2019 JAPAN OPEN
- Thursday, May 30th – Sunday, June 1st
- Tokyo International Swimming Pool
- LCM
- World Championships Qualifying Meet
- Psych Sheets
- SwimSwam Meet Preview #1/Preview #2/Preview #3
- Day 1 Prelims Recap
- Live Results
While competing on night 1 of the 2019 Japan Open, reigning SCM 200 fly World Record holder Daiya Seto threw down an eye-catching performance in the men’s 100m breaststroke.
After establishing himself as the 2nd seeded swimmer already from the heats with a new personal best of 1:00.14, 25-year-old Seto fired off his first-ever sub-minute 100m breaststroke time of 59.79 to finish with the silver. Splits for Seto include a 28.18 opener, while the 400m IM Olympic bronze medalist closed in 31.61.
Along with his 200m fly World Record, Seto is an accomplished IMer as well, owning the aforementioned Olympic bronze from Rio, but also holding the 400m IM bronze from last year’s Pan Pacific Championships. He’s already fired off a big-time 1:56.69 200m IM from the Japan Swim in April, a time which renders the Japanese star as the 3rd ranked swimmer in the world right now.
Winning the 100m breast final tonight ahead of Seto was two-time Pan Pacs champion Yasuhiro Koseki. The 27-year-old bronze medalist from last year’s Short Course World Championships finally dipped under the 59.38 QT for Gwangju after having missed the mark at the first qualifying meet. His time was 59.12 for the win.
Seto finished ahead of bronze medalist Ippei Watanabe tonight, as the reigning 200m breast World Record holder settled for 3rd in 1:00.17.
Look for Seto to battle Singapore’s Joseph Schooling and Hungary’s Kristof Milak in the 100m and 200m fly events here in Tokyo later in the meet.
Chase swims the downhill breaststroke technique, which seems especially suited to the IM. He looks so easy and has a tremendous glide to his stroke.
Hagino won the gold in 2016 by staying near the lead the entire race. Chase fell behind in the backstroke and then couldn’t pass him. Seto might try to do the same thing, especially with his improved breaststroke.
Never mind.
But Dressel is going to beat Peaty.
Maybe but only in a pool short enough that he has to do very little actual breaststroke.
In theory, he should be better in the 200breast than the 100breast, no? 59.7 converts to 2:08 nowadays, no?
Eh depends on who you are
Isn’t that the pattern with most 400IMers
Dude is ON FIRE! Watch out, Chase…
Chase has been ready for a while now ….he knows competition is coming at him this summer and in 2020 – so i bet he trains knowing he will be challenged these 2 summers coming ….
Probably the only swimmer ever who can combo a sub-60 breast and 1:55 fly.
I wonder what Phelps could have dropped in a 100 breast in 2008…
Dressel
In a brief. With Schooling in practice.
So out of curiosity, how many people have been under 1.00 in all 4 strokes? I do not know what Seto has been in the 100bk, but considering the quality of all his strokes, I’d assume he could muster under 1.00😂. Which in itself is very impressive. As I write this… I do believe Michael Andrew has accomplished that already.
Yes MA has for sure, Brendan Hansen I think we’ve written has done it.
Don’t you mean 200 breast world record holder? Phelps have 2 fly record right?
Err, I think you meant to reply to a different comment?
I imagine basically every pro that goes sub min in breast can muster it in the other strokes. I remember Cody going 26 50 back in a vlog and that was his worst stroke and he was injured.
Shanteau, Prenot
I think to be a fair comparison we would need something like this
sub-54 100 back
sub-52 100 fly
sub-49 100 free
sub 1:00 100 breast.. And to be the minimum
Who did swim sub 52 fly?
No Idea, just took these times because it might be something comparable to sub 1:00 on 100 breast.. sub 1:00 on the rest can not be considered a challenge
Seto swam 51,94. I think he may be able to swim sub-49 100 free and sub-54 100 back
That seems reasonable. Maybe sub 51.5 fly now, with how many people are dropping quick times…