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SWIMMING 3

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MORE SPORTS / Swimming
Jul 20, 2023
Yukiko Inui repeats two-gold performance at this year's world championships
Host Japan has won four artistic swimming golds so far in Fukuoka.
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MORE SPORTS / Swimming
Jul 18, 2023
Japan claims acrobatic routine bronze at worlds
Japan was 17.4166 points behind winner China and picked up its fourth artistic swimming medal of this meet, following three gold medals.
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MORE SPORTS / Swimming
Jul 15, 2023
Men make team artistic swimming debut at world championships in Fukuoka
In the preliminary round of the acrobatic routine, Yotaro Sato and seven women competed for host Japan at Marine Messe Fukuoka, as they placed fourth to qualify for Monday's final.
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Jun 9, 2023
Rikako Ikee targets strong performance at world championships
Rikako Ikee is determined to muscle up and impress at the world championships in July in Fukuoka as she pursues a path to the 2024 Paris Olympics.
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Apr 9, 2023
Ukraine swimmers, vowing boycott, urge IOC to back 'peace'
Kyiv says Russian forces have damaged at least 343 sporting facilities during the year-long war in Ukraine.
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OLYMPICS
Apr 2, 2023
Paris to make Olympic history with men's artistic swimming debut
Only women have competed since the sport, formerly known as synchronized swimming, was added to the Olympic program in 1984 in Los Angeles.
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Dec 17, 2022
Daiya Seto makes history as three more records fall at short-course worlds
Daiya Seto became the first swimmer ever to claim six straight world titles in the same event at a short-course championships.
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Aug 14, 2022
Male artistic swimmers finally get the pool to themselves
Giorgio Minisini's historic gold medal at the European championships came seven years after the discipline first allowed men to compete, only if accompanied by a female partner.
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CULTURE / Books
Jul 17, 2022
‘Fish Swimming in Dappled Sunlight’: Riku Onda's layered novel deftly juggles genres
Riku Onda's novel shifts from murder mystery to psychological thriller to philosophical dialogue, examining ideas of attraction, truth and memory.
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Jun 23, 2022
Yukiko Inui captures second gold at swimming world championships
Inui is the first artistic swimmer from Japan to win multiple gold medals at a single world championships.
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Jun 21, 2022
Japan wins team free combination silver at worlds
Competing in their first world championships, the pair scored 86.5939 points and bettered Japan's previous best finish in the category, a bronze in 2019.
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Jun 19, 2022
Artistic swimmer Yukiko Inui wins historic first gold for Japan at worlds
The 31-year-old scored 92.8662 points to capture the women's solo technical artistic swimming final on the first day of action at the world championships in Budapest.
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May 22, 2022
Ex-Olympian Mikako Kotani fights objectification of female athletes
The retired artistic swimmer has advocated strongly for laws prohibiting women in sports from being photographed in a sexualized manner during competition.
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Feb 22, 2022
Tracy Stockwell committed to changing Australian swim team culture
The three-time Olympic gold medalist has been tasked with implementing the recommendations of a panel that was established to address accusations of toxicity and misogyny.
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PARALYMPICS / Summer Paralympics
Sep 3, 2021
Japan's Keiichi Kimura and Uchu Tomita grab top two podium spots in S11 100-meter butterfly
Kimura broke through for his long-awaited maiden Paralympic gold medal Friday at the Tokyo Games.
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PARALYMPICS / Summer Paralympics
Aug 31, 2021
Japan swimming veteran Mayumi Narita gets fairytale ending
At 51, the 15-time gold medalist says that her Paralympic journey 'went by like a flash.'
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PARALYMPICS / Summer Paralympics
Aug 29, 2021
Japan's Naohide Yamaguchi wins gold in SB14 100-meter breaststroke
Yamaguchi won gold in the men's SB14 100-meter breaststroke on Sunday to give the host nation a second Paralympic title in the pool.
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PARALYMPICS / Summer Paralympics
Aug 27, 2021
Takayuki Suzuki remains focused on more medals after winning Japan's first gold
Swimmer Takayuki Suzuki remains on track to meet his goal of winning a medal in every event in which he competes in at the Tokyo Paralympics after grabbing Japan's first gold Thursday.
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PARALYMPICS / Summer Paralympics
Aug 26, 2021
Freedom to swim: Afghan refugee competes in Tokyo Paralympics
Eight years after Abbas Karimi escaped Afghanistan, he led the parade of nations into the stadium at the Paralympics' opening ceremony on Tuesday night.
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PARALYMPICS / Summer Paralympics
Aug 26, 2021
Swimmer Takayuki Suzuki wins Japan's first gold of the Tokyo Paralympics
Suzuki finished in 1 minute, 21.58 seconds, passing Italy's Luigi Beggiato, who took silver, on the second length of the pool to win by 1.63 seconds.

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