The Japanese championship for swimming, which is the representative selection for the Tokyo Olympics, is held on the third day of the competition.
In the qualifying held in the morning, Daiya Seto participated in the men's 200m butterfly qualifying and advanced to the semifinals in the afternoon in 2nd place overall.
In this Japan Championship, if you break the standard dispatch record in the final and finish in 2nd place, you will be nominated as the representative of the Tokyo Olympics as an individual event.
On the 5th, the 3rd day of the tournament, the 4th qualifying round was held in the morning for both men and women.
Of these, in the men's 200-meter butterfly qualifying and final group races, Seto, who has already been nominated as the representative of the Tokyo Olympics in the second individual medley event, has participated in this event as well.
Seto pulled the race from the beginning and finished at the top of the group with a time of 1'56.21 and advanced to the afternoon semi-final in 2nd place overall.
On the other hand, Masato Sakai, the silver medalist of the Rio de Janeiro Olympics in this event, was 19th overall at 1: 59.51 and failed to qualify.
Rika Oomoto, the representative of the adult world championship, participated in the qualifying for the women's 200-meter individual medley, marking 2: 12.53 and advanced to the semi-finals in 1st place overall.
In addition, Yui Ohashi, who broke the standard dispatch record in the 400-meter individual medley of the day before yesterday and has been appointed as the representative of the Tokyo Olympics, marked 2: 13.30 and advanced to the semi-finals in second place overall.
Rio silver Sakai failed to qualify
Masato Sakai, who lost in the men's 200m butterfly qualifying, is 25 years old from Fukuoka prefecture.
Five years ago, he was a silver medalist at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics.
Specializing in butterflies, focusing on 200 meters, he showed a fierce catch-up in the second half of the 200 meters butterfly final at the Rio de Janeiro Games, which was his first appearance in the Olympics, and won the silver medal by a slight margin over Michael Phelps of the United States. Did.
Since 2018, I have missed the Japanese national team due to a shoulder injury, and even after surgery on my aching right shoulder, my left and right balance has continued to be lost, and I have been working on correcting the form.
In the qualifying on the 5th, I swam next to Daiya Seto, who had a Japanese record for this event and was a senior at Waseda University, but I was late from the beginning and could not show my spurt at the end, so I won a silver medal. I finished 6 seconds later than the race I did.
Sakai has also entered the men's 200-meter backstroke, which will start qualifying on the 7th.