Japan at the 2023 World Aquatics Championships

Japan at the
2023 World Aquatics Championships
Japan at the; 2023 World Aquatics Championships
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FINA code	JPN
National federation	Japan Swimming Federation
Website	swim.or.jp (in Japanese)
in Fukuoka, Japan
Competitors	102 in 6 sports
Medals; Ranked 4th	Gold 4 Silver 1 Bronze 5 Total 10
World Aquatics Championships appearances
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Japan competed at the 2023 World Aquatics Championships in Fukuoka, Japan from 14 to 30 July.^[1]

Medalists

Medal	Name	Sport	Event	Date
Gold	Yukiko Inui	Artistic swimming	Women's solo technical routine	July 15
Gold	Tomoka Sato Yotaro Sato	Artistic swimming	Mixed duet technical routine	July 16
Gold	Moe Higa Mashiro Yasunaga	Artistic swimming	Women's duet technical routine	July 16
Gold	Yukiko Inui	Artistic swimming	Women's solo free routine	July 19
Silver	Moe Higa Moeka Kijima Uta Kobayashi Ayano Shimada Ami Wada Akane Yanagisawa Mashiro Yasunaga Megumu Yoshida	Artistic swimming	Team free routine	July 21
Bronze	Hiroki Ito Minami Itahashi	Diving	Mixed synchronized 10 metre platform	July 15
Bronze	Moka Fujii Hikari Suzuki Yotaro Sato Akane Yanagisawa Ikoi Hirota Megumu Yoshida Tomoka Sato Moeka Kijima	Artistic swimming	Team acrobatic routine	July 17
Bronze	Moe Higa Mashiro Yasunaga	Artistic swimming	Women's duet free routine	July 20
Bronze	Daiya Seto	Swimming	Men's 400 m individual medley	July 23
Bronze	Tomoru Honda	Swimming	Men's 200 m butterfly	July 26

Medals by sport
Sport				Total
Artistic swimming	4	1	2	7
Diving	0	0	1	1
Swimming	0	0	2	2

Athletes by discipline

The following is the list of number of competitors participating at the Championships per discipline.

Sport	Men	Women	Total
Artistic swimming	1	13	14
Diving	5	4	9
High diving	1	0	1
Open water swimming	4	4	8
Swimming	20	20	40
Water polo	15	15	30
Total	46	56	102

Artistic swimming

Men

Athlete	Event	Preliminaries		Final
Athlete	Event	Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Yotaro Sato	Solo free routine	167.7478	5 Q	167.9709	4

Women

Athlete	Event	Preliminaries		Final
Athlete	Event	Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Yukiko Inui	Solo technical routine	273.2700	1 Q	276.5717
Yukiko Inui	Solo free routine	253.1853	1 Q	254.6062
Moe Higa Mashiro Yasunaga	Duet technical routine	215.2700	12 Q	273.9500
Moe Higa Mashiro Yasunaga	Duet free routine	178.1583	11 Q	249.5167

Mixed

Athlete	Event	Preliminaries		Final
Athlete	Event	Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Tomoka Sato Yotaro Sato	Duet technical routine	227.7200	3 Q	255.5066
Tomoka Sato Yotaro Sato	Duet free routine	Did not start
Moka Fujii Ikoi Hirota Moeka Kijima Tomoka Sato Yotaro Sato Hikari Suzuki Akane Yanagisawa Megumu Yoshida	Team acrobatic routine	224.5167	4 Q	220.5867
Moe Higa Moeka Kijima Tomoka Sato Ayano Shimada Ami Wada Akane Yanagisawa Mashiro Yasunaga Megumu Yoshida	Team technical routine	235.2972	7 Q	260.1055	4
Moe Higa Moeka Kijima Uta Kobayashi Ayano Shimada Ami Wada Akane Yanagisawa Mashiro Yasunaga Megumu Yoshida	Team free routine	293.4522	3 Q	317.8085

Diving

Japan entered 9 divers.^[2]

Men

Athlete	Event	Preliminaries		Semifinals		Final
Athlete	Event	Points	Rank	Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Shu Ohkubo	10 m platform	336.65	29	Did not advance
Rikuto Tamai	1 m springboard	298.60	31	—		Did not advance
Rikuto Tamai	10 m platform	404.50	12 Q	427.70	7 Q	Withdrew
Haruki Suyama	3 m springboard	365.60	24	Did not advance
Yuto Araki Haruki Suyama	3 m synchro springboard	359.04	8 Q	—		375.90	7

