is a Japanese professional

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who specializes in

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breaststroke Breaststroke is a swimming style in which the swimmer is on their chest and the torso does not rotate. It is the most popular recreational style due to the swimmer's head being out of the water a large portion of the time, and that it can be s ...

, and freestyle events. He won the gold medal in the 400-metre individual medley at the

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, and

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world short course championships, 2022 as well as at the

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, and

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world long course championships. Seto holds the

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in the

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400-metre individual medley.

Swimming career

Seto took up swimming at the age of five.Binner, Andrew (27 August 2020)
"How Seto Daiya Came Out From The Shadows To Become Japan's Champion In The Water"
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''. Retrieved 12 October 2021. He narrowly missed the 2012 Japan Olympic Team when he finished third in both the 200-metre and 400-metre individual medley events at the national selection meet. He improved his times at the 2012 FINA Swimming World Cup, where he competed at all stops of the World Cup circuit and achieved a fourth-place finish across all stops. He concluded the year's short course season at the 2012 World Short Course Championships. Here Seto won the first international medals of his career. He first competed in the 400-metre individual medley, where he won his first world title in a new Asian record of 3:59.12, over a second and a half faster than second-place finisher

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. He then competed in the 200-metre individual medley, where he was able to sprint past Cseh for the silver medal in a time of 1:52.80.

2013 World Championships

Seto was still coming into the

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, relatively unknown. He swam both individual medley events. In the 200-metre, his first event, he swam a personal best in the semifinals with a time of 1:58.03, and then finished a touch slower in the final the next night to finish seventh overall. In his best event of the Championships, the 400-metre individual medley, Seto qualified first for the final and then won his first long course world title by finishing first in a time of 4:08.69, about half a second ahead of second-place finisher

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of the

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. Seto became the second-fastest Asian performer in the event, behind Hagino, with his time.

2014 Pan Pacific Championships

During the

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Seto won a gold medal.

2015 World Championships

Seto successfully defended his world title in the 400-metre individual medley on the last day of the

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. Earlier in the meet, he did not live up to the expectations of others in the 200-metre butterfly and 200-metre individual medley, events in which he was ranked second in the world before leading up to the Championships.

2016 Summer Olympics

Seto earned a bronze medal in the 400-metre individual medley on 6 August, with a time of 4:09.71 in the final of the event at the

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. He also finished fifth in the 200-metre butterfly.

2018 Pan Pacific Championships

In 2018 he won a gold medal at the

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2018 World Short Course Championships

At the 2018 World Swimming Championships conducted in short course metres in

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in December, Seto won the gold medal in the 200-metre butterfly with a time of 1:48.24 that set a new world record in the event.

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(11 December 2018)
"14th FINA World Swimming Championships (25m) Hangzhou (CHN): Men's 200m Butterfly Final Results"
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''. Retrieved 12 October 2021.Race, Retta (11 December 2018)
"Watch The Seto Vs. Le Clos Battle That Produced A 200 Fly World Record"
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''. Retrieved 12 October 2021.Ross, Andy (11 December 2018)
"Daiya Seto Takes Down Chad Le Clos and his World Record in the 200 Fly at Short Course World Championships"
''

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''. Retrieved 12 October 2021. Seto was named "Male Asian Swimmer of the Year" by ''

'' for the 2018 year.

2019 International Swimming League

In the autumn of 2019, he was a member of the inaugural season of the

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, swimming for the

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. His club won the team title in

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, United States, in December. At the final match in Las Vegas, Seto set a new world record in the 400-metre individual medley with a time of 3:54.81, breaking the former record set by

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of the United States.Hart, Torrey (20 December 2019)
"Daiya Seto Takes Down 9-Year-Old 400 IM (SCM) World Record In ISL Debut"
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''. Retrieved 12 October 2021.Lord, Craig (20 December 2019)
"Daiya Seto Downs Ryan Lochte's 2010 World Record In 3:54 At ISL Final"
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''. Retrieved 12 October 2021. Also in Las Vegas, he won the 200-metre butterfly over teammate

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, and the 200-metre individual medley.

2020 FINA Champions Swim Series

At the

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stop of the 2020 FINA Champions Swim Series in January, Seto set a new Asian record and Japan national record in the long course 200-metre butterfly with a time of 1:52.53, which put him only behind the world record holder in the event,

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, and a former world record holder in the event,

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of the

, in terms of global rankings up to that point in time.

(18 January 2020)
"FINA Champions Swim Series 2020 Beijing (CHN): Men's 200m Butterfly Final Results"
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''. Retrieved 12 October 2021.Ferrari Kehoe, Lydia (18 January 2020)
"Daiya Seto Sets New Asian Record In 200 Butterfly"
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''. Retrieved 12 October 2021."Daiya Seto breaks 11-year-old Japan 200-meter butterfly record"
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''. 18 January 2020. Retrieved 12 October 2021.

