Japan at the 2011 World Aquatics Championships

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The Japanese team will compete at the 2011 World Aquatics Championships in Shanghai, China.

Medalists[]

Medal	Name	Sport	Event	Date
Silver	Takeshi Matsuda	Swimming	Men's 200m Butterfly	27 July
Silver	Aya Terakawa	Swimming	Women's 50m Backstroke	28 July
Silver	Ryosuke Irie	Swimming	Men's 200m Backstroke	29 July
Silver	Kosuke Kitajima	Swimming	Men's 200m Breaststroke	29 July
Bronze	Ryosuke Irie	Swimming	Men's 100m Backstroke	26 July
Bronze	Yuya Horihata	Swimming	Men's 400m IM	31 July

Diving[]

There will be 8 divers (4 men & 4 females) that will compete at the 2011 World Aquatics Championships, including four-time Olympian Ken Terauchi (as of April 12, 2011).^[1]

Men

Athlete	Event	Preliminary		Semifinals		Final
Athlete	Event	Points	Rank	Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Ken Terauchi	Men's 3m Springboard	444.75	5 Q	426.70	14	Did not advance
Sho Sakai	Men's 3m Springboard	438.15	7 Q	430.85	13	Did not advance
Sho Sakai	Men's 10m Platform	DNS		Did not advance
Kazuki Murakami	Men's 10m Platform	448.25	9 Q	415.10	13	Did not advance
Sho Sakai	Men's 3m Synchro Springboard	371.55	10 Q			395.19	9
Kazuki Murakami	Men's 10m Synchro Platform	396.12	8 Q			380.52	9

Women

Athlete	Event	Preliminary		Semifinals		Final
Athlete	Event	Points	Rank	Points	Rank	Points	Rank
	Women's 1m Springboard	219.50	29			Did not advance
	Women's 3m Springboard	243.35	33	Did not advance
	Women's 1m Springboard	240.80	20			Did not advance
	Women's 3m Springboard	280.65	18 Q	294.60	14	Did not advance
Mai Nakagawa	Women's 10m Platform	304.00	11 Q	257.25	18	Did not advance
	Women's 10m Platform	261.95	23	Did not advance
Mai Nakagawa	Women's 3m Synchro Springboard	247.80	13			Did not advance

Open water swimming[]

Men^[2]

Athlete	Event	Final
Athlete	Event	Time	Position
Yasunari Hirai	Men's 5km	56:30.6	12
Yasunari Hirai	Men's 10km	1:58:19.2	36

Women^[3]

Athlete	Event	Final
Athlete	Event	Time	Position
Yumi Kida	Women's 5km	DSQ
Yumi Kida	Women's 10km	2:07:07.7	35
	Women's 5km	1:03:20.2	31
	Women's 10km	2:11:48.9	42

Swimming[]

There will be 26 swimmers (15 men & 11 females) that will compete at the 2011 World Aquatics Championships.^[1]

