Competition Swim Hagino to participate in the Japanese championship 400 meter individual medley March 9 17:10
Kosuke Hagino has entered the third event, including a 400-metre individual medley for men, at the Japan Swimming Championships in April, which will be the Tokyo Olympics selection competition.
Hagino, who won the gold medal in the 400-metre individual medley at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics men, took a temporary rest last year because of a malfunction, and has since returned to the competition but has been unable to achieve the desired results.
In the domestic tournament he participated in last month, he did not fall to fourth place more than 14 seconds later than his own Japanese record in a 400-meter individual medley, and after the race, Hagino said he would like to talk with his coach about the Japanese championship event. I was just staying.
According to officials, after that, Hagino discussed the events of the Japanese Championship by 9th, and entered the men's 400m individual medley, the men's 200m individual medley, and the third men's 200m freestyle. That is.
The selection of the individual event for the Tokyo Olympics swimming competition will be conducted in a so-called "one-shot match" in which a job offer is offered to the second-ranked athlete who broke the dispatch standard record at the Japanese Championships in April.
Hagino entered the men's 400-metre individual medley and the men's 200-metre individual medley, which have been decided by Daiya Seto, who won the gold medal at the World Championships last year, so the remaining one frame will be contested.