Kanako Watanabe
Kanako Watanabe 
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Watanabe (left), award ceremony for the 200 m individual medley World Cup 2015 |
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| Surname: | Kanako Watanabe | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Nation: | Japan | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Swimming style (s) : | Chest, layers | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Birthday: | November 15, 1996 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth: | Katsushika , Tokyo | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Size: | 1.67 m | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight: | 57 kg | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Kanako Watanabe ( Japanese 渡 部 香 生子 , Watanabe Kanako ; born November 15, 1996 in Katsushika , Tokyo ) is a Japanese swimming athlete specializing in the chest position . She is the current world champion in the 200 meter chest on the long track.
career
Kanako Watanabe started swimming when she was 4 years old. In 2011 she won the Japan Open in the 100 and 200 m breaststroke and came second in the 2012 Japanese Championships in the 200 m breaststroke.
Watanabe traveled to the Olympic Games in London in 2012 as a fifteen-year-old and was thus the youngest participant in Japan and was eliminated in the first semi-final over 200 meters chest.
Watanabe had already won a bronze medal at the short course world championships in Singapore in 2012 on her favorite distance of 200 meters in 2: 19.39. Here Møller Pedersen (2: 16.08, ER) won ahead of the American Laura Sogar (2: 16.93).
Also worth mentioning are gold and silver at the Pan Pacific Swimming Championships in 2014: gold over 200 and silver over 100 meters chest, beaten by four hundredths of a second on the latter route by American Jessica Hardy .
At the short course world championships a year earlier in Doha , it was also gold in the 200 meters chest in 2: 16.92 ahead of compatriot Rie Kaneto (2: 17.43) and the Danish Rikke Møller Pedersen (2: 17.83). In addition, there was bronze with the Japanese 4 × 100 meter relay relay behind Denmark and Australia. At the 2015 World Swimming Championships in Kazan, Russia, Watanabe won the long chest distance in 2: 21.15 minutes ahead of the American Micah Lawrence (2: 22.44) and the Spaniard Jessica Vall (2: 22.76). She won over 200 meter medley in 2: 08.45 silver behind the Hungarian Katinka Hosszú (2: 06.12, WR) and ahead of the British Siobhan-Marie O'Connor (2: 08.77).
Web links
- Kanako Watanabe , swimswam
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b 渡 部 香 生子 脱 反抗 期 で ３ 冠 . In: Nikkan Sports. April 14, 2014, Retrieved January 7, 2016 (Japanese).
- ↑ 2012 Olympic Profile: Kanako Watanabe , blogs.wsj.com
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| SURNAME | Watanabe, Kanako |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | 渡 部 香 生子 (Japanese) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Japanese swimmer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 15, 1996 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Katsushika , Tokyo |