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Re: Asian Swimming News Updates ( Articles and Interviews from China, Japan, South Korea etc)
Japan: Olympic champion Kosuke Kitajima was hospitalised in early July because of a high fever; his body temperature shot up to 39 degree Celsius and he was suffering from a pain in the throat. After some proper rest in the hospital, Kitajima has recovered now but his training plans were also disrupted. Due to possible health risks from altitude training on his less than perfect physical condition, Kitajima has also opted to skip the altitude training camp in U.S. Arizona and remain in Japan to prepare for the Pan Pacs in August.
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Re: Asian Swimming News Updates ( Articles and Interviews from China, Japan, South Korea etc)
China: Separate groups of the Chinese national swim team had returned from various destinations (Brisbane Australia, Los Angeles USA, Kunming and Duoba highlands ) at the beginning of this month. Head coach Zhang Yadong, who also just returned from L.A., held a meeting on 6th August to summarise their training experiences at different camps. For the two teams who went abroad to USA and Australia, the most striking difference between the camps they visited and their own training camps back in China was the facilities. In China, the swimmers rarely swim outdoors and they enjoy a great deal of material comfort. Now that they've seen what swimmers in other countries have to endure, they have really come to cherish the comforts of their own training grounds. They however also realised how intensive and well-structured are the training plans of swimmers in other countries, and how much their own training methods are still lagging far behind in this area.
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Re: Asian Swimming News Updates ( Articles and Interviews from China, Japan, South Korea etc)
Pan Pacs: Five Asian records were set at the 2006 Pan Pacific Championships in Victoria, Canada. South Korea's rising star Park Tae Hwan accounted for two records in the men's 200m freestyle and 400m freestyle events whilst the other three records came from Ken Takakuwa (JPN) in the men's 200m IM, men's 4x100m freestyle relay from Japan and Yuko Nakanishi in the women's 200m butterfly. Zhang Lin (CHN) set two new Chinese national records and also went under the old Asian marks in the 200m and 400m freestyle but had to concede the continental records to Park. Reiko Nakamura (JPN) bettered the Japanese record in the women's 200m backstroke which was also the fastest time in the world this year. The Japanese women set a new Japanese record in the women's 4x100m medley relay whilst Takeshi Matsuda also set a new national record in the men's 1500m freestyle.
China: Luo Xuejuan will join other swimmers such as Wu Peng, Yang Yu to compete for a berth on China's Asian Games team in the selection meet from September 1st to 6th. Although Luo is the reigning Olympic champion, she's not given any special preference and will have to race against young talents such as World junior champion Wang Qun and Asian champion Ji Liping in her pet event -- 100m breaststroke.
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Re: Asian Swimming News Updates ( Articles and Interviews from China, Japan, South Korea etc)
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China's national team coaches have sliced the number of short-listed swimmers from 52 to 39 for the 2006 Asian Games. Although the list isn't finalised yet, Olympic champion Luo Xuejuan is unlikely to join the team, according to the CSA. Since their Asian competitors in women's 50m and 100m breaststroke aren't particularly strong, the coaches have decided to field up-and-coming talent such as Wang Qun and Ji Liping. This will also allow Luo Xuejuan to concentrate on major meets, the 2007 Melbourne World Championships and the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
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Japan has announced their 2007 World Championship team list and Olympic champion Kosuke Kitajima has made it to Melbourne.
Some swimming results from Japan:
Asian record holder Takashi Nakano sliced 0.63 seconds off his continental mark in the men's 200m backstroke final at an inter-school meet in Japan; his new record -- 1:57.17 (27.95,57.86,1:28.33). 200m fly World silver medalist Takeshi Matsuda also raced to a new 200m freestyle national record of 1:48.07 in a relay lead-off. He had erased the old Japanese record with a 1:48.81 swim in the men's 200m freestyle final the day before.
Nanaka Tamura dropped more than three seconds for a strong personal best of 2:25.37(33.61,1:10.50,1:47.70) in the women's 200m breaststroke. Megumi Taneda also clocked a PB of 2:26.45. Tamura and Yoshimi Miwa bettered the meet record in the women's 100m breaststroke with their 1:08.71 and 1:08.86.
Tomomi Morita and Masafumi Yamaguchi swam 54.68 (54.62 in relay lead-off) and 54.76 (54.93 in relay lead-off) in the men's 100m backstroke final whilst Takashi Nakano, who set a new 200m Asian record earlier, swam 54.66 in a relay lead-off. Pan Pacs champion Hanae Ito again went under 1:01 with a meet record of 1:00.87 (29.77,31.10) in the women's 100m backstroke final. She also set a meet record in the 200m backstroke -- 2:10.02 (1:03.72). Hidemasa Sano, who was dwarfed by team-mate Ken Takakuwa lately, showed he's back on track with a new meet record (4:16.72) in the 400m IM. Takakuwa got his own meet record (2:00.98) in the 200m IM.
In the men's 100m fly final, Takuma Kato joined the ranks of Takashi Yamamoto, Ryo Takayasu in the 52-sec club with his 52.88 swim. Yuka Kato took the women's title in meet record time (59.67 secs). Japan's 50m sprint national champion Makoto Ito dipped below 23 seconds with his 22.96 in the men's 50m freestyle final.
