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PHX’s own Kohei Kawamoto blazes fast 100m
LC fly.
JapanNational Sports Festival: Kohei
Kawamoto Sets Asian Record
NAGAOKA, Niigata, Japan, September 11. DURING the
64th edition of the Japan National Sports Festival, which began
yesterday in Niigata, Japan, an Asian and Japanese record fell.
Kohei Kawamoto just missed becoming the ninth member of the
50-second club in the men's 100 fly with a 51-flat winning time
(51.00). The swim broke the Asian record of 51.24 set by Takuro
Fujii at the World Championships. Kawamoto move ahead of Brazil's
Gabriel Mangabeira as the ninth-fastest performer of all time.
Kawamoto is a 29-year-old veteran who finished third at the World
Championship Trials with a 51.91 in April.
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