Katsuhiro Matsumoto, 200m freestyle men's swimming race, set a new record for short waterways in Japan November 1, 5:03
In the international swimming league, Katsuhiro Matsumoto set a new Japanese record for the short waterway of 1: 41.77 in the men's 200m freestyle.
The International Swimming League, which was launched last year, is a team competition in which athletes from each country belong to a team and race in a pool with a short waterway of 25 meters, and this is held in Hungary.
Matsumoto participated as a member of a team called "Tokyo Frog Kings" to which Japanese players belong, and on the 31st, participated in the men's 200m freestyle for the second time in this tournament.
This event is the specialty of Matsumoto, who won the silver medal at the world championship last year and is aiming for the gold medal at the Tokyo Olympics. In the race, if he actively skipped from the first half and took the lead, he returned at a faster pace than his own Japanese record. I did.
In the second half, there was a scene where he was overtaken by a British player who was a bronze medal at last year's world championship, but he overtook at the last 25 meters and finished at the top.
The time was 1: 41.77, breaking his own short waterway Japan record of 0.33, which he marked at the national tournament on October 17.
Matsumoto said, "I could see that I was overtaken, but I was able to swim tenaciously. I'm glad I got the time, but the match is still going on, so I'm not satisfied and I want to improve the time even more." ..
This tournament is a team competition, and the points of the teams won, such as the order of arrival of each player, will determine whether or not to advance to the next semi-final.
On this day, Yasuhiro Koseki took first place in the men's 100-meter breaststroke, marking 56.11 seconds in line with his own Japanese record, and in the men's 400-meter individual medley, Kosuke Hagino set a record from the previous race. He contributed to the team by marking 4 minutes 1 second 52, which shortens by more than 1 second, to take 1st place.
The next race for Japanese players will be held on the 5th.