Asami Kitagawa
Appearance
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Nationality | Japan | |||||||||||
Born | Iwatsuki-ku, Saitama, Japan | October 3, 1987|||||||||||
Height | 162 cm (5 ft 4 in) | |||||||||||
Weight | 49 kg (108 lb) | |||||||||||
Sport | ||||||||||||
Sport | Swimming | |||||||||||
Strokes | Breaststroke, IM | |||||||||||
Medal record
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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
[edit]- 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
[edit]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
[edit]Categories:
- 1987 births
- Living people
- Olympic swimmers for Japan
- Japanese female medley swimmers
- Swimmers at the 2008 Summer Olympics
- Sportspeople from Saitama (city)
- Asian Games medalists in swimming
- Swimmers at the 2006 Asian Games
- Japanese female breaststroke swimmers
- Summer World University Games medalists in swimming
- Asian Games gold medalists for Japan
- Asian Games silver medalists for Japan
- Medalists at the 2006 Asian Games
- FISU World University Games silver medalists for Japan
- Medalists at the 2009 Summer Universiade
- 21st-century Japanese sportswomen
- Japanese swimming biography stubs