Japan at the 2022 World Aquatics Championships

Japan competed at the 2022 World Aquatics Championships in Budapest, Hungary from 18 June to 3 July.^[1] 58 competitors took part in all 5 sports held at the championships; artistic swimming, open water swimming, swimming, diving, and water polo.

Japan at the 2022 World Aquatics Championships
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FINA code	JPN
National federation	Japan Swimming Federation
Website	swim.or.jp
in Budapest, Hungary
Competitors	58 in 5 sports
Medals	Gold 2 Silver 8 Bronze 3 Total 13
World Aquatics Championships appearances
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Medalists

Medal Name Sport Event Date  Gold Yukiko Inui Artistic swimming Solo technical routine June 18  Gold Yukiko Inui Artistic swimming Solo free routine June 22  Silver Tomoka Sato Yotaro Sato Artistic swimming Mixed Duet technical routine June 20  Silver Moka Fujii Moe Higa Moeka Kijima Tomoka Sato Hikari Suzuki Akane Yanagisawa Mashiro Yasunaga Megumu Yoshida Artistic swimming Free routine combination June 20  Silver Moka Fujii Moe Higa Moeka Kijima Tomoka Sato Hikari Suzuki Akane Yanagisawa Mashiro Yasunaga Megumu Yoshida Artistic swimming Team technical routine June 21  Silver Yu Hanaguruma Swimming Men's 200 metre breaststroke June 23  Silver Naoki Mizunuma Swimming Men's 100 metre butterfly June 24  Silver Tomoka Sato Yotaro Sato Artistic swimming Mixed Duet free routine June 25  Silver Rin Kaneto Sayaka Mikami Diving Women's synchronized 3 metre springboard July 3  Silver Rikuto Tamai Diving Men's 10 metre platform July 3  Bronze Tomoru Honda Swimming Men's 200 metre butterfly June 21  Bronze Daiya Seto Swimming Men's 200 metre individual medley June 22  Bronze Moka Fujii Moe Higa Moeka Kijima Tomoka Sato Hikari Suzuki Akane Yanagisawa Mashiro Yasunaga Megumu Yoshida Artistic swimming Team free routine June 24

Medals by sport Sport Total Artistic swimming 2 4 1 7 Swimming 0 2 2 4 Diving 0 2 0 2 Total 2 8 3 13

Artistic Swimming

Main article: Artistic swimming at the 2022 World Aquatics Championships

Japan entered 13 artistic swimmers.^[2][3]

Women

Athlete	Event	Preliminaries		Final
		Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Yukiko Inui	Solo technical routine	91.9189	1 Q	92.8662
	Solo free routine	94.5667	1 Q	95.3667
Moe Higa Megumu Yoshida	Duet technical routine	90.0294	4 Q	89.9444	4
Moka Fujii Moe Higa Moeka Kijima Tomoka Sato Akane Yanagisawa Mashiro Yasunaga Megumu Yoshida Rie Yoshida	Team technical routine	91.2049	2 Q	92.2261
Moka Fujii Moe Higa Moeka Kijima Tomoka Sato Hikari Suzuki Akane Yanagisawa Mashiro Yasunaga Megumu Yoshida	Team free routine	92.7667	3 Q	93.1333
Moka Fujii Moe Higa Asaka Hosokawa Yuka Kawase Moeka Kijima Hikari Suzuki Akane Yanagisawa Mashiro Yasunaga Megumu Yoshida Rie Yoshida	Free routine combination	92.8333	2 Q	93.5667

Mixed

Athlete	Event	Preliminaries		Final
		Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Tomoka Sato Yotaro Sato	Duet technical routine	85.8086	2 Q	86.5939
	Duet free routine	88.9000	2 Q	89.7333

Diving

Main article: Diving at the 2022 World Aquatics Championships

Japan entered 9 divers.^{[4] [5]}

Men

Athlete	Event	Preliminaries		Semifinals		Final
		Points	Rank	Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Shu Ohkubo	10 m platform	381.10	12 Q	373.75	12 Q	370.25	12
Sho Sakai	3 m springboard	401.95	5 Q	360.95	12 Q	424.00	6
Haruki Suyama	3 m springboard	364.45	18 Q	392.75	9 Q	344.90	12
Rikuto Tamai	1 m springboard	366.70	5 Q	—		326.60	11
	10 m platform	455.50	3 Q	471.95	3 Q	488.00