Men

Athlete	Event	Heats		Semifinals		Final
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Takuro Fujii	Men's 100m Freestyle	49.13	21	Did not advance
Takuro Fujii	Men's 100m Butterfly	51.82	2 Q	51.69	4 Q	51.75	5
Yuki Kobori	Men's 200m Freestyle	1:48.19	13 Q	1:48.65	16	Did not advance
Sho Uchida	Men's 200m Freestyle	1:48.64	19	Did not advance
Sho Uchida	Men's 400m Freestyle	349.70	17			Did not advance
	Men's 800m Freestyle	7:57.13	14			Did not advance
	Men's 1500m Freestyle	14:57.12	7 Q			15:20.67	8
Junya Koga	Men's 50m Backstroke	25.17	6 Q	25.14	9	Did not advance
Junya Koga	Men's 100m Backstroke	54.32	15 Q	54.16	14	Did not advance
Ryosuke Irie	Men's 50m Backstroke	DNS		Did not advance
	Men's 100m Backstroke	53.99	8 Q	53.05	2 Q	52.98
	Men's 200m Backstroke	1:57.58	6 Q	1:55.96	2 Q	1:54.11
Kazuki Watanabe	Men's 200m Backstroke	1:57.62	7 Q	1:57.97	7 Q	1:57.82	8
Ryo Tateishi	Men's 50m Breaststroke	28.01	17	Did not advance
Ryo Tateishi	Men's 100m Breaststroke	1:00.37	8 Q	1:00.36	9	Did not advance
Kosuke Kitajima	Men's 100m Breaststroke	59.96	3 Q	59.77	2 Q	1:00.03	4
Kosuke Kitajima	Men's 200m Breaststroke	2:11.17	6 Q	2:08.81	1 Q	2:08.63
Naoya Tomita	Men's 200m Breaststroke	2:12.73	15 Q	2:11.98	12	Did not advance
Takeshi Matsuda	Men's 200m Butterfly	1:55.98	5 Q	1:54.30	1 Q	1:54.01
	Men's 200m Butterfly	1:57.66	20	Did not advance
Yuya Horihata	Men's 200m IM	1:59.25	6 Q	1:59.47	8 Q	1:59.52	8
Yuya Horihata	Men's 400m IM	4:13.68	2 Q			4:11.98
Takuro Fujii Yoshihiro Okumura Takeshi Matsuda	Men's 4 × 100 m Freestyle Relay	3:16.63	10			Did not advance
Takeshi Matsuda Yuki Kobori Yoshihiro Okumura Sho Uchida*	Men's 4 × 200 m Freestyle Relay	7:10.46	2 Q			7:10.92	7
Ryosuke Irie Kosuke Kitajima Takuro Fujii Ryo Tateishi* Takeshi Matsuda*	Men's 4 × 100 m Medley Relay	3:34.82	4 Q			3:32.89	4

* raced in heats only

Women

Athlete	Event	Heats		Semifinals		Final
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Yayoi Matsumoto	Women's 50m Freestyle	25.34	16 Q	Withdrew		Did not advance
	Women's 100m Freestyle	56.30	35	Did not advance
Haruka Ueda	Women's 200m Freestyle	1:58.74	16 Q	1:58.28	14	Did not advance
Hanae Ito	Women's 200m Freestyle	1:58.74	16*	Did not advance
Aya Terakawa	Women's 50m Backstroke	28.34	4 Q	28.16	7 Q	27.93
	Women's 100m Backstroke	59.95	4 Q	59.81	8 Q	59.35	5
	Women's 200m Backstroke	DNS		Did not advance
Shiho Sakai	Women's 50m Backstroke	28.89	19	Did not advance
	Women's 100m Backstroke	1:00.34	7 Q	59.94	9	Did not advance
	Women's 200m Backstroke	2:09.25	8 Q	2:08.93	11	Did not advance
Satomi Suzuki	Women's 50m Breaststroke	DNS		Did not advance
	Women's 100m Breaststroke	1:07.39	4 Q	1:07.68	9	Did not advance
	Women's 200m Breaststroke	2:27.98	18	Did not advance
Rie Kaneto	Women's 100m Breaststroke	1:09.56	24	Did not advance
Rie Kaneto	Women's 200m Breaststroke	2:27.17	10 Q	2:25.41	4 Q	2:25.36	5
Yuka Kato	Women's 50m Butterfly	26.37	9 Q	26.07	5 Q
Yuka Kato	Women's 100m Butterfly	58.70	13 Q	58.71	14	Did not advance
Natsumi Hoshi	Women's 100m Butterfly	59.63	25	Did not advance
Natsumi Hoshi	Women's 200m Butterfly	2:07.34	1 Q	2:06.65	2 Q	2:05.91	4
Haruka Ueda Yayoi Matsumoto Hanae Ito	Women's 4 × 100 m Freestyle Relay	3:39.28	7 Q			3:39.55	7
Haruka Ueda Hanae Ito Yayoi Matsumoto Misaki Yamaguchi	Women's 4 × 200 m Freestyle Relay	7:57.82	9			Did not advance
Aya Terakawa Satomi Suzuki Yuka Kato Yayoi Matsumoto Haruka Ueda**	Women's 4 × 100 m Medley Relay	4:00.08	6 Q			3:57.84	5

* lost play-off race against Haruka Ueda
** raced in heats only

Synchronized swimming[]

Japan has qualified 11 athletes in synchronised swimming.^[4]

