Tomoru Honda

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Tomoru Honda
Personal information
NationalityJapanese
Born (2001-12-31) 31 December 2001 (age 22)[1]
Yokohama, Japan
Height1.72 m (5 ft 8 in)
Sport
CountryJapan
SportSwimming
StrokesButterfly
Medal record
Men's swimming
Representing  Japan
Olympic Games
Silver medal – second place 2020 Tokyo 200 m butterfly
World Championships (LC)
Gold medal – first place 2024 Doha 200 m butterfly
Bronze medal – third place 2022 Budapest 200 m butterfly
Bronze medal – third place 2023 Fukuoka 200 m butterfly
Asian Games
Gold medal – first place 2022 Hangzhou 400 m medley
Gold medal – first place 2022 Hangzhou 200 m butterfly
Bronze medal – third place 2022 Hangzhou 4x200 m freestyle
World Junior Championships
Silver medal – second place 2019 Budapest 200 m butterfly
Junior Pan Pacific Championships
Silver medal – second place 2018 Suva 4×100 m medley
Bronze medal – third place 2018 Suva 200 m butterfly

Tomoru Honda (Japanese: 本多 灯, Hepburn: Honda Tomoru, born 31 December 2001) is a Japanese competitive swimmer. He is the world record holder in the short course 200 metre butterfly.[2] He won a silver medal at the 2020 Summer Olympics in the men's 200 metre butterfly event.[3]

Career[edit]

2018–2019[edit]

In August 2018, when Honda was 16 years old, he won the bronze medal in the 200 metre butterfly with a time of 1:58.70 and a silver medal in the 4×100 metre medley relay with a final time of 3:41.95 at the 2018 Junior Pan Pacific Swimming Championships in Suva, Fiji.[4] The following year, at the 2019 FINA World Junior Swimming Championships held in August at Danube Arena in Budapest, Hungary, he won the silver medal in the 200 metre butterfly with a final mark of 1:55.31, sharing the podium with gold medalist Luca Urlando of the United States and bronze medalist Federico Burdisso of Italy.[5]

2021–2022[edit]

Leading up to the 2020 Olympic Games, in April 2021 in Tokyo, Honda was one of two male swimmers to make the Japan Olympic Team in the 200 metre butterfly.[6] At the 2020 Summer Olympics, held in the summer of 2021 in Tokyo, he finished second in the final of the 200 metre butterfly to win the silver medal with a time of 1:53.73, which was 2.48 seconds behind gold medalist Kristóf Milák of Hungary and 0.72 seconds ahead of bronze medalist Federico Burdisso.[3][7] The following summer, at the 2022 World Aquatics Championships in Budapest, Hungary, he won the bronze medal in the 200 metre butterfly, this time finishing behind gold medalist Kristóf Milák and silver medalist Léon Marchand of France with a time of 1:53.61.[8][9] Three days earlier in the Championships, he finished in a time of 4:12.20 in the final of the 400 metre individual medley to place seventh.[10] On 22 October 2022, he won the gold medal in the short course 200 metre butterfly at the 64th edition of Japan's National Short Course Championships, held in Tokyo, with a world record time of 1:46.85.[2][11][12]

2023[edit]

At the Japan Swim 2023, held in April in Tokyo, Honda won the silver medal in the 400 metre individual medley with a personal best time of 4:10.37.[13] Two days later, on the third morning, he ranked first in the preliminaries of the 200 metre butterfly with a 1:54.43 and qualified for the final.[14] In the evening, he won the gold medal with a 2023 World Aquatics Championships and 2022 Asian Games qualifying and personal best time of 1:53.34.[15][16] The fifth morning, he finished in a time of 52.02 seconds in the preliminaries of the 100 metre butterfly, ranking fourth overall and qualifying for the final.[17] He equalled his time of 52.02 seconds in the final, placing fifth.[18]

International championships[edit]

Meet 100 fly 200 fly 200 medley 400 medley 4×100 free 4×100 medley 4×100 mixed free 4×100 mixed medley
Junior level
PACJ 2018 5th 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 23rd 2nd (b) 2nd place, silver medalist(s) — —
WJC 2019 11th 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 5th 12th 11th 12th 5th
Senior level
OG 2020 2nd place, silver medalist(s) —
WC 2022 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 7th —

