2024 JAPAN OPEN
We entered day two of the 2024 Japan Open in Tokyo with Aussie swimmers persevering with to make their marks on this three-day competitors.
The lads’s 400m free noticed Matthew Galea get it performed for gold, posting the only real time of the sphere below the three:50 barrier.
Galea hit a time of three:49.05 to get the job performed, with yesterday’s newly-minted Japanese Excessive College File holder within the 200m free, Tatsuya Murasa, settling for silver in 3:49.27. Kazushi Imafuku rounded out the rostrum in 3:50.86.
Galea has been as fast as 3:47.54 in his profession, a time registered ultimately yr’s U.S. Open Championships.
Murasa, simply 17 years of age, clocked a brand new private finest together with his outcome, overtaking his earlier PB of three:50.42. For perspective, the teenager’s new PB would rank him because the Sixteenth-best American 17-18-year-old boy ever.
Abbey Webb, additionally of Australia, doubled up on her 200m free victory from day one with a gold within the 100m free tonight.
23-year-old Webb, previously of Auburn and NC State within the NCAA, clocked 54.06 to carry a wholesome benefit over teammate Jaimie De Lutiis who held on for silver in 54.60.
Japanese Olympian Nagisa Ikemoto bagged bronze in a results of 54.63. That was the very same podium because the 200m free yesterday.
As soon as once more, Webb’s outing represents a brand new lifetime finest for the Cruiz swimmer, together with her 54.06 surpassing her earlier career-quickest outing of 54.44 from 2021. She now checks in as Australia’s Twentieth-best performer of all time on this girls’s 100m free.
De Lutiis additionally scored a brand new PB, together with her 54.60 marking simply the 2nd time she’s been below the 55-second barrier. Her earlier career-quickest stood at 54.71 produced ultimately yr’s Australian Age Championships.
For Japan, reigning Olympic silver medalist Tomoyuki Matsushita earned gold in his pet occasion of the boys’s 400m IM.
The 19-year-old punched a time of 4:11.63 to carry his teammate Asaki Nishikawa at bay. Nishikawa touched in 4:12.28 and Riku Yamaguchi collected bronze in 4:12.81.
Matsushita was Japan’s sole Olympic medalist at this yr’s Video games in Paris. He produced a time of 4:08.62 to take 4IM silver behind winner Leon Marchand of France who blasted an Olympic File of 4:02.95 en path to gold.
33-year-old Olympian Satomi Suzuki confirmed her stuff within the 50m breast, taking the occasion in a time of 30.94. Visiting Aussie teenager Sienna Toohey snagged silver in 31.26 and Yuyumi Obatake took bronze in 31.36.
Suzuki positioned a formidable 4th within the girls’s 200m breast in Paris this summer season.
Further Winners
- Nationwide document holder Katsuhiro Matsumoto stopped the clock at 48.46 to take the boys’s 100m free by greater than a second. Tomonobu Gomi was subsequent to the wall in 49.48 whereas Aussie teen Marcus Da Silva rounded out the rostrum in 49.55.
- Japanese Olympian Mio Narita, simply 17, tried the ladies’s 200m again on for measurement, producing a time of two:09.92 for the decisive gold. Nanami Ito represented the following closest swimmer, touching about 2 and a half seconds again in 2:12.41. Aimi Nagaoka clocked 2:13.10 for bronze.
- As for Narita, her time tonight was inside placing distance of the two:09.67 private finest notched on the 2022 Junior Pan Pacific Championships. We’ll control this occasion for her to see if she’ll be often including it to her lineup as a doable elite meet occasion shifting ahead.
- Hidekazu Takehara topped the boys’s 200m again podium in 1:56.92.
- The ladies’s 400m IM, void of Narita, noticed Waka Kobori take gold in 4:40.00, beating the sphere by practically 3 seconds.
- Natsuki Hiroshita gained the ladies’s 50m fly in 26.37 to guide the pack.
- Yuya Tanaka was the boys’s 50m fly winner in 23.38.
- Hayato Watanabe earned his 2nd gold this night. After topping the boys’s 100m breast final evening, he doubled up with a 50m breast victory in 27.29.
- The ladies’s 400m free noticed Olympian Miyu Namba cease the clock at 4:10.54 to beat the sphere by over a second en path to gold. Of observe, Kobori took on a tricky 400m IM/400m free double, winding up 4th on this race.
