Akihiro Yamaguchi

Akihiro Yamaguchi
Personal information
Full name	Akihiro Yamaguchi
Nationality	Japan
Born	September 11, 1994 (age 27); Kagoshima Prefecture
Height	175 cm (5 ft 9 in)
Weight	67 kg (148 lb)
Sport
Sport	Swimming
Strokes	Breaststroke
Club	DC Shibushi
show Medal record
Men's swimming
Representing Japan
World Junior Championships

Akihiro Yamaguchi (山口観弘, Yamaguchi Akihiro, born September 11, 1994) is a Japanese swimmer and former world record holder who specializes in the breaststroke.

At the 2011 World Junior Swimming Championships in Lima, Yamaguchi won a total of four medals: one gold and three silvers. His gold came in the 200-meter breaststroke with a time of 2:11.70.

On September 15, 2012, at the National Sports Festival of Japan, he set a new world record in the 200-meter breaststroke (long course) with a time of 2:07.01, bettering the previous record of 2:07.28.^[1]

Personal bests[]

Long course
Event	Time	Meet	Date	Note(s)
50 m breaststroke	27.69	JOC Junior Olympic Cup (2012 Summer)	August 30, 2012
100 m breaststroke	59.56	Japan Inter-High School Championships	August 20, 2012
200 m breaststroke	2:07.01	National Sports Festival of Japan	September 15, 2012

References[]

^ Agence France-Presse (September 15, 2012). "Schoolboy Akihiro Yamaguchi sets 200m breaststroke world record". NDTV. Archived from the original on 2012-09-18. Retrieved September 15, 2012.

External links[]

Akihiro Yamaguchi at FINA
Akihiro Yamaguchi at SwimRankings.net
Akihiro Yamaguchi at The-Sports.org
Akihiro Yamaguchi on Twitter (in Japanese)

Records
Preceded by Dániel Gyurta	Men's 200 metre breaststroke world record holder (long course) September 15, 2012 – January 29, 2017	Succeeded by Ippei Watanabe

[1] Agence France-Presse (September 15, 2012). "Schoolboy Akihiro Yamaguchi sets 200m breaststroke world record". NDTV. Archived from the original on 2012-09-18. Retrieved September 15, 2012.

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