Personal best times[edit]

Long course metres (50 m pool)[edit]

Event Time Meet Location Date Ref
100 m butterfly 51.69 2022 Japan International Team Trials Tokyo 5 March 2022 [1]
200 m butterfly 1:53.34 2023 Japan Swim Tokyo 6 April 2023 [15]
400 m individual medley 4:10.37 2023 Japan Swim Tokyo 4 April 2023 [13]

Short course metres (25 m pool)[edit]

Event Time Meet Location Date Notes Ref
100 m butterfly 51.95 2020 Japan Short Course Championships Japan 18 October 2020 [1]
200 m butterfly 1:46.85 2022 Japan Short Course Championships Tokyo 22 October 2022 WR [2][11][12]
200 m individual medley 1:51.97 2022 Japan Short Course Championships Tokyo 23 October 2022 [1]

World records[edit]

Short course metres (25 m pool)[edit]

No. Event Time Meet Location Date Age Status Ref
1 200 m butterfly 1:46.85 64th Japan Short Course Championships Tokyo 22 October 2022 20 Current [2][11][12]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b c d "Tomoru Honda". FINA. Retrieved 1 January 2023.
  2. ^ a b c d EFE (22 October 2022). "Honda smashes Men's 200m butterfly world record". Diario AS. Retrieved 31 December 2022.
  3. ^ a b "Swimming - HONDA Tomoru". Tokyo 2020 Olympics. Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Archived from the original on 28 July 2021. Retrieved 28 July 2021.
  4. ^ "2018 Junior Pan Pacific Swimming Championships". Fiji Swimming. 23 August 2018. Retrieved 13 November 2022.
  5. ^ FINA (25 August 2019). "7th FINA World Junior Swimming Championships 2019 Budapest (HUN): Men's 200m Butterfly Final Results". Omega Timing. Retrieved 1 January 2023.
  6. ^ Agence France-Presse (6 April 2021). "'Rowdy' Honda bests Seto at Japan's Olympic swim trials". The Times of India. Retrieved 1 January 2023.
  7. ^ "Olympics:Japan's Tomoru Honda motors to shock silver in men's 200 butterfly". Kyodo News. 28 July 2021. Retrieved 31 December 2022.
  8. ^ FINA (21 June 2022). "19th FINA World Championships Budapest (HUN): Men's 200m Butterfly Final Results". Omega Timing. Retrieved 18 June 2022.
  9. ^ "China bags two gold medals on Day 4 of FINA Worlds". China Internet Information Center. 22 June 2022. Retrieved 1 January 2023.
  10. ^ FINA (18 June 2022). "19th FINA World Championships Budapest (HUN): Men's 400m Individual Medley Final Results". Omega Timing. Retrieved 1 January 2023.
  11. ^ a b c Pérez, Marta (22 October 2022). "Tomoru Honda pulveriza el récord del mundo de 200 mariposa en piscina corta" (in Spanish). Mundo Deportivo. Retrieved 1 January 2023.
  12. ^ a b c "El japonés Honda fija nuevo récord del mundo de 200 mariposa en piscina corta" (in Spanish). Infobae. 22 October 2022. Retrieved 31 December 2022.
  13. ^ a b "Japan Swim 2023: Results Summary Men 400m Individual Medley Final". Seiko. 4 April 2023. Retrieved 4 April 2023.
  14. ^ "Japan Swim 2023: Results Summary Men 200m Butterfly Heats". Seiko. 6 April 2023. Retrieved 6 April 2023.
  15. ^ a b "Japan Swim 2023: Results Summary Men 200m Butterfly Final". Seiko. 6 April 2023. Retrieved 6 April 2023.
  16. ^ Shintaro, Kano (6 April 2023). "Japan Swim 2023: All results and medals from Japanese swimming national championships – complete list". Olympics.com. Retrieved 6 April 2023.
  17. ^ "Japan Swim 2023: Results Summary Men 100m Butterfly Heats". Seiko. 8 April 2023. Retrieved 8 April 2023.
  18. ^ "Japan Swim 2023: Results Summary Men 100m Butterfly Final". Seiko. 8 April 2023. Retrieved 8 April 2023.

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Records
Preceded by Men's 200 metre butterfly
world record holder (short course)
22 October 2022 – present 		Succeeded by
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