Asami Kitagawa
Japanese swimmer (born 1987)
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Nationality | Japan | |||||||||||
Born | (1987-10-03) October 3, 1987 (age 36) Iwatsuki-ku, Saitama, Japan | |||||||||||
Height | 162 cm (5 ft 4 in) | |||||||||||
Weight | 49 kg (108 lb) | |||||||||||
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Sport | Swimming | |||||||||||
Strokes | Breaststroke, IM | |||||||||||
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Asami Kitagawa (北川 麻美, Kitagawa Asami) (born October 3, 1987) is a Japanese Olympic and Nation Record holding swimmer. She swam for Japan at the 2008 Olympics.
Major achievements
- 50m breaststroke 2nd (32.27)
- 100m breaststroke 1st (1:09.13)
- 200m breaststroke 4th (2:28.81)
- 200m individual medley 2nd (2:14.51)
- 4 × 100 m medley relay 2nd (4:05.14)
2008 Beijing Olympics
- 100m breaststroke 8th (Heat 1:08.36, Semifinal 1:08.23, Final 1:08.43)
- 200m individual medley 6th (Heat 2:12.47 JR, Semifinal 2:12.02 JR, Final 2:11.56 JR)
- 4 × 100 m freestyle relay 9th (Heat 3:39.25 JR)
- 4 × 100 m medley relay 6th (Heat 3:59.91, Final 3:59.54 JR)
JR: Japanese Record
Personal bests
In long course
- 100m breaststroke: 1:08.23 (August 11, 2008)
- 200m individual medley: 2:11.44 Japanese Record (September 6, 2008)
In short course
- 100m breaststroke: 1:05.17 Asian, Japanese Record (February 21, 2009)
- 100m individual medley: 1:00.01 Japanese Record (February 21, 2009)
- 200m individual medley: 2:08.77 Asian, Japanese Record (February 22, 2009)
References
- http://www.joc.or.jp/beijing/athlete/aquatics/kitagawaasami.html
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Asian Games champions in women's 100 m breaststroke
- 1958 Yoshiko Takamatsu (JPN)
- 1962 Noriko Yamamoto (JPN)
- 1966 Yoshiko Morizane (JPN)
- 1970 Hitomi Tanigami (JPN)
- 1974 Toshiko Haruoka (JPN)
- 1978 Chieko Watanabe (JPN)
- 1982 Hiroko Nagasaki (JPN)
- 1986 Huang Xiaomin (CHN)
- 1990 Huang Xiaomin (CHN)
- 1994 Dai Guohong (CHN)
- 1998 Li Wei (CHN)
- 2002 Luo Xuejuan (CHN)
- 2006 Asami Kitagawa (JPN)
- 2010 Ji Liping (CHN)
- 2014 Shi Jinglin (CHN)
- 2018 Satomi Suzuki (JPN)
- 2022 Reona Aoki (JPN)
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