2020 Summer Olympics

He competed in his second

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at the

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. He finished in fourth place in the 200-metre individual medley final, and did not qualify for 400-metre individual medley final.Evans, Simon (24 July 2021)
"Swimming-Japan gold medal hope Seto misses 400 medley final"
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''. Retrieved 12 October 2021.Goodman, Eric (24 July 2021)
"Seto Daiya, world champion in the 400m IM, misses final in shocking upset"
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''. Retrieved 12 October 2021.

2021 FINA Swimming World Cup

At the

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stop in

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, Seto won the highest-scoring overall male award and prize money for the stop with his gold medal wins in the 200-metre breaststroke and 400-metre individual medley on the third and final day of competition in Doha contributing to his overall high score."Seto and Toussaint final winners in Doha"
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''. 23 October 2021. Retrieved 23 October 2021. The same day Seto was announced overall male winner for the Doha stop, ''

'' revealed he had officially become a

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swimmer.Race, Retta (23 October 2021)
"Daiya Seto To Train In The United States, Officially Turns Pro"
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''. Retrieved 23 October 2021.

Stop 4: Kazan

On the first day of competition, 28 October, at the fourth and final stop of the World Cup circuit, held in the

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in Kazan, Russia, Seto set new Asian and Japanese records in the 100-metre individual medley with a time 51.29 seconds.

(28 October 2021)
"FINA Swimming World Cup 2021 Kazan (RUS): Men's 100m Individual Medley Final Results"
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''. Retrieved 28 October 2021.Race, Retta (28 October 2021)
"Daiya Seto Slices 0.01 Off Hagino's Japanese, Asian 100 IM Record"
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''. Retrieved 28 October 2021. His swim in the final improved upon his time of 51.64 seconds from the morning prelims heats.

(28 October 2021)
"FINA Swimming World Cup 2021 Kazan (RUS): Men's 100m Individual Medley Heats Results Summary"
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''. Retrieved 28 October 2021. The next day, Seto swam a 1:54.03 in the prelims heats of the 200-metre individual medley, ranking first by over one full second ahead of the next fastest competitor for the heats, Matthew Sates of

who swam a 1:55.37.

(29 October 2021)
"FINA Swimming World Cup 2021 Kazan (RUS): Men's 200m Individual Medley Heats Results Summary"
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''. Retrieved 29 October 2021. In the final, Seto finished first and won the gold medal with a World Cup record and personal best time of 1:50.66.

(29 October 2021)
"FINA Swimming World Cup 2021 Kazan (RUS): Men's 200m Individual Medley Final Results"
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''. Retrieved 29 October 2021.Sutherland, James (29 October 2021)
"2021 FINA World Cup – Kazan: Day 2 Finals Live Recap"
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''. Retrieved 29 October 2021. Seto snuck into the final of the 200-metre breaststroke on the last day of competition of the 2021 World Cup circuit, ranking fifth overall with a time of 2:05.83 in the prelims heats.

(30 October 2021)
"FINA Swimming World Cup 2021 Kazan (RUS): Men's 200m Breaststroke Heats Results Summary"
''

''. Retrieved 30 October 2021. In the evening finals session, he started off by winning the gold medal in the 400-metre individual medley with a time of 3:57.85.

(30 October 2021)
"FINA Swimming World Cup 2021 Kazan (RUS): Men's 400m Individual Medley Fastest Heats Results Summary"
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''. Retrieved 30 October 2021.Race, Retta (30 October 2021)
"2021 FINA World Cup Kazan: Day 3 Finals Live Recap"
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''. Retrieved 30 October 2021. For the 200-metre breaststroke final, Seto won the gold medal with a time of 2:01.49.

(30 October 2021)
"FINA Swimming World Cup 2021 Kazan (RUS): Men's 200m Breaststroke Final Results"
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''. Retrieved 30 October 2021. His swims for the Kazan stop earned him 58.9 points, which was the highest total score by any competitor for a single stop of the World Cup circuit with the next highest scoring competitors being female swimmers

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, who earned 58.3 points at two stops, and

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of the

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, who earned 58.3 points at one stop."FINA Swimming World Cup: Men Individual Ranking 2021 – Rankings"
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''. 30 October 2021. Retrieved 30 October 2021. He also ranked ninth for total number of medals won by a male competitor across the circuit, winning only gold medals, that is all eight of his medals were gold medals.Takata, Daniel (1 November 2021)
"The Swimmers With The Most Medals At The 2021 FINA World Cup"
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''. Retrieved 1 November 2021. The moment when Seto set a new World Cup record in the 200-metre individual medley was ranked as the number seven moment from the 2021 Swimming World Cup by

."Swimming World Cup: Top 10 Moments"
''

''. 8 November 2021. Retrieved 8 November 2021.

2021 World Short Course Championships

In December 2021, Seto was announced as one of two swimmers from Japan to represent the country in competition at the 2021 World Short Course Championships in

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.Race, Retta (7 December 2021)
"Daiya Seto & Coley Stickels Bound For Short Course World Championships"
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''. Retrieved 7 December 2021. Starting his competition with the 200-metre individual medley on day one, Seto qualified for the final ranking first with a time of 1:52.38.

