With the six-day Japan Swim having now concluded the Japanese Swimming Federation (JASF) has released both the World Championships and Asian Games rosters.
You can review the 2023 World Championships roster here.
Many of the same names also appear on the Asian Games roster, with 36 swimmers in all set to represent Japan in Hangzhou, China this September. A glaring absence is Olympic champion Yui Ohashi, who is set to compete in Fukuoka, but does not appear on the roster below.
At the last edition of the Asian Games in 2018, Rikako Ikee made history by becoming the first-ever female MVP of the entire competition across all sports. Now at 22 and on the other side of beating leukemia, the sprint ace will once again take on her rivals from China, Singapore and beyond.
Japan as a whole topped the overalls swimming medal table, reaping 52 pieces of hardware including 19 golds. China was next with 50 medals in all, tying Japan’s 19 golds, while Singapore was a distant 3rd with 6 medals in all.
Men
Takeharu Hidekazu
Yuya Hinomoto
Tomoru Honda
Takeshi Kawamoto
Ikki Imoto
Ryosuke Irie
Hidenari Mano (relay)
Katsuhiro Matsumoto
Naoki Mizunuma
Teppei Morimoto
Katsumi Nakamura (relay)
So Ogata
Shoma Sato
Daiya Seto
Shinri Shioura
Kaito Tabuchi
Shogo Takeda
Tomonobu Gomi (relay)
Ippei Watanabe
Daiki Yanagawa
Women
Reona Aoki
Rikako Ikee
Nagisa Ikemoto (relay)
Chihiro Igarashi (relay)
Runa Imai
Waka Kobori
Hiroko Makino
Airi Mitsui
Yukimi Moriyama
Miyu Namba
Mio Narita
Rio Shirai
Ai Soma
Miki Takahashi
Ageha Tanigawa
Probably the most stacked squad we’ve built for a while