![]() ![]() While competing in the 2014 (Barcelona) and 2017 (Budapest) FINA Masters World Championships, Matsuda brought home six gold medals and one silver. The article noted that she had been a regular on the list (as a winner or runner-up) since 2005, missing out just once. In an April 2013 feature, Swimming World Magazine named the Tokyo native one of the Top 12 World Masters Swimmers of the Year for 2012. In world rankings since 2004, she has a total of 176- number 1, 55- number 2 and 17- number 3 total world rankings in the I.M., freestyle, butterfly, backstroke and breaststroke. She has set 35 long course and 45 short course FINA Masters World Records in the I.M., freestyle, butterfly and breaststroke. Since 2004, Matsuda has been in the Top Ten every one of the 14 years she has competed. This time, however, it was as a Masters swimmer. Matsuda returned to competitive swimming in 2003 because she realized how much she loved and missed it. ![]() But after not getting elected for Japan’s 1996 Olympic team, she retired at the age of 19. She joined the national team in 1992 and at the 1993 FINA Short Course World Championships, Matsuda took silver in the 200m Breast and also placed 4th in the 200m IM. In the early ‘90s, Hitomi Matsuda was known as one the top young stars in Japan’s swimming program. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. Archives
January 2023
Categories |