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	<title>The Japan Times &#187; Swimming</title>
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		<title>Seto third in 200 IM at World Cup</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Aug 2013 13:41:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[World individual medley champion Daiya Seto came in third in the 200-meter IM but failed to qualify for the final in the 100 butterfly at the World Cup on Sunday. Seto, only the third Japanese to have won a world title, recorded a time of 1 minute, 52.62 seconds for the bronze but bowed out [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Seto wins 400 IM at World Cup meet in Berlin</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Aug 2013 14:37:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Newly crowned world champion Daiya Seto won the men&#8217;s 400-meter individual medley Saturday at a short course World Cup meet in Berlin. Seto, who won the 400 IM at last week&#8217;s world championships, captured the title in a Japanese short-course record of 3 minutes, 58.84 seconds. The 19-year-old Seto was also third in the 200 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Seto places fourth in 200 IM at World Cup meet</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Aug 2013 13:24:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Kosuke Kitajima]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Daiya Seto missed out on a golden double as he finished fourth in the men&#8217;s 200-meter individual medley on the final day of a short-course World Cup swim meet on Thursday. The 19-year-old Seto, who captured Japan&#8217;s only gold medal of the just-concluded world championships in the men&#8217;s 400-meter IM and won the same event [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hagino earns 200 IM silver; Terakawa nabs backstroke bronze</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Aug 2013 14:00:28 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Aya Terakawa]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kosuke Hagino won a second silver medal at the FINA World Swimming Championships on Thursday, becoming the first Japanese to make the podium in the men&#8217;s 200-meter individual medley in major international competition, including the Olympic Games. The 18-year-old Hagino, who snared Japan&#8217;s first medal of the championships on Sunday with silver in the men&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Swimmers Hagino, Yamaguchi draw positives from below-par performances</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 May 2013 15:04:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Even in a post-Olympic year, the spotlight is still there on the swimming pool. Teenage phenoms Kosuke Hagino and Akihiro Yamaguchi are Japan&#8217;s latest stars in swimming, and are expected to lead &#8220;Tobiuo Japan&#8221; for years to come. Both received a lot of attention last year. Hagino won the bronze medal in the men&#8217;s 400-meter [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kitajima claims victory in 100-meter breaststroke at Japan Open</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2013 15:03:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Former two-time double gold medal Olympic champion Kosuke Kitajima powered to victory in the men&#8217;s 100-meter breaststroke on the first day of action Friday at the Japan Open. Kitajima, who captured a pair of golds at the 2004 Athens Olympics and 2008 Beijing Games, touched the wall in 1 minute, 0.44 seconds at Sagamihara Green [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Teenage swimmer Hagino named to world championships squad for first time</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Apr 2013 15:28:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Record-breaking swimmer Kosuke Hagino was among 31 named to the Japan national team for this summer&#8217;s world championships in Barcelona on Monday. The 18-year-old Hagino, who held off Michael Phelps for a bronze in the 400-meter individual medley at last year&#8217;s London Olympics, won an unprecedented five titles at last week&#8217;s national championships. Hagino made [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Irie denies Hagino&#8217;s bid for six titles in Japan nationals</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Apr 2013 18:50:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[London Olympic silver medalist Ryosuke Irie stops Kosuke Hagino's bid of winning six titles in the men's 200-meter breaststroke in Japan's national swimming championships on Sunday.]]></description>
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		<title>Swimmer Hagino captures record fifth title at nationals</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Apr 2013 15:38:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kosuke Hagino made Japanese swimming history on Saturday when he became the first swimmer to win five titles at the national championships. Hagino powered to victory in the 200-meter individual medley in a Japanese record time of 1 minute, 55.74 seconds on the third day of action at Daiei Probis Phoenix Pool, and also won [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hagino outduels Irie for 100-meter backstroke national title</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Apr 2013 15:38:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kosuke Hagino defeated London Olympic bronze medalist Ryosuke Irie in the men&#8217;s 100 meters backstroke on Friday to capture his third title at the national swimming championships, a qualifier for this summer&#8217;s world championships in Barcelona. The 18-year-old Hagino surpassed the qualifying standard with a time of 53.10 seconds to win his first 100 back [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kitajima to swim for at least one more season</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Feb 2013 14:47:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Former two-time double Olympic breaststroke champion Kosuke Kitajima will not retire any time soon, saying Monday that he will continue to compete for at least another season. &#8220;I want to enjoy swimming this year,&#8221; said the 30-year-old Kitajima, who did not win an individual medal at the London Olympics last year. &#8220;I want to keep [...]]]></description>
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		<title>McCardel to attempt record swim</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Dec 2012 00:00:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[An Australian open-water distance swimmer who has made multiple crossings of the English Channel on Sunday announced an ambitious bid to swim solo from Cuba to the United States without a shark cage. Chloe McCardel, 27, has twice won the Channel Swimming Association&#8217;s Sotiraki Cup for the fastest swim by a woman across the strait [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Seto grabs 200 IM silver at worlds</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Dec 2012 00:00:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Daiya Seto placed second in the men&#8217;s 200-meter individual medley Friday to capture his second medal at the short-course FINA Swimming World Championships. The 18-year-old Seto was a distant second to American Ryan Lochte, who broke his own world record with a lung-busting time of 1 minute, 49.63 seconds over the eight laps. Seto was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Seto wins gold at short-course worlds</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Dec 2012 00:00:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Japanese teen Daiya Seto rewrote his own record Thursday en route to winning the men&#8217;s 