Japanese Society for Swimming Championships Sugano won 200m backstroke on Nov. 9 at 20:31
Kimosuke Kanno, a gold medalist of the Rio de Janeiro Olympics and swimming race who was temporarily resting this season, won the men's 200-meter backstroke of the tournament held in Shizuoka Prefecture.
Ogino, who won the gold medal at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics and the men's 400m individual medley, had been refraining from participating in the tournament for about six months since February.
On the 9th, he participated in the 200m male backstroke of the Japanese adult championship held in Fuji City, Shizuoka Prefecture. In the final race, he took an active swim from the first half and won with a time of 1: 57.96.
This tournament is the last tournament for this year that will receive a strengthening designation as a candidate for the Japanese national team if the standard time is exceeded. The result was a boost towards a 200-meter individual medley on the 10th.
Mr. Kanno said, “I was able to win and I could swim with good concentration. I have focused on personal medley practice so far, so I want to concentrate.”
After returning to the race, Sugano participated in several tournaments, but the standard time was not exceeded and facilities at the National Sports Science Center could not be used.
Matsumoto takes the second freestyle
Katsuo Matsumoto, who won the silver medal for the first time as a Japanese player in the men's 200m freestyle at the World Championship, won the second class of 1500m freestyle and 200m freestyle.
On the 9th, in a hard schedule where the race between the two finals is only about 15 minutes, Matsumoto is close to 1 second to the Japanese record held at 200 meters immediately after 1500 meters 1 minute 46 Marked a good time of 51 seconds, showed the power as the leading person of this event.
Matsumoto said, “In the next year's Tokyo Olympics, there are days when there will be many races a day with individual events and relay events, so we decided to participate in two events based on the actual performance. I was tough, but I think I was able to handle it well. "