Women

Athlete	Event	Preliminaries		Semifinals		Final
Athlete	Event	Points	Rank	Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Matsuri Arai	10 m platform	314.10	7 Q	313.95	7 Q	288.85	11
Haruka Enomoto	3 m springboard	232.80	34	Did not advance
Sayaka Mikami	3 m springboard	316.05	2 Q	340.55	3 Q	305.25	7
Matsuri Arai Minami Itahashi	10 m synchro platform	289.32	6 Q	—		284.76	5

Mixed

Athlete	Event	Final
Athlete	Event	Points	Rank
Hiroki Ito Minami Itahashi	10 m synchro platform	305.34

High diving

Athlete	Event	Points	Rank
Kyohei Arata	Men's high diving	222.65	20

Open water swimming

Japan entered 8 open water swimmers.^[3]^[4]

Men

Athlete	Event	Time	Rank
Riku Ezawa	Men's 5 km	59:40.6	40
Kaiki Furuhata	Men's 10 km	1:54:07.7	22
Taishin Minamide	Men's 10 km	1:54:12.6	28
Kaito Tsujimori	Men's 5 km	58:17.2	37

Women

Athlete	Event	Time	Rank
Airi Ebina	Women's 10 km	2:05:08.4	28
Ichika Kajimoto	Women's 5 km	1:00:56.4	14
Hanano Kato	Women's 10 km	2:07:26.4	33
Miku Kojima	Women's 5 km	1:02:28.8	35

Mixed

Athlete	Event	Time	Rank
Airi Ebina Kaiki Furuhata Ichika Kajimoto Kaito Tsujimori	Team relay	1:13:38.5	7

Swimming

Japan entered 39 swimmers.^[5]

Men

Athlete	Event	Heat		Semifinal		Final
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Yuya Hinomoto	50 m breaststroke	27.35	15 Q	27.25	11	Did not advance
Tomoru Honda	200 m butterfly	1:54.21	1 Q	1:54.43	5 Q	1:53.66
Tomoru Honda	400 m individual medley	4:16.71	14	—		Did not advance
Ryosuke Irie	50 m backstroke	25.11	16 Q	25.21	15	Did not advance
Ryosuke Irie	100 m backstroke	53.98	18	Did not advance
Takeshi Kawamoto	50 m backstroke	25.05	13 Q	25.14	14	Did not advance
Takeshi Kawamoto	50 m butterfly	23.79	35	Did not advance
Katsuhiro Matsumoto	100 m freestyle	48.58	21	Did not advance
	200 m freestyle	1:46.44	8 Q	1:45.97 1:46.37	8 SO 2	Did not advance
	100 m butterfly	51.48	10 Q	51.16	7 Q	51.20	6
Naoki Mizunuma	50 m butterfly	23.75	33	Did not advance
Naoki Mizunuma	100 m butterfly	51.93	19	Did not advance
Teppei Morimoto	200 m butterfly	1:55.72	10 Q	1:55.36	10	Did not advance
Katsumi Nakamura	50 m freestyle	22.21	27	Did not advance
So Ogata	200 m individual medley	1:57.88	3 Q	1:57.06	5 Q	1:57.82	8
Shoma Sato	200 m breaststroke	2:11.03	15 Q	2:10.72	14	Did not advance
Daiya Seto	200 m individual medley	1:57.80	2 Q	1:57.15	6 Q	1:56.70	6
Daiya Seto	400 m individual medley	4:10.89	3 Q	—		4:09.41
Shinri Shioura	50 m freestyle	22.15	23	Did not advance
Hidekazu Takehara	200 m backstroke	1:58.46	16 Q	1:58.10	14	Did not advance
Ippei Watanabe	100 m breaststroke	1:00.28	17	Did not advance
Ippei Watanabe	200 m breaststroke	2:10.11	8 Q	2:09.50	8 Q	2:08.78	6
Daiki Yanagawa	200 m backstroke	1:58.14	13 Q	1:57.23	7 Q	1:58.75	8
Katsuhiro Matsumoto Masahiro Kawane Tomonobu Gomi Katsumi Nakamura	4 × 100 m freestyle relay	3:14.84	13	—		Did not advance
Hidenari Mano Katsuhiro Matsumoto Taikan Tanaka Fuyu Yoshida	4 × 200 m freestyle relay	7:08.70	9	—		Did not advance
Ryosuke Irie Ippei Watanabe Naoki Mizunuma Katsuhiro Matsumoto	4 × 100 m medley relay	3:32.36	7 Q	—		3:32.58	6

