A year ago, he was just another of Japan's swimming prospects for the 2004 Athens Olympic Games. But now, Kosuke Kitajima is a double world record holder and an Olympic gold medal contender.
Kosuke Kitajima shows off his gold medals won at the recent World Swimming
Championships during a press conference in Tokyo.
Kitajima, who last month won two gold medals and set world records in the men's 100-meter and 200-meter breaststroke events at the World Swimming Championships in Barcelona, Spain, attended a luncheon at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan (FCCJ) in Tokyo on Thursday to answer questions from domestic and foreign media.