400-meter individual medley on the second day of the short-course FINA World Swimming Championships. Eighteen-year-old Seto shaved 0.87 second off his previous mark to take the gold medal in 3 minutes, 59.15 seconds in the final, touching the wall ahead [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Olympic star Ye triumphs in 200 IM</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Nov 2012 00:02:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ye Shiwen, China&#8217;s teenage swimming sensation, stormed to victory in the 200-meter individual medley despite claiming to be 85 percent fit at Beijing&#8217;s short-course World Cup meet on Friday. The 16-year-old who stunned the sporting world with two gold medals in the women&#8217;s 200 and 400 individual medley at the London Olympics appears to be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Swimmer Seto sets new record</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Oct 2012 00:00:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Teenager Daiya Seto set a new World Cup record in the 400-meter Individual Medley final on Saturday on the opening day of Berlin&#8217;s short-course meet. The 18-year-old Japanese record-holder notched his fifth consecutive victory in the event, coming home in 4 minutes, 00.12 seconds to beat Hungary&#8217;s Laszlo Cseh, who claimed 200-meter IM Olympic bronze [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Greek swimmer wins compensation</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Oct 2012 00:01:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Greek Swimming Federation has been ordered to pay €277,000 ($360,986) to 100-meter freestyle swimmer Tonia Machaira for wrongfully excluding her from the 2004 Athens Olympics on the grounds she had failed a drug test. Machaira filed a suit for €1 million eight years ago after she was banned from participating in her home Olympics [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Teen breaks 200 breast world record</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Sep 2012 00:01:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Schoolboy Akihiro Yamaguchi set a new world record in winning the men&#8217;s 200-meter breaststroke final on Saturday at the National Sports Festival. Yamaguchi, 18, powered home in 2 minutes, 7.01 seconds at Nagaragawa Swimming Plaza, slicing 0.27 off the previous world mark set by Hungary&#8217;s Daniel Gyurta at the London Olympics. The third-year high school [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Terakawa into backstroke semis</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Apr 2012 00:01:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[World silver medalist Aya Terakawa strolled through the preliminaries of the women&#8217;s 100-meter backstroke, taking a time of 1 minute, .28 seconds into the semifinals of the national championships Wednesday. Terakawa, who medaled for her first time at last year&#8217;s world championships in Shanghai and is poised to win her first Olympic medal this summer [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kitajima completes double in U.S.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Mar 2012 00:04:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kosuke Kitajima completed a double with a victory in the men&#8217;s 200-meter breaststroke in a U.S. swimming Grand Prix series meet Saturday. The two-time double Olympic champion touched the wall in 2 minutes, 10.35 seconds, adding to his win in the 100 the previous day in the meet, which is part of his warmup for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kitajima triumphs in tuneup race</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Mar 2012 00:04:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Tateishi tells Kitajima to bring it on for Olympic qualifying</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2012 00:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ryo Tateishi laid down the gauntlet to two-time double Olympic champion Kosuke Kitajima after obliterating the field in the men&#8217;s 200-meter breaststroke at the national short-course championships on Sunday. Tateishi, who broke Kitajima&#8217;s record in the 100 breaststroke a day earlier, won in 2 minutes, 3.82 seconds, more than 2.5 seconds faster than runner-up Yukihiro [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hagiwara triumphs in 50m freestyle</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Feb 2012 00:00:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Comeback kid Tomoko Hagiwara continued her resurgence in the pool as the Sydney Olympian won the women&#8217;s 50-meter freestyle in a Japan record at the national short-course championships Saturday. Two months ahead of the Japanese qualifiers for London, Hagiwara, who turns 32 in April, broke the old mark by 0.05 during the preliminaries, touching the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ueda sets national swimming record</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 00:01:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Swimmer Haruka Ueda set a new national record in the women&#8217;s 100-meter freestyle at the Tokyo championships Sunday. Ueda touched the wall at Tokyo Tatsumi International Swimming Center in 54.33 seconds. She bettered the mark of Misaki Yamaguchi, who timed 54.43 in one of the now-banned ultrafast swimsuits in 2009. &#8220;It&#8217;s a confidence boost to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kitajima claims first victory of year</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 00:03:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two-time double Olympic breaststroke champion Kosuke Kitajima won his first race of 2012 in taking the 200 meters at a time-trials meet in Fullerton, California, on Sunday. Kitajima topped the heats before clocking a mediocre time of 1 minute, 58.80 seconds in the 25-yard short-course pool. &#8220;I didn&#8217;t look at it as a race. It [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hansen outraces Kitajima again</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Dec 2011 00:00:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Tomita wins gold in breaststroke</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Naoya Tomita won the men&#8217;s 100-meter breaststroke in the third leg of the short-course World Cup series in Moscow on Wednesday. Tomita came home in 58.81 seconds, while Russia&#8217; Sergey Geybel touched second in 59.13 and Germany&#8217;s Marco Koch placed third in 59.29. Other winners for Japan included Izumi Kato, who won the women&#8217;s 400-meter [...]]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kosuke Kitajima and four other Japanese medalists at the just-concluded world swimming championships in Shanghai returned home on Monday pledging to step up their efforts toward next year&#8217;s London Olympics. &#8220;Overall, it was a disappointing world championships for me, but once again I was able to feel the excitement of competing with the world&#8217;s top [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Horihata takes bronze in 400-meter individual medley</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yuya Horihata claimed the bronze medal in the men&#8217;s 400-meter individual medley in a national-record time on the final day of the world swimming championships in Shanghai on Sunday. Horihata, who had his 21st birthday the previous day, clocked 4 minutes, 11.98 seconds, while Ryan Lochte grabbed his fifth gold medal of the championships, leading [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Aggressive Kitajima falls short in bid for 200m gold</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Jul 2011 00:01:09 +0000</pubDate>
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