Women

Athlete	Event	Preliminaries		Semifinals		Final
		Points	Rank	Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Matsuri Arai	10 m platform	270.60	17 Q	316.70	5 Q	307.00	6
Haruka Enomoto	3 m springboard	273.45	14 Q	280.90	10 Q	281.05	10
Minami Itahashi	10 m platform	239.75	21	did not advance
Sayaka Mikami	3 m springboard	209.65	6 Q	297.00	6 Q	294.70	7
Rin Kaneto Sayaka Mikami	3 m synchronized springboard	275.10	5 Q	—		303.00
Matsuri Arai Minami Itahashi	10 m synchronized platform	275.46	4 Q	—		297.84	4

Mixed

Athlete	Event	Points	Rank
Haruki Suyama Haruka Enomoto	3 m synchronized springboard	266.46	9

Open water swimming

Main article: Open water swimming at the 2022 World Aquatics Championships

Japan entered 7 open water swimmers^[6] ( 3 male^[7] and 4 female^[8])

Men

Athlete	Event	Time	Rank
Kaiki Furuhata	Men's 5 km	56:24.6	18
Taishin Minamide	Men's 5 km	56:22.3	16
	Men's 10 km	1:54:28.5	16
	Men's 25 km	5:09:26.1	14
Taiki Nonaka	Men's 10 km	1:58:42.5	29

Women

Athlete	Event	Time	Rank
Airi Ebina	Women's 5 km	1:00:00.0	11
	Women's 10 km	2:05:51.7	21
Hanano Kato	Women's 25 km	5:26:30.9	9
Yukimi Moriyama	Women's 5 km	1:00:03.7	13
Yumi Tou	Women's 10 km	2:10:32.2	40

Mixed

Athlete	Event	Time	Rank
Airi Ebina Kaiki Furuhata Yukimi Moriyama Taishin Minamide	Team	1:06:32.9	9

Swimming

Main article: Swimming at the 2022 World Aquatics Championships

Japan entered 18 swimmers.^{[9] [10]}

Men

Athlete	Event	Heat		Semifinal		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Yu Hanaguruma	200 m breaststroke	2:09.86	6 Q	2:08.75	3 Q	2:08.38
Tomoru Honda	200 m butterfly	1:54.94	3 Q	1:54.01	2 Q	1:53.61
	400 m individual medley	4:12.24	6 Q	—		4:12.20	7
Ryosuke Irie	50 m backstroke	24.85	8 Q	Withdrew		did not advance
	100 m backstroke	53.16	2 Q	52.85	7 Q	52.83	7
Katsuhiro Matsumoto	100 m freestyle	48.83	23	did not advance
	200 m freestyle	1:46.72	10 Q	1:46.63	=12	did not advance
	100 m butterfly	51.78	11 Q	51.57	13	did not advance
Naoki Mizunuma	50 m butterfly	23.60	20	did not advance
	100 m butterfly	51.46	5 Q	50.81 NR	2 Q	50.94
Ryuya Mura	100 m breaststroke	59.90	=7 Q	59.64	10	did not advance
	200 m breaststroke	2:10.20	8 Q	2:09.69	8 Q	2:08.86	4
Daiya Seto	200 m individual medley	1:58.29	3 Q	1:56.74	3 Q	1:56.22
	400 m individual medley	4:10.51	4 Q	—		4:11.93	6
Takumi Terada	200 m butterfly	1:56.70	15 Q	1:56.07	13	did not advance
Ryosuke Irie Ryuya Mura Naoki Mizunuma Katsuhiro Matsumoto	4 × 100 m medley relay	3:34.17	9	—		did not advance

Women

Athlete	Event	Heat		Semifinal		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Reona Aoki	50 m breaststroke	30.80	12 Q	30.71	11	did not advance
	100 m breaststroke	1:07.35	16 Q	1:06.07	5 Q	1:06.38	5
Kina Hayashi	200 m butterfly	2:08.63	3 Q	2:08.32	9	did not advance
Waka Kobori	400 m freestyle	4:08.55	11	—		did not advance
Chiho Mizuguchi	200 m butterfly	2:11.65	16 Q	2:12.54	16	did not advance
Miyu Namba	400 m freestyle	4:08.07	9	—		did not advance
	800 m freestyle	8:32.91	10	—		did not advance
	1500 m freestyle	16:20.45	10	—		did not advance
Yui Ohashi	200 m individual medley	2:12.22	12 Q	2:12.05	13	did not advance
	400 m individual medley	4:39.52	6 Q	—		4:37.99	5
Rika Omoto	50 m freestyle	25.38	18	did not advance
	200 m individual medley	2:11.28	8 Q	2:10.65	7	2:10.01	4
Ageha Tanigawa	400 m individual medley	4:40.70	8 Q	—		4:44.28	8
Momoka Yoshii Miyu Namba Aoi Masuda Waka Kobori	4 × 200 m freestyle relay	7:58.67	7 Q	—		8:00.03	8

