Rie Kaneto

In this Japanese name, the family name is Kaneto.
Rie Kaneto

Kazan 2015
Personal information
Full name Rie Kaneto
National team  Japan
Born (1988-09-08) 8 September 1988
Shobara, Hiroshima, Japan
Height 1.74 m (5 ft 9 in)
Weight 67 kg (148 lb)
Sport
Sport Swimming
Strokes Breaststroke
Club Donghai SC
Coach Tsuyoshi Kato

Rie Kaneto (金藤 理絵 Kanetō Rie, born 8 September 1988) is a Japanese competitive swimmer who specializes in breaststroke events.[1] She won the gold medal in the 200 meter breaststroke at the 2016 Summer Olympics.

Career

She represented her nation Japan, as a 19-year-old junior, at the 2008 Summer Olympics and has won a career total of four medals in a major international competition, spanning two editions of the Summer Universiade (2007 and 2009), the Short Course Worlds, and the Pan Pacific Championships. Apart from her Olympic career, Kaneto also demolished both a Japanese and Asian record of 2:20.72 at the Japan University Championships in Kumamoto.[2] Kaneto is a physical education graduate at Tokai University in Hiroshima.

Kaneto made her international swimming debut at the 2007 Summer Universiade in Bangkok, Thailand, quickly claiming a silver medal in the 200 m breaststroke by less than 0.04 of a second behind South Korea's Jung Seul-ki in 2:25.63. Kaneto's best effort at these Games vaulted her up to twelfth in the world rankings.[3][4]

Kaneto earned her first selection to the Japanese team to compete in the women's 200 m breaststroke at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. Leading up to the Games, she placed second behind Megumi Taneda at the Olympic trials in Tokyo with a FINA A-standard entry time of 2:26.28.[5] Kaneto touched out Taneda to take the seventh spot in the final by nine hundredths of a second (0.09), in an outstanding time of 2:25.14.[6][7]

At the 2009 Summer Universiade in Belgrade, Serbia, Kaneto set an Asian and Japanese mark of 2:22.32 to claim the 200 m breaststroke title, just a single hundredth margin off her record from the national championships (2:22.33).[8]

In 2010, Kaneto surprisingly missed out the podium in the 200 m breaststroke at the Asian Games in Guangzhou, China, when she placed fourth behind two Chinese swimmers and new champion Jeong Da-rae of South Korea in 2:25.63.[9]

References

  1. ↑ "Rie Kaneto". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 4 December 2012.
  2. ↑ Mochizuki, Hideki (6 September 2009). "Japan University Championships: Rie Kaneto Smashes Asian Record in 200 Breast". Swimming World Magazine. Retrieved 4 December 2012.
  3. ↑ "World University Games: Exciting Finishes Highlight Third Night of Swimming". Swimming World Magazine. 11 August 2007. Retrieved 7 April 2013.
  4. ↑ "Canadians make splash at Bangkok Universiade". The Ottawa Citizen. Canada.com. 12 August 2007. Retrieved 7 April 2013.
  5. ↑ Mochizuki, Hideki (20 April 2008). "Japanese Olympic Trials: Masayuki Kishida Sets National Record". Swimming World Magazine. Retrieved 4 December 2012.
  6. ↑ "Women's 200m Breaststroke Final". Beijing 2008. NBC Olympics. Retrieved 4 December 2012.
  7. ↑ Lohn, John (14 August 2008). "Olympics, Swimming: Rebecca Soni Upsets Leisel Jones With 200 Breast World Record". Swimming World Magazine. Retrieved 7 April 2013.
  8. ↑ "World University Games, Swimming: Jason Dunford Sets African Record, Rie Kaneto Claims Asian Mark, Incredible 50 Breast Semis". Swimming World Magazine. 9 July 2009. Retrieved 7 April 2013.
  9. ↑ "Asian Games: Tae Hwan Park Earns Third Gold, Zhao Jing Still Posting Fast Times". Swimming World Magazine. 17 November 2010. Retrieved 7 April 2013.
Awards
Preceded by
Emily Seebohm		 Pacific Rim Swimmer of the Year
2016 		Succeeded by
Incumbent
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