Ryosuke Irie

Ryosuke Irie
Personal information
Full name Ryosuke Irie
Nationality  Japan
Born January 24, 1990 (1990-01-24) (age 22)
Tennoji-ku, Osaka, Osaka Prefecture
Height 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)
Weight 64 kg (140 lb)
Sport
Sport Swimming
Stroke(s) backstroke
Club Itoman Sqimming School
College team Kinki University

Ryosuke Irie (入江 陵介 Irie Ryōsuke?, born January 24, 1990 in Tennoji-ku, Osaka, Osaka) is a Japanese backstroke swimmer. He is a Kinki University student in Osaka.

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History

He was born in Osaka prefecture and started his actual swimming carrier in his junior high school years. In 2005 he won the national high school championships in 200 meter backstroke when he was a first year grade student. He made new high school student record in Japanese national championships in April 2006. He narrowly missed the entry for FINA World Aquatics Championships of that year. He won a gold medal with the time of 1:58.85 in 200 m backstroke at the 2006 Asian Games in Doha, Qatar.

In August 2007, he attended his first world swimming competition, International Swim Meet 2007 held in Chiba, Japan. On August 22, he beat the previous high school record in 100 m backstroke with the time of 54.07 s. The next day, he beat another high school record in 200 m backstroke with the time of 1:57.03.

World record controversy

He swam the 200 meter backstroke in a Japanese record time of 1:52.86 on May 10 in a Japan-Australia swimming contest held in Canberra. Even though the time was lower than the world record, his time was rejected by FINA,[1] swimming's international governing body, because he didn't wear an approved suit. Japan's swimming federation did approve the record, however, along with several others in which Japanese swimmers wore unapproved suits that were later ruled to yield an unfair advantage. Irie's time would have sliced 1.08 seconds off the 200 meter record set by American Ryan Lochte when he won gold at the Beijing Olympics. The high-tech swimsuit, which is made by Japanese sport wear manufacture Descente (who owns Arena), was not approved by FINA in a meeting held on May 20, 2009, and was called for modifications along with other 136 models.[2]

Personal bests and records

In long course

In short course

References

  1. ^ http://www.fina.org/project/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2487&Itemid=108
  2. ^ http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hhKwENfdRAc5qPphLSvC3kCLhseA
  3. ^ "Swimming: Japan national swimming championships results". IOC. 2009-04-18. http://www.olympic.org/uk/news/sports_news/full_story_uk.asp?id=158990. Retrieved 2009-04-20.