Tomoyuki Matsushita Fires Off 1:55.51 Private Finest In 200 IM, #2 Japanese Swimmer All-Time

102nd JAPANESE INTERCOLLEGIATE SWIMMING CHAMPIONSHIPS

• Thursday, September third – Sunday, September sixth
• Osaka, Towa Pharmaceutical Lactab Dome
• LCM (50m)
• Results

The 102nd Japanese Intercollegiate Swimming Championships concluded tonight in Osaka, with a number of the nation’s greatest swimmers diving in for a tune-up likelihood forward of this month’s Asian Games.

Following up on his monster 400m IM efficiency of 4:05.83 from evening one, Olympic silver medalist Tomoyuki Matsushita put up one other stable outing to take gold within the 200m IM.

21-year-old Matsushita stopped the clock at a speedy results of 1:55.51 to beat the again by effectively over two seconds.

The ace break up 25.11/29.33 (54.44)/33.53/27.54 en path to defeating Yuta Watanabe and Kosuke Makino, who picked up the minor medals in instances of 1:57.94 and 1:58.34, respectively.

This efficiency checked in as a brand new lifetime greatest for Matsushita, overtaking his former PB of 1:55.60 established final November on the Japan Open.

He now ranks #1 on the earth this season, represents Japan’s 2nd-fastest man in historical past and is the 14th-best performer all-time worldwide.

Top 5 Japanese Men’s LCM 200 IM Performers All-Time

1. Kosuke Hagino – 1:55.07, 2016
2. Tomoyuki Matsushita – 1:55.51, 2026
3. Daiya Seto – 1:55.55, 2020
4. Kosuke Makino – 1:55.85, 2025
5. Yumeki Kojima – 1:56.53, 2026

A trio of males delved below the 52-second barrier within the 100m butterfly, with Yoshitoku Narushima main the sphere in a mark of 51.27.

Trailing in third place on the midway mark, Narushima turned on the jets to maintain Shoon Mitsunaga at bay, with Mitsunaga settling for silver lower than half a second behind in 51.57.

Seiya Shinkai rounded out the rostrum in 51.62.

Mitsunaga is Japan’s Fifth-swiftest performer of all time on this occasion, courtesy of the 51.08 he placed on the books on the Japan Swim in March.

Narushima’s time at this competitors sliced .04 off his earlier best-ever of 51.31, whereas Shinkai additionally notched a brand new PB together with his 51.62 erasing the 51.78 logged on the Japan Swim.

Not to be ignored was the truth that 21-year-old Mitsunaga put up two spicy replay splits through the course of the meet.

Yesterday, he clocked a head-turning anchor of 47.26 on his squad’s medley relay and the day earlier than that he turned in a exceptional 47.33.

Additional Notes

• World Championships medalist Mio Narita dominated the ladies’s 200m IM, posting 2:10.51 to get to the wall over two seconds forward of her rivals. Her time of two:09.16 from final 12 months’s World Championships stays her lifetime greatest, rating her 4th amongst Japan’s all-time performers.
• The males’s 400m free noticed its competitors document go down by the hands of Asaki Nishikawa. The 20-year-old Junior Pan Pacific Championships multi-medalist cracked a mark of three:46.07 to overhaul the previous meet mark of three:47.59. Kazushi Imafuku was proper behind in 3:56.51, as Daichi Yamamoto additionally landed on the rostrum in 3:48.77, ok for bronze.
• 20-year-old Kotomi Kato acquired it performed for gold within the ladies’s 200m breast, together with her outing of two:21.72 clearing the pack by almost three seconds.
• After nabbing a brand new Japanese nationwide document of 47.83 within the males’s 100m freestyle earlier within the competitors, World Championships bronze medalist Tatsuya Murasa notched a stable break up of 1:45.12 as 2nd leg on his squad’s 4x200m free relay.