Women

Athlete	Event	Heat		Semifinal		Final
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Reona Aoki	100 m breaststroke	1:06.61	10 Q	1:06.32	9	Did not advance
Hanane Hironaka	200 m backstroke	2:12.57	17	Did not advance
Rikako Ikee	50 m freestyle	25.27	20	Did not advance
	100 m freestyle	54.67	16 Q	54.86	15	Did not advance
	50 m butterfly	25.50	3 Q	25.72	5 Q	25.78	7
	100 m butterfly	58.61	17	Did not advance
Nagisa Ikemoto	200 m freestyle	1:59.23	22	Did not advance
Runa Imai	200 m breaststroke	2:25.27	8 Q	2:24.68	9	Did not advance
Waka Kobori	400 m freestyle	4:07.48	10	—		Did not advance
Waka Kobori	800 m freestyle	8:29.54	11	—		Did not advance
Hiroko Makino	200 m butterfly	2:09.03	8 Q	2:08.40	9	Did not advance
Airi Mitsui	200 m butterfly	2:08.54	6 Q	2:07.51	7 Q	2:07.15	5
Yukimi Moriyama	1500 m freestyle	16:18.66	13	—		Did not advance
Miyu Namba	400 m freestyle	4:10.23	16	—		Did not advance
Miyu Namba	800 m freestyle	8:34.62	16	—		Did not advance
Mio Narita	200 m individual medley	2:11.69	15 Q	2:12.24	12	Did not advance
Mio Narita	400 m individual medley	4:38.05	3 Q	—		4:42.14	8
Yui Ohashi	200 m individual medley	2:10.80	9 Q	2:10.32	5 Q	2:11.27	6
Rio Shirai	100 m backstroke	1:00.83	19	Did not advance
Rio Shirai	200 m backstroke	2:11.24	13 Q	2:12.45	14	Did not advance
Ai Soma	50 m butterfly	25.96	8 Q	26.18	15	Did not advance
Ai Soma	100 m butterfly	58.17	13 Q	58.27	14	Did not advance
Satomi Suzuki	50 m breaststroke	30.29	5 Q	30.33	8 Q	30.44	7
Satomi Suzuki	100 m breaststroke	1:06.20	5 Q	1:06.31	8 Q	1:06.67	8
Miki Takahashi	50 m backstroke	27.84	7 Q	28.13	14	Did not advance
Ageha Tanigawa	400 m individual medley	4:40.21	9	—		Did not advance
Rikako Ikee Nagisa Ikemoto Yume Jinno Rio Shirai	4 × 100 m freestyle relay	3:37.71	8 Q	—		3:38.61	8
Rio Shirai Nagisa Ikemoto Chihiro Igarashi Kinuko Mochizuki	4 × 200 m freestyle relay	7:57.22	9	—		Did not advance
Rio Shirai Satomi Suzuki Ai Soma Rikako Ikee Reona Aoki	4 × 100 m medley relay	3:58.58	8 Q	—		3:58.02	6

Mixed

Athlete	Event	Heat		Final
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Tomonobu Gomi Katsumi Nakamura Nagisa Ikemoto Yume Jinno	4 × 100 m freestyle relay	3:26.47	6 Q	3:26.96	7
Ryosuke Irie Ippei Watanabe Ai Soma Rikako Ikee	4 × 100 m medley relay	3:44.79	7 Q	3:45.33	7

Water polo

Summary

Team	Event	Group stage				Playoff	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final / BM
Team	Event	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Japan	Men's tournament	Hungary L 8–16	Argentina W 20–9	Croatia L 12–17	3 QP	Serbia L 10–16	—	Australia L 15–16	Canada W 23–11	11
Japan	Women's tournament	New Zealand L 16–17	Hungary L 21–26	Canada L 12–17	4	—	—	Argentina W 21–11	China L 10–18	14

Men's tournament

Team roster

The following is the Japanese roster.^[6]

Head coach: Yoshinori Shiota

Group play

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Hungary	3	3	0	49	31	+18	9	Quarterfinals
2	Croatia	3	2	1	51	29	+22	6	Playoffs
3	Japan (H)	3	1	2	40	42	−2	3	Playoffs
4	Argentina	3	0	3	27	65	−38	0

Source: Sportresult^{[dead link]}
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) head-to-head points; 3) head-to-head goal difference; 4) head-to-head number of goals scored; 5) Goal difference.
(H) Host

17 July 2023 19:00	Report^{[dead link]}	Hungary	16–8	Japan	Marine Messe Fukuoka, Fukuoka Referees: Zhang Liang (CHN), Nicola Johnson (AUS)
		Score by quarters: 4–4, 3–2, 3–1, 6–1
		Jansik, Zalánki 4	Goals	Suzuki, Takata 2

