63RD JAPANESE SHORT COURSE CHAMPIONSHIPS
- Saturday, October 16th & Sunday, October 17th
- Tatsumi International Swimming Center, Tokyo, Japan
- SCM (25m)
- Qualifier for 2021 FINA Short Course World Championships
- Entries (in Japanese)
- SwimSwam Preview
- Day 1 Recap
- Results (in Japanese)
- Livestream
The Japanese men’s breaststroke has been on fire at these Short Course Championships, with Yuya Hinomoto producing a new national record in the 100m breast yesterday while another standard bit the dust here on day 2.
While competing in the fast and furious 50m breaststroke, racing mainstay Yasuhiro Koseki nailed the fastest time of his career, posting a monster 25.91 to take gold.
After clinching the 3rd seed out of this morning’s heats, registering a prelim swim of 26.13, Koseki found another gear to get under 26 seconds for the first time in his career. The 29-year-old’s previous personal best in short course rested at the 26.01 he logged just last month as a member of the Tokyo Frog Kings.
Tonight’s 25.91 also clocks a new Asian continental record as well. Koseki’s outing sits just outside the list of top 15 performers all-time in this event.
yuya got disqualified on the 50 from yesterday. koseki moves up to first and the Japanese record holder
Seto got disqualified on 200 breast today too. Both illegal kicks.
It happens
It happens a lot. The definition of what a legal breastroke looks like is being pushed in a number of areas.
I’m not sure if this will sound like I’m blaming them but I think the top sprint breaststrokers in the world led by peaty and shymanovich play a big role in this considering they’re the main guys pushing the boundaries on how far a human can go for the sprint breaststroke and I think everyone else behind are kind of pressured to keep up and end up doing shit like illegal kicks and under waters. This might just be me chatting shi tho
Kanako Watanabe is now coached by Akihiro Yamaguchi, former world record holder( at age 17). It seems going very well with her new best times.
I’m not sure if it’s just confirmation bias, but I’ve observed that in general, many of the elite Japanese swimmers are superb in-season swimmers, with not that much of a drop (if any) at the championship meets.
I certainly can’t think of an equivalent to e.g. Townley Haas.
Last guys I can think of that dropped big time during champs was Kitajima and prime hagino. Aside from those two I can’t really think of any
What is in that pool water?
Japanese samurai ninjutsu buddha water
Why are there people downvoting this lol
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