2026 Sydney Open: Japan’s Tatsuya Murasa Places Up 1:45.84 200 Free

2026 SYDNEY OPEN & UNISPORT NATIONALS

We entered day two of the 2026 Sydney Open and Unisport Nationals, going down on the Sydney Olympic Park Aquatic Centre, with the three-day affair providing a first-rate racing alternative for home swimmers to tune up forward of subsequent month’s Commonwealth Games Trials.

There is a powerful Japanese contingent racing on the meet as properly, giving them an opportunity to tackle some international competitors as preparation for this yr’s prestigious Asian Games.

World Championships medalist Tatsuya Murasa placed on a present within the males’s 200m freestyle, topping the rostrum in an excellent swift in-season effort of 1:45.84.

Splitting 24.96/26.75 (51.71)/27.15/26.98, Murasa obtained to the wall over a second forward of the pack en path to coming inside placing distance of his season-best. That faster mark stays on the 1:45.15 notched on the Japan Swim in March to at the moment rank fifth on the planet.

19-year-old Murasa was a shock bronze medalist on this occasion on the 2025 World Championships, ripping a brand new lifetime greatest and nationwide report of 1:44.54 in Singapore.

Tonight it was 21-year-old Edward Sommerville who claimed the silver, producing a stable results of 1:46.98.

That held off 19-year-old Nishikawa Asaki of Japan, who adopted up his 400m free victory from final evening with a time of 1:47.88, adequate for bronze.

Another swimmer who doubled up on an evening one victory was 17-year-old phenom Shin Ohashi.

The World Junior Championships multi-medalist received final evening’s 200m breast (2:09.93) and likewise claimed the 100m dash this night in 59.40, the only mark below the minute barrier.

28-year-old nationwide report holder Sam Williamson was subsequent to the wall in 1:00.39, with Joshua Anderson rounding out the rostrum in 1:01.37.

As for Ohashi, the teenager at the moment ranks #2 on the planet within the 1breast occasion, courtesy of the 58.67 WJR he registered on the Japan Swim.

Three-time Olympian Rikako Ikee dove in for 2 occasions, along with her schedule together with the ladies’s 100m fly and 50m free.

The 25-year-old discovered success within the former, hitting a time of 58.78 for the decisive win.

Teammate and World Championships medalist Mio Narita turned in a time of 59.89 because the runner-up, with Shiho Matsumoto putting third in 59.91.

As for the 50m free, it was 20-year-old Bond ace Hannah Casey who captured the gold, placing up a swim of 25.27.

Ikee settled for silver in 25.48, with countrywoman Ai Soma additionally dipping below the 26-second threshold in 25.98.

21-year-old William Petric of Nunawading delivered a time of 1:58.68 as the only contestant within the males’s 200m IM to clear the two:00 threshold.

Petric’s profitable outcome represents the Tenth-swiftest time of his younger profession, one which boasts a PB of 1:57.18 from the 2025 Queensland Championships to rank eighth on the planet in the mean time.

Olympic silver medalist Tomoyuki Matsushita snagged the silver this night in 2:00.36 whereas David Schlicht bagged the bronze in 2:02.25.

Additional Notes

• The ladies’s 400m free noticed 21-year-old Sarah Locke seize the gold, hitting 4:14.52 for a cushty lead over her opponents. Casey was again within the water for this occasion after her 50m fly, incomes the silver in 4:17.42. Georgie Roper rounded out the rostrum in 4:20.62.
• 18-year-old Zoe Ammundsen topped the ladies’s 100m again podium in a results of 1:01.21. Elizabeth Gan touched after in 1:02.75, with Narita carefully behind for bronze in 1:02.85.
• Tilly King of Bond put up the quickest time of the ladies’s 200m breaststroke last, hitting the wall in 2:32.89. Alannah Torrance reached the end in 2:33.47 for silver and Brisbane Grammar’s Elaine Chu captured bronze in 2:37.14.
• Asaki upgraded his bronze from the 200m free to gold within the 800m distance, registering an effort of seven:55.76, a brand new lifetime greatest. He now ranks as Japan’s Twelfth-fastest man in historical past. Tommy Neill settled for silver in 7:58.11, a brand new PB for him, as Bond’s Thomas Hauck additionally landed on the rostrum in 8:18.90, adequate for bronze.
• Japan’s Hidekazu Takehara received the lads’s 200m again in 1:57.11, narrowly defeating home two-time Olympian Se-Bom Lee, who touched a hair behind in 1:57.27. Stuart Swinburn landed a time of 1:58.04 for third place. Takehara at the moment ranks sixth on the planet on account of the 1:55.50 notched at September’s Intercollegiate Championships.
• Bond’s Ben Armbruster led a trio of sub-24-second swimmers within the males’s 50m fly. The 24-year-old produced a gold medal-worthy outing of 23.42 to present him the sting over Japan’s Katsuhiro Matsumoto. Matsumoto touched in 23.84, with Shoon Mitsunaga amassing bronze in 23.89. Mitsunaga not too long ago put up a time of 23.06 in March to match the Japanese nationwide report Taikan Tanaka placed on the books final yr.