2024 TOKYO NEW YEAR MEET
Saturday, January sixth & Sunday, January Seventh
Tokyo, Japan
SCM (25m)
Outcomes
The 2024 Tokyo New 12 months Meet kicked off immediately with a number of large weapons within the water to start their yr of racing.
Double Olympic gold medalist Yui Ohashi started her marketing campaign with a victory within the girls’s 200m freestyle. The 28-year-old produced a profitable time of 1:56.71 to get to the wall first, beating out runner-up Hiroko Makino by simply .10.
Makino hit 1:56.81 because the runner-up whereas Chiho Mizuguchi represented the one different competitor to get beneath the two:00 barrier.
Ohashi’s outing represented a brand new private finest, shaving .06 off the 1:56.77 she notched almost 6 years in the past on the 2017 Lausanne Swim Cup in Switzerland.
Makino upgraded to gold within the girls’s 200m fly, posting a results of 2:05.21 to win by over 2 seconds. That sliced .15 off her earlier PB of two:05.36 additionally logged on the 2017 Lausanne Swim Cup.
Nao Horomura topped the lads’s version of the 200m fly, hitting 1:53.91 for the victory.
Katsumi Nakamura dove in for the lads’s 50m free, placing up a strong efficiency of 21.85 as the one man beneath 22 seconds.
29-year-old Nakamura stays Japan’s 2nd-best performer all-time within the dash, proudly owning a career-quickest mark of 21.16 from 2018. Solely nationwide file holder Kosuke Matsui has been swifter together with his NR of 20.95 from 2019.
The ladies’s 400m IM noticed 21-year-old Shiho Matsumoto produce a big-time private finest en path to grabbing the gold. Matsumoto touched in 4:30.09, crushing the sector by over 12 seconds.
Coming into this competitors, Matsumoto’s lifetime finest rested on the 4:35.56 put up on the 2019 JOC competitors. Which means the swimmer hacked over 5 seconds off that end result to now check-in as Seventh-best performer of all time on this girls’s 400m IM. She now ranks fifth on the earth on the season.
Matsumoto is a triple bronze medalist on the 2023 World College Video games, contributing to podium placements throughout the ladies’s 4x100m free, 4x200m free, and 4x100m medley relays in Chengdu, China.
Extra Notes
Ryo Saitou logged a time of 4:08.96 to take the lads’s 400m IM, decreasing his earlier PB by over 3 seconds within the course of.
Runa Imai topped the ladies’s 100m breast podium in a results of 1:06.01 to clear the sector by over 2 seconds. She additionally received the 50m free in 24.51 tonight.
The boys’s 100m breast noticed Ryuma Koizumi submit 58.65 as his first-ever outing beneath the 59-second barrier.
Matsumoto registered 58.70 to take the ladies’s 100m backstroke whereas Ryota Naito bought it performed for the lads in 51.40. Naito’s PB rests on the 51.18 he earned on the 2021 Japanese SC Championships to characterize the nation’s Ninth-fastest performer in historical past.