Mixed

Athlete	Event	Heat		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Ryosuke Irie Reona Aoki Naoki Mizunuma Rika Omoto	4 × 100 m medley relay	3:45.08	6 Q	3:45.28	7

Water polo

Main article: Water polo at the 2022 World Aquatics Championships

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Summary

Team	Event	Group stage				Playoff	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final / BM
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Japan	Men's tournament	Germany W 12–11	Greece L 7–18	Croatia L 13–21	3 P/off	Montenegro L 9–10	—	Australia W 15–7	Georgia W 16–15	9

Men's tournament

Main article: Water polo at the 2022 World Aquatics Championships – Men's tournament

Team roster

The following is Japanese roster in the Water polo at the 2022 World Aquatics Championships – Men's tournament.^[12]

Head coach: Yoshinori Shiota

• 1 Katsuyuki Tanamura GK
• 2 Seiya Adachi FP
• 3 Taiyo Watanabe FP
• 4 Daichi Ogihara FP
• 5 Yuki Maita FP
• 6 Toi Suzuki FP
• 7 Kiyomu Date FP
• 8 Mitsuru Takata FP
• 9 Atsushi Arai FP
• 10 Yusuke Inaba FP
• 11 Keigo Okawa FP
• 12 Kenta Araki FP
• 13 Tomoyoshi Fukushima GK

Group play

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Greece	3	2	1	0	42	23	+19	5[a]	Quarterfinals
2	Croatia	3	2	1	0	42	30	+12	5[a]	Playoffs
3	Japan	3	1	0	2	32	50	−18	2
4	Germany	3	0	0	3	28	41	−13	0

Source: Sportresult
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.
Notes:

1. Greece 8–8 Croatia

21 June 2022 18:00	Report	Germany	11–12	Japan	Debrecen Swimming Pool Complex, Debrecen Referees: Ivan Raković (SRB), Adil Aimbetov (KAZ)
		Score by quarters: 2–5, 2–3, 2–3, 5–1
		Schütze 3	Goals	Inaba 5

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23 June 2022 19:30	Report	Japan	7–18	Greece	Debrecen Swimming Pool Complex, Debrecen Referees: Adil Aimbetov (KAZ), Michael Goldenberg (USA)
		Score by quarters: 1–3, 2–4, 2–5, 2–6
		three players 2	Goals	Argyropoulos 6

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25 June 2022 18:00	Report	Japan	13–21	Croatia	Debrecen Swimming Pool Complex, Debrecen Referees: Michael Goldenberg (USA), David Gómez (ESP)
		Score by quarters: 3–4, 6–3, 2–7, 2–7
		Inaba 5	Goals	Kharkov, Krapić 5

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Playoffs

27 June 2022 14:00	Report	Montenegro	10–9	Japan	Alfréd Hajós National Swimming Stadium, Budapest Referees: Michael Goldenberg (USA), Michiel Zwart (NED)
		Score by quarters: 3–1, 2–5, 3–2, 2–1
		Perković 3	Goals	Takata 2

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9–12th place semifinals

29 June 2022 17:00	Report	Japan	15–7	Australia	Szeged Tiszavirág Pool, Szeged Referees: Ivan Raković (SRB), Veselin Mišković (MNE)
		Score by quarters: 2–2, 5–2, 5–2, 3–1
		Date 4	Goals	seven players 1

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Ninth place game

1 July 2022 18:30	Report	Japan	16–15	Georgia	Szeged Tiszavirág Pool, Szeged Referees: Veselin Mišković (MNE), Ivan Raković (SRB)
		Score by quarters: 3–5, 7–4, 2–2, 4–4
		Adachi 5	Goals	Bitadze, Vapenski 4

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