The Japan Open, in which top swimmers participate, was held on the second day of the competition, and Katsuhiro Matsumoto, who is expected to win a gold medal at the Tokyo Olympics, won the men's 200-meter freestyle.

The Japan Open for Swimming, which is held at the Tokyo Aquatics Center in Koto-ku, Tokyo, is positioned as a prelude to the Japan Championships in April, which will be the representative selection for the Olympic Games.



Players who could not participate in the Japan Championship due to infection with the new coronavirus are exceptionally selected because the records of this tournament are subject to selection, so top players are participating.



On the 5th, the second day of the competition was held, of which Matsumoto won the silver medal at the adult world championship and participated in the men's 200-meter freestyle aiming for the gold medal at the Olympics.



Matsumoto, who passed the qualifying in 3rd place overall, got out of the early stages and pulled the race, but the last 50 meters lacked growth in the last spurt and did not reach his own Japanese record of 1 second 69 last month. , Won the championship with a time of 1'46.82.



In other events, Yui Ohashi won the women's 400-meter individual medley at 4:36:27, and the men's 100-meter backstroke, 31-year-old Ryosuke Irie won at 53.29.

Yui Ohashi "I haven't practiced simply"

Yui Ohashi, who won the women's 400-meter individual medley, said, "I passed the time, but my body was a little heavy from the first half, so I have to add a little more stamina. I haven't been practicing simply. "It's big," he said about the challenges for the Japan Championships in April, which will be the Olympic representative selection.

This is the result of the attention race on the second day of the "Japan Open".

[Men's 200m freestyle final]

1st


place:

Katsuo Matsumoto 1 minute 46 seconds 82

2nd place: Knight Ehara 1 minute 48 seconds 30


3rd place: Yuki Ikari 1 minute 48 seconds 59


4th place: Yuki Kobori 1 minute 48 seconds 74


5th place: Konosuke Yanagimoto 1 minute 48 seconds 76


6th place: Hirohiro Tanaka 1 minute 49 seconds 00


7th place: Norihiro Kimoto 1 minute 49 seconds 32


8th place: Tenma Watanabe 1 minute 49 seconds 41



(Reference)


Japan record 1 minute 45 seconds 13 / Katsuo Matsumoto

[Women's 400m Individual Medley Final]


1st place:

Yui Ohashi 4 minutes 36 seconds 27

2nd place: Sakiko Shimizu 4 minutes 38 seconds 68


3rd place: Akaha Tanigawa 4 minutes 42 seconds 45


4th place:

Mina

Muroki 4 minutes 42 seconds 50


5th place: Kazuka Kajimoto 4 Minutes 44 seconds 52


6th place: Kabane Sugiyama 4 minutes 49 seconds 22


7th place: Mao Ichido 4 minutes 49 seconds 78


8th place: Ayako Suzuki 4 minutes 52 seconds 10



(Reference)


Japan record 4 minutes 30 seconds 82 / Yui Ohashi