Women

Athlete	Event	Preliminary		Final
Athlete	Event	Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Yumi Adachi	Solo Technical Routine	91.900	5 Q	92.600	5
Yumi Adachi	Solo Free Routine	92.620	5 Q	92.810	5
Yukiko Inui Chisa Kobayashi	Duet Technical Routine	92.600	5 Q	92.800	5
Yukiko Inui Chisa Kobayashi	Duet Free Routine	92.720	5 Q	92.710	5
Yumi Adachi Aika Hakoyama Yukiko Inui Mayo Itoyama Chisa Kobayashi Mai Nakamura Mariko Sakai Kurumi Yoshida	Team Technical Routine	92.800	5 Q	93.100	5
Yumi Adachi Aika Hakoyama Yukiko Inui Chisa Kobayashi Risako Mitsui Mai Nakamura Mariko Sakai Kurumi Yoshida	Team Free Routine	92.540	5 Q	92.860	5

Reserves

Miho Arai

Water polo[]

Men[]

Team Roster ^[5]

Katsuyuki Tanamura
– Captain
Koji Takei
Shota Hazui
Mitsuaki Shiga
Akira Yanase
Yusuke Shimizu
Keigo Okawa

Group C[]

Team v t	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Croatia	3	3	0	43	16	+27	6
Canada	3	2	1	28	25	+3	4
Japan	3	1	2	25	40	–15	2
Brazil	3	0	3	25	40	–15	0

July 18, 2011 17:00	Report	Japan	5–11	Canada	Shanghai Oriental Sports Center, Shanghai Attendance: 700 Referees: Williams (NZL), Alexandrescu (ROU)
		Score by quarters: 1–3, 2–2, 0–3, 2–3
		five players 1	Goals	Graham 5

July 20, 2011 12:10	Report	Brazil	11–13	Japan	Shanghai Oriental Sports Center, Shanghai Attendance: 500 Referees: Brgulian (MNE), Ni (CHN)
		Score by quarters: 4–2, 2–4, 1–3, 4–4
		Silva, Franco 3	Goals	Shimizu 4

July 22, 2011 10:50	Report	Japan	7–18	Croatia	Shanghai Oriental Sports Center, Shanghai Attendance: 500 Referees: Ni (CHN), Balfanvayev (KAZ)
		Score by quarters: 1–6, 1–3, 2–4, 3–5
		three players 2	Goals	Joković 3

Playoff Round[]

July 24, 2011 21:00	Report	Japan	6–8	Germany	Shanghai Oriental Sports Center, Shanghai Attendance: 550 Referees: Peris (CRO), Cabral (BRA)
		Score by quarters: 3–3, 0–1, 2–3, 1–1
		Shimizu 4	Goals	Stamm 3

Classification 9–12[]

July 26, 2011 12:40	Report	Australia	15–9	Japan	Shanghai Oriental Sports Center, Shanghai Referees: Ciric (SRB), Ni (CHN)
		Score by quarters: 6–4, 1–1, 3–1, 5–3
		three players 3	Goals	3

Eleventh place game[]

July 28, 2011 09:30	Report	Romania	15–18	Japan	Shanghai Oriental Sports Center, Shanghai Attendance: 200 Referees: Reemnet (NED), Bock (GER)
		Score by quarters: 4–3, 3–5, 3–5, 5–5
		Kadar 4	Goals	Shiota 8

Medal table[]


Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
Totals (0 nations)		0	0	0	0

Medalists[]

References[]

^ Jump up to: ^a ^b "Japanese swimmers selected for the Worlds". Fédération Internationale de Natation (FINA). 2011-04-19. Archived from the original on 2012-04-02. Retrieved 2011-04-19.
^ Open Water Qualifiers – Men^{[permanent dead link]}
^ Open Water Qualifiers – Women^{[permanent dead link]}
^ Athletes Listed in Synchronized Swimming Archived 2011-07-20 at the Wayback Machine
^ Men's Water Polo Team

[japanteamapril-1] Jump up to: ^a ^b "Japanese swimmers selected for the Worlds". Fédération Internationale de Natation (FINA). 2011-04-19. Archived from the original on 2012-04-02. Retrieved 2011-04-19.

[2] Open Water Qualifiers – Men^{[permanent dead link]}

[3] Open Water Qualifiers – Women^{[permanent dead link]}

[4] Athletes Listed in Synchronized Swimming Archived 2011-07-20 at the Wayback Machine

[5] Men's Water Polo Team

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