57th TOKYO SWIMMING CENTER OUTSTANDING ATHLETES INVITATIONAL
- Friday, October 30th – Tuesday, November 3rd
- Tokyo Aquatics Centre
- LCM (50m)
- Day 1 Recap
- Results
Day 2 Highlights
It was a lighter schedule on day two of the 57th Tokyo Swimming Center Outstanding Athletes Invitational, with only the 200m IM, 100m back and 1500m freestyle events on the agenda.
So Ogata was the top men’s 200m IM performer, ripping a time of 1:56.91 to make his presence known among his peers.
The 23-year-old registered one of just two swims under the 2:00 threshold, with Ei Kamikawabata joining him under the barrier in 1:59.71. Yu Hirayama rounded out the podium in 2:00.08.
For Ogata, his outing this evening checked in as a new lifetime best, erasing his former PB of 1:57.06 put up in the semi-finals of the race at the 2023 World Championships. He remains the 6th-fastest Japanese men’s 200m IM performer of all time and ranks 3rd in the world at the moment.
| 2 | Yumeki KOJIMA |
JPN | WJR 1:55.36 | 09/20 |
| 3 | Shun WANG |
CHN | 1:57.14 | 09/20 |
| 4 | Yuta Watanabe |
JPN | 1:57.94 | 09/03 |
| 5 | Kosuke Makino |
JPN | 1:58.34 | 09/03 |
Olympic medalist and Asian Games champion Tomoyuki Matsushita bypassed the 2IM in favor of the men’s 100m back this evening, with the 21-year-old finding success in a time of 53.43.
Opening in 25.93 and closing in 27.50, Matsushita earned a new lifetime best en route to taking the gold medal.
Hidekazu Takehara was next to the wall over a second behind in 54.78, with Shigeki Soeda also landing on the podium in 55.23, good enough for bronze.
As for Matsushita, the ace now checks in as Japan’s 4th-best performer in history.
Top 5 Japanese Men’s LCM 100 Backstroke Performers All-Time
- Ryosuke Irie – 52.24, 2009
- Junya Koga – 52.26, 2009
- Kosuke Hagino – 52.78, 2014
- Tomoyuki Matsushita – 53.43, 2026
- Junya Hasegawa – 53.49, 2016
Kaito Tabuchi led a duo of 1500m freestyle swimmers who cleared the 15:00 benchmark tonight.
Tabuchi, the reigning Asian Games silver medalist in this event, put up 14:58.47 for the top spot, with Nishikawa Gasaki immediately behind in 14:58.54.
Tabuchi’s lifetime best remains at the 14:45.57 notched just this past March at the Japan swim. His time in Tokyo at the Asian Games fell just short of that at 14:45.99 to finish as the runner-up behind Chinese dynamo Zhang Zhanshuo.
Gasaki’s performance here represents a new PB, rendering him Japan’s 7th-fastest man ever.
