is a Japanese swimmer who specializes in freestyle. He is a silver medalist at the

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Career

He competed in the men's 200 metre freestyle event at the

2017 World Aquatics Championships The 17th FINA World Championships ( hu, 2017-es úszó-világbajnokság) were held in Budapest, Hungary from 14 to 30 July 2017.

. At the

2019 World Aquatics Championships The 2019 World Aquatics Championships were the 18th FINA World Aquatics Championships, held in Gwangju, South Korea from 12 to 28 July 2019. The city had previously hosted the 2015 Summer Universiade aquatics events in the same venues.

held in Gwangju,

South Korea South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (ROK), is a country in East Asia, constituting the southern part of the Korean Peninsula and sharing a land border with North Korea. Its western border is formed by the Yellow Sea, while its eas ...

, Katsuhiro Matsumoto came third in the 200 m freestyle, but the first-placed finisher

Danas Rapšys Danas Rapšys (; born 21 May 1995) is a Lithuanian swimmer. He is a two-time Olympian, a multiple-time Lithuanian record holder in the men's backstroke, freestyle and butterfly, and a double swimming champion at the 2017 Summer Universiade in T ...

was disqualified for a false start, so Matsumoto was awarded a silver medal. He qualified to represent Japan at the

2020 Summer Olympics The , officially the and also known as , was an international multi-sport event held from 23 July to 8 August 2021 in Tokyo, Japan, with some preliminary events that began on 21 July. Tokyo was selected as the host city during the 1 ...

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* 1997 births Living people Place of birth missing (living people) Universiade medalists in swimming Asian Games medalists in swimming Asian Games gold medalists for Japan Asian Games silver medalists for Japan Swimmers at the 2018 Asian Games Medalists at the 2018 Asian Games Universiade gold medalists for Japan Universiade bronze medalists for Japan World Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming Medalists at the 2015 Summer Universiade Medalists at the 2017 Summer Universiade Japanese male freestyle swimmers Swimmers at the 2020 Summer Olympics Olympic swimmers of Japan 21st-century Japanese people {{Japan-swimming-bio-stub