19 July 2023 19:00	Report^{[dead link]}	Japan	20–9	Argentina	Marine Messe Fukuoka, Fukuoka Referees: Zhang Liang (CHN), Darren Spiritsanto (USA)
		Score by quarters: 6–1, 4–2, 4–2, 6–4
		Watanabe 5	Goals	Martino 3

21 July 2023 19:00	Report^{[dead link]}	Croatia	17–12	Japan	Marine Messe Fukuoka, Fukuoka Referees: Georgios Stavridis (GRE), Michiel Zwartt (NED)
		Score by quarters: 4–3, 3–3, 8–3, 2–3
		Kharkov 4	Goals	Adachi 4

Playoffs

23 July 2023 18:30	Report^{[dead link]}	Japan	10–16	Serbia	Marine Messe Fukuoka, Fukuoka Referees: Tamás Kovács-Csatlós (HUN), Veselin Mišković (MNE)
		Score by quarters: 3–3, 2–3, 2–7, 3–3
		Inaba 4	Goals	Radulović, Rašović 3

9–12th place semifinals

25 July 2023 13:30	Report^{[dead link]}	Australia	16–15	Japan	Marine Messe Fukuoka, Fukuoka Referees: David Gómez (ESP), Darren Spiritsanto (USA)
		Score by quarters: 5–3, 4–7, 4–3, 3–2
		Pavillard 4	Goals	Adachi, Takata 4

Eleventh place game

27 July 2023 09:00	Report^{[dead link]}	Canada	11–23	Japan	Marine Messe Fukuoka, Fukuoka Referees: Vojin Putniković (SRB), Darren Spiritosanto (USA)
		Score by quarters: 3–6, 3–6, 2–8, 3–3
		Djerkovic 3	Goals	Inaba 5

Women's tournament

Team roster

The following is the Japanese roster.^[7]

Head coach: Yoji Omoto

Group play

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Hungary	3	3	0	60	36	+24	9	Quarterfinals
2	Canada	3	2	1	40	34	+6	6	Playoffs
3	New Zealand	3	1	2	33	52	−19	3	Playoffs
4	Japan (H)	3	0	3	49	60	−11	0

Source: Sportresult^{[dead link]}
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) head-to-head points; 3) head-to-head goal difference; 4) head-to-head number of goals scored; 5) Goal difference.
(H) Host

16 July 2023 19:00	Report^{[dead link]}	New Zealand	17–16	Japan	Marine Messe Fukuoka, Fukuoka Referees: Jennifer McCall (USA), Matan Schwartz (ISR)
		Score by quarters: 5–5, 4–3, 4–5, 4–3
		Doyle 5	Goals	Ura 5

18 July 2023 19:00	Report^{[dead link]}	Japan	21–26	Hungary	Marine Messe Fukuoka, Fukuoka Referees: Matan Schwartz (ISR), Frank Ohme (GER)
		Score by quarters: 4–5, 6–8, 5–7, 6–6
		Arima 7	Goals	Hajdú 5

20 July 2023 19:00	Report^{[dead link]}	Canada	17–12	Japan	Marine Messe Fukuoka, Fukuoka Referees: Adil Aimbetov (KAZ), Nicola Johnson (AUS)
		Score by quarters: 5–1, 3–3, 5–4, 4–4
		Lemay-Lavoie 5	Goals	Arima, Kawaguchi 4

13–16th place semifinals

22 July 2023 10:30	Report^{[dead link]}	Argentina	11–21	Japan	Marine Messe Fukuoka, Fukuoka Referees: Alessia Ferrari (ITA), Lee-Anne Stewart (RSA)
		Score by quarters: 0–8, 3–4, 5–4, 3–5
		Bacigalupo 3	Goals	Arima, Nishiyama 4

13th place game

24 July 2023 10:30	Report^{[dead link]}	China	18–10	Japan	Marine Messe Fukuoka, Fukuoka Referees: Adil Aimbetov (KAZ), Lee-Anne Stewart (RSA)
		Score by quarters: 4–3, 5–3, 4–3, 5–1
		Lu, Yan J. 3	Goals	Ura 3

