Ippei Watanabe (swimmer)
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Nationality | Japanese | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Tsukumi, Ōita, Japan | 18 March 1997||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.93 m (6 ft 4 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 76 kg (168 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Swimming | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Strokes | Breaststroke | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Ippei Watanabe (渡辺 一平, Watanabe Ippei, born 18 March 1997) is a Japanese swimmer and former world record holder in the 200 metre breaststroke.
Career
He competed in the men's 100 metre breaststroke event at the 2016 Summer Olympics.[1]
On 9 August 2016, Watanabe broke the Olympic record for the men's 200 metre breaststroke event at the 2016 Summer Olympics during the semi-final. In the final, he finished 6th.
At the Kosuke Kitajima Cup in Tokyo he broke the long course 200 metre breaststroke world record in a time of 2:06.67. He is also the first swimmer ever to go under 2:07.[2]
References
- ^ "Ippei Watanabe". Rio 2016. Archived from the original on 6 August 2016. Retrieved 7 August 2016.
- ^ Race, Loretta. "Japan's Ippei Watanabe Rocks New 200 Breast World Record In Sub-2:07". Swim Swam. Retrieved 29 January 2017.
External links
- Ippei Watanabe at World Aquatics
- Ippei Watanabe at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)
Categories:
- 1997 births
- Living people
- Japanese male swimmers
- Olympic swimmers of Japan
- Swimmers at the 2016 Summer Olympics
- Swimmers at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics
- World record holders in swimming
- World Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming
- Asian Games medalists in swimming
- Swimmers at the 2018 Asian Games
- Medalists at the 2018 Asian Games
- Asian Games silver medalists for Japan
- Youth Olympic gold medalists for Japan
- Male breaststroke swimmers
- Japanese swimming biography stubs