Rika Omoto finished 4th in the women's 200m individual medley of swimming at the World Swimming Championships in Hungary, but did not win a medal.
On the 19th, the final of the women's 200m individual medley of swimming was held, and Omoto who passed the semifinal in 7th place participated.
Omoto turned back 100 meters in the first half in 3rd place, but dropped one place in the breaststroke.
Although she caught up in the final freestyle, she was in 4th place with a difference of more than 1 second from 3rd place at 2 minutes 10 seconds 01 and did not win a medal.
"She was well prepared so she could take the plunge and race herself. She didn't reach the medal, but she did a good race," she said.
In the other Japanese teams, Ryosuke Irie advanced to the final in 7th place in the men's 100-meter backstroke semi-final, and Reona Aoki, who holds the Japanese record, in the women's 100-meter breaststroke semi-final. I advanced to the final in 5th place.
On the other hand, in the men's 200m freestyle semi-final, Katsuhiro Matsumoto, who won the silver medal in this event of the previous tournament, missed the final in 12th place overall, and in the women's 1500m freestyle qualifying, Miyu Namba. Did not advance to the final in 10th place overall.
In addition, in the artistic swimming, the duet technical routine final was held, and the pair of Japanese players Megumu Yoshida and Moe Higa aimed for the first medal in three tournaments as a Japanese team, but the score did not increase from the qualifying and it was 89.9444. It was 4th place.
The team had a technical routine qualifying, and Japan marked 91.2049 and advanced to the final in 2nd place.
Yoshida "I couldn't help" Higa "I want to connect next"
Megumu Yoshida, who was 4th in the technical routine of the artistic swimming and duet, said, "I decided to do my best performance and challenged the final stage, but I couldn't help."
She then she said, "I and the pair Higa felt that the world stage was not an easy place to win, so I want to connect this experience and feelings to the future."
Moe Higa, a third-year junior high school student, said, "I didn't reach the medal, but I was happy because the best performance we could do was done on the stage of the final. However, I also feel that it is still difficult to fight the world. So I want to understand why I didn't reach the medal and connect to the next one. "