Yuta Suenaga

Yuta Suenaga
Personal information
Full name Yuta Suenaga
National team  Japan
Born (1985-04-07) 7 April 1985
Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan
Height 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)
Weight 72 kg (159 lb)
Sport
Sport Swimming
Strokes Breaststroke
Club Team Arena[1]
Coach Toshiaki Kurosawa[1]

Yuta Suenaga (末永雄太 Suenaga Yuta, born April 7, 1985) is a Japanese swimmer, who specialized in breaststroke events.[1][2] He attained a top eight finish in the 100 m breaststroke at the 2007 Summer Universiade in Bangkok, Thailand, and had been selected to represent Japan at the 2008 Summer Olympics.[3] Suenaga is an economics graduate at Hosei University in Tokyo.

Suenaga competed in a breaststroke double at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. Leading up to the Games, he cleared FINA A-standard entry times of 1:00.72 (100 m breaststroke) and 2:10.17 (200 m breaststroke) at the Olympic Trials in Tokyo.[4][5][6] In the 100 m breaststroke, Suenaga posted a thirteenth fastest time of 1:00.67 on the first day of preliminaries to secure his spot for the semifinals.[7][8] Followed by the next morning's session, Suenaga failed to qualify for the final, as he finished his semifinal run by matching his time and placement from the heats.[9] Four days later, 200 m breaststroke, Suenaga missed the semifinals by 0.11 of a second, as he shared his seventeenth-place tie with Norway's Alexander Dale Oen in 2:11.30.[10]

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