High School Meets:
17 year-old Kazuki Ohbayashi continued his climb to the top with a new high school record of 24.55 secs in the men's 50m butterfly and a meet record of 25.87 secs in the men's 50m backstroke. Another rising star Yoshinori Muramatsu was second in the 50m fly (24.79) but had defeated Ohbayashi in the 100m fly ten days earlier at another meet, with his own high school record of 53.80; Ohbayashi swam 54.36 in that final and also set a high school record of 23.06 in the 50m freestyle at the same meet.
Meanwhile another backstroke talent has emerged in the form of Takayuki Kuranishi who clocked a world-class 54.77 to win the high school title. The depth in the men's 100m backstroke was simply amazing -- other than the 54-sec swim by the champion, eleven swimmers went under 56 secs while another eleven swam below 57 secs and it was only their high school championship. Tomoyo Fukuda swam some good times in the girl's section -- a 1:02.6 in the 100m back and 2:12.4 in the 200m back. 16 year-old Shiho Sakai took the title at another high school meet (August 30th) with a meet record of 1:01.82, improving from her 1:04.18 at the April World Championship trials.
One of the brightest sparks at these high school meets was 15 year-old Natsuki Akiyama who reigned in the women's 200m butterfly event with a strong 2:09.87. Another 16 year-old high school champion Natsumi Hoshi leapt from 2:16 at the April trials to 2:11.02 at the August 20th meet in the women's 200m butterfly.
Two teenagers Rie Kaneto and Yoshimi Miwa demonstrated Japan's strength in the women's 200m breaststroke (an event which they took Olympic gold in 1992) with their 2:27.64 and 2:27.79 at the high school championships.
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Re: Asian Swimming News Updates ( Articles and Interviews from China, Japan, South Korea etc)
Awesome, Japanese. Their depth in men's 100m back is awesome. 11 other swimmers swam below 56s! Cannot believe it. In China, only Ouyang can dip below 55s and 1 or 2 more swimmers can break 56s occasionally. Their 200m fly is also great. Top 8 swimmers in national champ are all sub 2:00 performers. The only problem for them is how to sharpen their swimmers to reach to the top like Michael Phelps and Arron Perisol.
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Re: Asian Swimming News Updates ( Articles and Interviews from China, Japan, South Korea etc)
Japan: A new star is rising in Japan's breaststroke events -- Ryo Tateishi lowered Olympic champion Kosuke Kitajima's six year-old high school record of 2:13.47 by 1.14 seconds at a minor meet. Kitajima set the record back in 2000 and four years later, he was crowned Olympic champion in both men's breaststroke events. 15 year-old Natsuki Akiyama, who clocked 2:09.87 in the women's 200m fly recently, went under 1:00 for the first time in the 100m fly event in 59.99s.
China: The national swim team will separate into two teams again, with two months remaining before the Asian Games. One group will go for altitude training whilst the other group will travel to Guangdong for centralised training.
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China's first Open Water national team will participate in the men's and women's 10k events at the Melbourne World Championships next year. FINA announced last October that 2008 Beijing Olympics will include Open Water 10k events as official Olympic events.
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China's national team has a new blog site at Sohu Sports.
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China: Luo Xuejuan's current coach Zhu Zhigen, whose pupils include 800m freestyle (25m) triple World Champion Chen Hua before she retired, was optimistic regarding Luo's return. "Luo Xuejuan has made some marked improvement in her training after a change in mindset." Zhu also mentioned that Luo will compete at the Nationals next year and may even qualify for the Melbourne World Championship team.
Meanwhile, Zhou Yafei wrote in her blog about her tough altitude training at Duo Ba Highlands. The training camp at Duo Ba recently added a new swimming pool to assist one group of China's National Team in their preparations for Asian Games. Another group of Chinese swimmers travelled to Guangzhou for centralised training because of a similar climate to Doha's.
Japan: Kosuke Kitajima has included more freestyle training and less breaststroke in view of his recurring knee injuries. His training now comprises 60% freestyle, 30% IM and only 10% breaststroke. Physically, he's already back to his best shape since the 2004 Athens Olympics where he won two gold medals.
Kitajima is confident he will swim well at the upcoming Asian Games. He's targetting his Asian records -- 59.53 in the 100m breaststroke (2005) and 2:09.42 in the 200m (2003). Kitajima's coach told the press Japan's aim is to win more than 11 gold medals at the Games, citing men's breaststroke, men's butterfly, women's backstroke and women's 200m butterfly as the events they're most likely to win gold.
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China: National team coaches confirmed the intensive altitude training camp at Duo Ba has just completed and all thirty-one swimmers are starting their taper for the Asian Games next month.
Coach Yao Ying revealed that it's the first altitude camp for most of their charges and even for the coaches, they're still experimenting with their altitude training methods. It was however a fruitful trip for them -- the results showed in the final stages of their training. "We can see the benefits of this 3-week altitude training. The swimmers responded well and their training times have all improved considerably. We were able to maximise the effects of each session according to plan and we'll continue to explore this aspect of training in the future."
This group of China's national team will leave Duo Ba tomorrow, proceed to Guangzhou to join the other group and go through some adjustment training before flying to Doha.
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Luo Xuejuan is currently training with her provincial team in Zhejiang. Her coach Zhu Zhigen said, "she is the most well-known member on their team and is also the most diligent." When her junior team mates have completed their daily training, Luo Xuejuan still trudged on. She might have been excluded from the Doha squad, but an undeterred Luo is already looking forward to Beijing.
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