is a Japanese swimmer who won a bronze medal in the 200 m breaststroke at the 2005 World Aquatics Championships. He finished 11th in the same event at the 2004 Summer Olympics.

Biography

Imamura was named after the main character of the sports manga ''

Ganbare Genki is a Japanese sports manga by Yū Koyama about Genki Horiguchi, a boy who is raised by a single father, and who wants to be a boxer like him. It was adapted as an anime television series by Toei Animation. The manga received the Shogakukan Ma ...

''. At first, he competed in

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, and only in high school started seriously training in swimming. In 2004, at the national championships he finished second after

Kosuke Kitajima is a Japanese retired breaststroke swimmer. He won gold medals at the men's 100 m and 200 m breaststroke events at the 2004 Summer Olympics, and the 2008 Summer Olympics – becoming the first and only swimmer to sweep the breaststroke even ...

in the 200 m breaststroke. He thus qualified for the 2004 Olympics, but did not reach the finals. His peak came in 2005 when he won the national title in 200 m breaststroke, beating Kitajima, and finished second in the 100 m breaststroke. He then won a bronze medal at the World Championships, a bronze medal at the

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, and three medals at the

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References

1982 births Living people People from Tomisato Swimmers at the 2004 Summer Olympics Tokai University alumni Olympic swimmers for Japan Japanese male breaststroke swimmers World Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming Universiade medalists in swimming Universiade bronze medalists for Japan Medalists at the 2005 Summer Universiade 21st-century Japanese people {{Japan-swimming-bio-stub