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]

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Yuta Suenaga". Beijing 2008. Retrieved 21 April 2013.
  2. ↑ "Yuta Suenaga". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 4 December 2012.
  3. ↑ "World University Games: Exciting Finishes Highlight Third Night of Swimming". Swimming World Magazine. 11 August 2007. Retrieved 6 April 2013.
  4. ↑ Mochizuki, Hideki (16 April 2008). "Japanese Olympic Trials: Kosuke Kitajima Wins 100 Breast, Reiko Nakamura Breaks One-Minute in 100 Back". Swimming World Magazine. Retrieved 5 April 2013.
  5. ↑ "Japanese Olympic Trials: Kosuke Kitajima Just Off 200 Breast World Record". Swimming World Magazine. 19 April 2008. Retrieved 4 December 2012.
  6. ↑ "Kitajima punches ticket to Olympics". The Japan Times Online. 19 April 2008. Retrieved 4 December 2012.
  7. ↑ "Men's 100m Breaststroke Heat 9". Beijing 2008. NBC Olympics. Retrieved 4 December 2012.
  8. ↑ Lohn, John (9 August 2008). "Olympics, Swimming: Alexander Dale Oen Sets Olympic Record to Lead 100 Breast Prelims". Swimming World Magazine. Retrieved 6 April 2013.
  9. ↑ "Men's 100m Breaststroke Semifinal 2". Beijing 2008. NBC Olympics. Retrieved 4 December 2012.
  10. ↑ "Men's 200m Breaststroke Heat 7". Beijing 2008. NBC Olympics. Retrieved 4 December 2012.

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