Rie Kaneto Explained

Rie Kaneto
Fullname:Rie Kaneto
Strokes:Breaststroke
Club:Tokai SC
Coach:Tsuyoshi Kato
Birth Date:8 September 1988
Birth Place:Shobara, Hiroshima, Japan
Height:174 cm
Weight:67 kg

is a Japanese competitive swimmer who specializes in breaststroke events.[1] She won the gold medal in the 200 meter breaststroke at the 2016 Summer Olympics.

Career

She represented her nation Japan, as a 19-year-old junior, at the 2008 Summer Olympics and has won a career total of four medals in a major international competition, spanning two editions of the Summer Universiade (2007 and 2009), the Short Course Worlds, and the Pan Pacific Championships. Apart from her Olympic career, Kaneto also demolished both a Japanese and Asian record of 2:20.72 at the Japan University Championships in Kumamoto.[2] Kaneto is a physical education graduate at Tokai University in Hiroshima.

Rie made her international swimming debut at the 2007 Summer Universiade in Bangkok, Thailand, quickly claiming a silver medal in the 200 m breaststroke by less than 0.04 of a second behind South Korea's Jung Seul-ki in 2:25.63. Rie's best effort at these Games vaulted her up to twelfth in the world rankings.[3] [4]

Rie earned her first selection to the Japanese team to compete in the women's 200 m breaststroke at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. Leading up to the Games, she placed second behind Megumi Taneda at the Olympic trials in Tokyo with a FINA A-standard entry time of 2:26.28.[5] Kaneto touched out Taneda to take the seventh spot in the final by nine hundredths of a second (0.09), in an outstanding time of 2:25.14.[6] [7]

At the 2009 Summer Universiade in Belgrade, Serbia, Rie set an Asian and Japanese mark of 2:22.32 to claim the 200 m breaststroke title, just a single hundredth margin off her record from the national championships (2:22.33).[8]

In 2010, Rie surprisingly missed out the podium in the 200 m breaststroke at the Asian Games in Guangzhou, China, when she placed fourth behind two Chinese swimmers and new champion Jeong Da-rae of South Korea in 2:25.63.[9]

In March 2018 Rie retired from competitive swimming.[10]

Notes and References

  1. Rie Kaneto . 4 December 2012 . https://web.archive.org/web/20200417170030/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ka/rie-kaneto-1.html . dead . 17 April 2020.
  2. News: Mochizuki . Hideki . Japan University Championships: Rie Kaneto Smashes Asian Record in 200 Breast . Swimming World Magazine . 6 September 2009 . 4 December 2012 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20121116092416/http://www.swimmingworldmagazine.com/lane9/news/22156.asp . 16 November 2012.
  3. News: World University Games: Exciting Finishes Highlight Third Night of Swimming . . 11 August 2007 . 7 April 2013 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20101231123135/http://www.swimmingworldmagazine.com/lane9/news/15427.asp . 31 December 2010.
  4. News: Canadians make splash at Bangkok Universiade . The Ottawa Citizen . . 12 August 2007 . 7 April 2013 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20150924053823/http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/sports/story.html?id=8d64f328-8fd8-44b8-8c1d-73de987c9109&k=70472 . 24 September 2015.
  5. News: Mochizuki . Hideki . Japanese Olympic Trials: Masayuki Kishida Sets National Record . . 20 April 2008 . 4 December 2012 . dead . https://archive.today/20130203063445/http://www.swimmingworldmagazine.com/lane9/news/17892.asp . 3 February 2013.
  6. Web site: Women's 200m Breaststroke Final . . NBC Olympics . 4 December 2012 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120821062048/http://www.2008.nbcolympics.com/swimming/resultsandschedules/rsc=SWW032100/index.html . 21 August 2012.
  7. 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.
  8. News: World University Games, Swimming: Jason Dunford Sets African Record, Rie Kaneto Claims Asian Mark, Incredible 50 Breast Semis . Swimming World Magazine . 9 July 2009 . 7 April 2013 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120307222444/http://www.swimmingworldmagazine.com/lane9/news/21636.asp . 7 March 2012.
  9. News: Asian Games: Tae Hwan Park Earns Third Gold, Zhao Jing Still Posting Fast Times . Swimming World Magazine . 17 November 2010 . 7 April 2013 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20131228201526/http://www.swimmingworldmagazine.com/lane9/news/25706.asp . 28 December 2013.
  10. Web site: 2018-03-07 . 200 Breast Olympic Champion Rie Kaneto Announces Retirement . 2020-09-23 . SwimSwam . en-US.

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