According to interviews with officials, Kosuke Hagino, a gold medalist in the men's 400-meter individual medley for swimming at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics, will retire.
Hagino is 27 years old from Tochigi prefecture, and participated in the 2012 London Olympics for the first time in the third year of high school, and won the first bronze medal in this event in the men's 400-meter individual medley.
After entering university, he studied under coach Norimasa Hirai, who raised Kosuke Kitajima, and at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Games, where he faced as a Japanese ace, he won a gold medal in a 400-meter individual medley. Won three bronze medals.
After that, the slump continued due to the surgery on the right elbow of the old injury, and he had a difficult competitive life such as resting for about 3 months from March (2019).
At the Tokyo 2020 Games, which was held after a one-year postponement, we narrowed down the events to 200-meter individual medleys and played three consecutive games.
I wasn't able to get on the podium at the tournament, but after the 200-meter individual medley race in 6th place, I felt fulfilled, saying, "I have no regrets because I was able to swim as I wanted."
At this time, he avoided saying "I'm feeling exhausted now, so I don't know what will happen", but according to the people concerned, Hagino will be active for his affiliation by today (24th). It means that he expressed his intention to retire.