a time of two:23.09.
Teen Mio Narita punched a head-turning time of 4:36.03 en path to topping the ladies’s 400m IM podium.
That acquired the sting over runner-up Waka Kobori who nabbed 4:38.56 whereas Ageha Tanigawa bagged bronze in 4:45.04.
Simply 17 years of age, Narita represents Japan’s Third-swiftest ladies’s 400m IM performer in historical past. She clocked a time of 4:35.40 at Japan’s Olympic Trials so tonight’s outing fell simply over half a second shy of the teenager’s quickest of all time with Paris on the horizon.
Lastly, within the males’s 200m fly, Olympic silver medalist Tomoru Honda improved upon his 1:55.72 from yesterday.
Tonight the 22-year-old scored a time of 1:54.68 to get the job accomplished, splitting as follows: 25.29/28.66 (53.95)/29.71/31.02 (1:00.73).
After the race, Honda instructed Asian media, “I swam properly as much as 150 (meters). If I can get the final 50 meters so as, I feel I’ll be capable to compete in the actual factor.
I’d wish to run a time within the 1 minute 51 second vary within the (Olympic) closing and win the gold medal.” (Nikkan Sports activities)
Further Notes
- Genki Terakado sneaked into the wall forward of Matsumoto within the males’s 100m fly, with the previous touching in 51.66 to the latter’s 51.70.
- The lads’s 200m breast noticed Yu Hanaguruma notch 2:09.76 because the gold medalist.