(16 December 2021)
"15th FINA World Swimming Championships 2021 Abu Dhabi (UAE): Men's 200m Individual Medley Heats Results Summary"
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''. Retrieved 16 December 2021.Penland, Spencer (15 December 2021)
"2021 SC World Championships: Day 1 Heats Live Recap"
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''. Retrieved 16 December 2021. In the evening final, Seto won the gold medal with a time of 1:51.15, finishing two-tenths of a second ahead of silver medalist

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of the

(16 December 2021)
"15th FINA World Swimming Championships 2021 Abu Dhabi (UAE): Men's 200m Individual Medley Final Results"
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''. Retrieved 16 December 2021.Hamann, Michael (16 December 2021)
"2021 Short Course World Championships: Day 1 Finals Live Recap"
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''. Retrieved 16 December 2021. The third day of competition, Seto ranked first in the prelims heats of the 100 metre individual medley, qualifying for the semifinals with his time of 51.52 seconds.

(18 December 2021)
"15th FINA World Swimming Championships 2021 Abu Dhabi (UAE): Men's 100m Individual Medley Heats Results Summary"
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''. Retrieved 18 December 2021. In the semifinals, Seto qualified for the final ranking third behind

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and Tomoe Hvas of

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with a time of 51.52 seconds.

(18 December 2021)
"15th FINA World Swimming Championships 2021 Abu Dhabi (UAE): Men's 100m Individual Medley Semifinals Results Summary"
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''. Retrieved 18 December 2021. Seto placed fourth in the final of the 100 metre individual medley, finishing six-hundredths of a second behind bronze medalist

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with a time of 51.46 seconds.

(19 December 2021)
"15th FINA World Swimming Championships 2021 Abu Dhabi (UAE): Men's 100m Individual Medley Final Results"
''

''. Retrieved 19 December 2021. Day five of competition, Seto ranked first in the prelims heats of the 400 metre individual medley, qualifying for the final over one second faster than second-ranked

with a time of 4:00.84.

(20 December 2021)
"15th FINA World Swimming Championships 2021 Abu Dhabi (UAE): Men's 400m Individual Medley Heats Results Summary"
''

''. Retrieved 20 December 2021. In the final in the evening, Seto won the gold medal with a time of 3:56.26.

(20 December 2021)
"15th FINA World Swimming Championships 2021 Abu Dhabi (UAE): Men's 400m Individual Medley Final Results"
''

''. Retrieved 20 December 2021.

Career best times

Long course metres (50 m pool)

Short course metres (25 m pool)

World records

Short course metres

Continental and national records

Long course metres

Short course metres

Awards and honours

Top 10 Moments: 2021 Swimming World Cup (#7) * ''

'' Top 100 (Men's): 2021 (#4),Anderson, Jared (5 February 2021)
"SwimSwam's Top 100 For 2021: Men's #10 – #1"
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''. Retrieved 12 October 2021. 2022 (#6)Sutherland, James (24 January 2022)
"SwimSwam's Top 100 For 2022: Men's #10-1"
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''. Retrieved 24 January 2022. * ''

'' Swammy Award, Asian Swimmer of the Year (male): 2018,Race, Retta (21 December 2018)
"2018 Swammy Awards: Daiya Seto, Male Asian Swimmer Of The Year"
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''. Retrieved 12 October 2021. 2019Neidigh, Lauren (25 December 2019)
"2019 Swammy Awards: Asian Male Swimmer Of The Year Daiya Seto"
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''. Retrieved 12 October 2021.

Personal life

Daiya Seto is married to Yuka Mabuchi and has a daughter named Yuwa. In September 2020, it was reported by ''

'', ''

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'', and ''

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'' that Seto was involved in an extramarital affair.Bonesteel, Matt (14 October 2020)
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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Seto, Daiya 1994 births Living people Japanese male breaststroke swimmers Japanese male butterfly swimmers Japanese male freestyle swimmers Japanese male medley swimmers Medalists at the FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) Asian Games medalists in swimming Swimmers at the 2014 Asian Games Swimmers at the 2018 Asian Games World Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming Asian Games gold medalists for Japan Sportspeople from Saitama Prefecture Medalists at the 2016 Summer Olympics Olympic bronze medalists for Japan Olympic swimmers of Japan Olympic bronze medalists in swimming Swimmers at the 2016 Summer Olympics Swimmers at the 2020 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 2014 Asian Games Medalists at the 2018 Asian Games Universiade medalists in swimming Asian Games bronze medalists for Japan Universiade gold medalists for Japan Universiade silver medalists for Japan World record holders in swimming Medalists at the 2017 Summer Universiade 21st-century Japanese people

Swimming career

2013 World Championships

2014 Pan Pacific Championships

2015 World Championships

2016 Summer Olympics

2018 Pan Pacific Championships

2018 World Short Course Championships

2019 International Swimming League

2020 FINA Champions Swim Series

2020 Summer Olympics

2021 FINA Swimming World Cup

Stop 4: Kazan

2021 World Short Course Championships

Career best times

Long course metres (50 m pool)

Short course metres (25 m pool)

World records

Short course metres

Continental and national records

Long course metres

Short course metres

Awards and honours

Personal life

See also

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