Megumi Taneda Explained

Megumi Taneda
Fullname:Megumi Taneda
Strokes:Breaststroke
Club:JSS Nagaoka
Coach:Yoshiaki Takemura
Birth Date:20 September 1986
Birth Place:Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan
Height:1.620NaN0
Weight:570NaN0
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is a Japanese swimmer, who specialized in breaststroke events.[1] [2] She claimed the 200 m breaststroke title in a close race against U.S. swimmer and eventual Olympic champion Rebecca Soni by 0.03 of a second at the 2005 Summer Universiade in Izmir, Turkey with a time of 2:27.81.[3] [4] Taneda is an economics graduate at Kanagawa University in Kanagawa.

Taneda competed for the Japanese team in a breaststroke double at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. Leading up to the Games, she emerged the only swimmer to meet the Olympic qualifying standard in the 100 m breaststroke with a 1:07.91, and then beat her rival Rie Kaneto to clear the FINA-A cut time in 2:24.54 for a 200 m breaststroke victory at the Olympic trials in Tokyo.[5] [6] On the second day of the Games, Taneda missed out the semifinals by 0.08 of a second, after finishing seventeenth in the preliminary heats of the 100 m breaststroke in 1:08.45.[7] In her second event, 200 m breaststroke, Taneda rounded out the final in last place by nine hundredths of a second (0.09) behind her teammate Rie Kaneto in 2:25.23.[8] [9]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Megumi Taneda . . 16 January 2016 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20080908205337/http://results.beijing2008.cn/WRM/ENG/BIO/Athlete/5/223935.shtml . 8 September 2008 .
  2. Megumi Taneda. https://web.archive.org/web/20200417212124/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ta/megumi-taneda-1.html. dead. 17 April 2020. 4 December 2012.
  3. News: World University Games Day 3 . https://archive.today/20130630103409/http://www.swimmingworldmagazine.com/lane9/news/9930.asp . dead . 30 June 2013 . . 14 August 2005 . 7 April 2013 .
  4. News: Harvest Day for US, China. People's Daily. 15 August 2005. 7 April 2013.
  5. News: Mochizuki. Hideki. Japanese Olympic Trials: Masayuki Kishida Sets National Record. Swimming World Magazine. 20 April 2008. 4 December 2012. dead. https://archive.today/20130203063445/http://www.swimmingworldmagazine.com/lane9/news/17892.asp. 3 February 2013.
  6. News: Mochizuki . Hideki . Japanese Olympic Trials: Add Hanae Itoh to Sub-Minute 100 Back Club . . 17 April 2008 . 7 April 2013 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110101205650/http://www.swimmingworldmagazine.com/lane9/news/17875.asp . 1 January 2011 .
  7. Web site: Women's 100m Breaststroke Heat 6 . . . 4 December 2012 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120821032037/http://www.2008.nbcolympics.com/swimming/resultsandschedules/rsc%3DSWW031900/index.html . 21 August 2012 .
  8. Web site: Women's 200m Breaststroke Final. Beijing 2008. NBC Olympics. 4 December 2012. https://web.archive.org/web/20120821062048/http://www.2008.nbcolympics.com/swimming/resultsandschedules/rsc=SWW032100/index.html. 21 August 2012. dead.
  9. News: Lohn. John. Olympics, Swimming: Rebecca Soni Upsets Leisel Jones With 200 Breast World Record. Swimming World Magazine. 14 August 2008. 7 April 2013. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20120502195332/http://www.swimmingworldmagazine.com/lane9/news/18826.asp. 2 May 2012.

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