Ed Sommerville Leads Strong Day for Aussies at Japan Open

Ed Sommerville Leads Strong Day for Aussies at Japan Open; Teen Star Shin Ohashi Rolls in 100 Breaststroke

Australia’s Ed Sommerville headlined the primary session of finals on the Japan Open with a victory within the 200-meter freestyle. The effort led a robust evening by Aussie athletes throughout a number of occasions. But it was Sommerville who stood out, as he prevailed comfortably in his prime occasion, clocking a mark of 1:45.34. Finishing second was Japan’s Tatsuya Murasa, who touched the wall in 1:46.08, with Kai Taylor (1:46.25) inserting third.

Sommerville earned a bronze medal within the 800 freestyle relay ultimately summer season’s World Championships in Singapore, having contributed a leg throughout the preliminary heats. His time from Friday evening wasn’t far off his private better of 1:44.93, which he registered earlier within the yr and makes Sommerville the No. 4 Australian within the historical past of the occasion.

While Sommerville bested the sphere within the 200 freestyle, Australian mates Brittany Castelluzzo and Elizabeth Dekkers notched a one-two end within the 200 butterfly. Castelluzzo emerged on high with a swim of two:06.96, with Dekkers following a bit greater than a half-second again in 2:07.59. Meanwhile, Jenna Forrester was the winner of the 200 freestyle in 1:58.90.

Opposite ends of the age spectrum grabbed first-place showings within the 100 breaststroke occasions. In the ladies’s version, 34-year-old Satomi Suzuki went 1:06.92 to edge the tandem of Canada’s Sophie Angus (1:07.06) and Hong Kong’s Siobhan Haughey (1:07.07). Haughey opted to bypass the 200 freestyle and provides a run on the 100 breaststroke, a secondary occasion in her arsenal, however one which demonstrates her underappreciated versatility.

The males’s 100 breaststroke noticed 16-year0-old Shin Ohashi put up a time of 59.38 to simply defeat Reo Okura (59.84). Ohashi is a rising star within the sport and at present owns the highest time on this planet within the 200 breaststroke, which he’ll race later within the meet.

It was an all-Japan ultimate within the males’s 200 butterfly, the place Genki Terakado was quickest in 1:54.87. Terakado was the one swimmer to go sub-1:55, however So Ogata (1:55.39) and Keigo Fukuda (1:55.90) broke the 1:56 barrier. In the boys’s 100 backstroke, Takehara Hidekazu was the winner in 53.96.

Canadian Ingrid Wilm claimed first place within the 100 backstroke, as her time of 59.36 received her to the end forward of Aussie Iona Anderson (59.92).

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