References

^ "Competition Athletes | FINA Official". FINA - Fédération Internationale De Natation.
^ "20th World Aquatics World Championships Diving Entry List" (PDF). Omega Timing. 12 July 2023. Retrieved 12 July 2023.
^ "20th World Aquatics World Championships Open Water Swimming Entry List - Men" (PDF). Omega Timing. 12 July 2023. Retrieved 12 July 2023.
^ "20th World Aquatics World Championships Open Water Swimming Entry List - Women" (PDF). Omega Timing. 12 July 2023. Retrieved 12 July 2023.
^ "20th World Aquatics World Championships Swimming Entry List" (PDF). Omega Timing. 23 July 2023. Retrieved 23 July 2023.
^ "20th World Aquatics World Championships Men's Water Polo Team Roster JPN" (PDF). waterpolo.sportresult.com. Omega Timing. 15 July 2023. Archived from the original (PDF) on 16 July 2023. Retrieved 16 July 2023.
^ "20th World Aquatics World Championships Women's Water Polo Team Roster JPN" (PDF). waterpolo.sportresult.com. Omega Timing. 15 July 2023. Archived from the original (PDF) on 16 July 2023. Retrieved 16 July 2023.

[1] "Competition Athletes | FINA Official". FINA - Fédération Internationale De Natation.

[2] "20th World Aquatics World Championships Diving Entry List" (PDF). Omega Timing. 12 July 2023. Retrieved 12 July 2023.

[3] "20th World Aquatics World Championships Open Water Swimming Entry List - Men" (PDF). Omega Timing. 12 July 2023. Retrieved 12 July 2023.

[4] "20th World Aquatics World Championships Open Water Swimming Entry List - Women" (PDF). Omega Timing. 12 July 2023. Retrieved 12 July 2023.

[5] "20th World Aquatics World Championships Swimming Entry List" (PDF). Omega Timing. 23 July 2023. Retrieved 23 July 2023.

[6] "20th World Aquatics World Championships Men's Water Polo Team Roster JPN" (PDF). waterpolo.sportresult.com. Omega Timing. 15 July 2023. Archived from the original (PDF) on 16 July 2023. Retrieved 16 July 2023.

[7] "20th World Aquatics World Championships Women's Water Polo Team Roster JPN" (PDF). waterpolo.sportresult.com. Omega Timing. 15 July 2023. Archived from the original (PDF) on 16 July 2023. Retrieved 16 July 2023.

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v t e Nations at the 2023 World Aquatics Championships in Fukuoka, Japan
Africa	Algeria Angola Benin Botswana Burkina Faso Burundi Cameroon Cape Verde Central African Republic Comoros Congo Djibouti Egypt Eswatini Ethiopia Gabon The Gambia Ghana Guinea Guinea-Bissau Ivory Coast Lesotho Libya Madagascar Malawi Mali Mauritius Morocco Mozambique Namibia Niger Nigeria Rwanda Senegal Seychelles Sierra Leone South Africa Sudan Tanzania Togo Tunisia Uganda Zambia Zimbabwe
Americas	Anguilla Antigua and Barbuda Argentina Aruba Bahamas Barbados Bermuda Bolivia Brazil Canada Cayman Islands Chile Colombia Costa Rica Cuba Curaçao Dominica Dominican Republic Ecuador El Salvador Grenada Guatemala Guyana Haiti Honduras Jamaica Mexico Nicaragua Panama Paraguay Peru Puerto Rico Saint Kitts and Nevis Saint Lucia Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Sint Maarten Suriname Trinidad and Tobago Turks and Caicos Islands United States Uruguay Venezuela Virgin Islands
Asia	Afghanistan Bahrain Bangladesh Bhutan Brunei Cambodia China Chinese Taipei Hong Kong India Indonesia Iran Iraq Japan Jordan Kazakhstan Kuwait Kyrgyzstan Laos Lebanon Macau Malaysia Maldives Mongolia Nepal Oman Pakistan Palestine Qatar Saudi Arabia Singapore South Korea Sri Lanka Syria Tajikistan Thailand Timor-Leste Turkmenistan United Arab Emirates Uzbekistan Vietnam Yemen
Europe	Albania Andorra Armenia Austria Belgium Bosnia and Herzegovina Bulgaria Croatia Cyprus Czech Republic Denmark Estonia Faroe Islands Finland France Georgia Germany Great Britain Greece Hungary Iceland Ireland Israel Italy Kosovo Latvia Liechtenstein Lithuania Luxembourg Malta Moldova Montenegro Monaco Netherlands North Macedonia Norway Poland Portugal Romania San Marino Serbia Slovakia Slovenia Spain Sweden Switzerland Turkey Ukraine
Oceania	American Samoa Australia Cook Islands Fiji Guam Marshall Islands Micronesia New Zealand Northern Mariana Islands Palau Papua New Guinea Samoa Solomon Islands Tonga Vanuatu
Others	World Aquatics Refugee Team Suspended Member Federation