Akihiro Yamaguchi
Akihiro Yamaguchi 
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| Personal information | |
| Surname: | Akihiro Yamaguchi |
| Nation: |
 Japan
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| Swimming style (s) : | chest |
| Society: | DC Shibushi |
| Birthday: | September 11, 1994 |
| Place of birth: | Shibushi |
| Size: | 1.75 m |
| Weight: | 67 kg |
Akihiro Yamaguchi ( Japanese 山口 観 弘 , Yamaguchi Akihiro ; born September 11, 1994 in Shibushi , Kagoshima Prefecture ) is a Japanese swimmer and world record holder over 200 m chest on the long course.
Career
At the World Youth Swimming Championships in Lima in 2011 , Yamaguchi won four medals, including a gold medal in the 200m breaststroke with a time of 2: 11.70.
Yamaguchi set the world record for the 200 m chest on the long track on September 15, 2012 at the National Sports Festival of Japan with a time of 2: 07.01. He improved the previous record, swum by Dániel Gyurta , by 27 hundredths of a second.
Records
| World records (1) | |||
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| 200 m chest | 02: 07.01 min | 15th September 2012 | Gifu |
Web links
- Akihiro Yamaguchi in the Swimrankings.net database (English) (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Agence France-Presse: Schoolboy Akihiro Yamaguchi sets 200m breaststroke world record ( Memento of the original from September 18, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , ndtv.com of September 15, 2012, accessed July 25, 2016
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Yamaguchi, Akihiro |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | 山口 観 弘 (Japanese) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Japanese swimmer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 11, 1994 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Shibushi , Kagoshima Prefecture , Japan |