is a Japanese
swimmer
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. She competed in the
women's 200 metre butterfly event at the
2016 Summer Olympics
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In April 2017, Hasegawa broke the world junior record in the 200 butterfly with a 2:02.96 at Japanese Nationals. She qualified to represent Japan at the
2020 Summer Olympics
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Tokyo was selected as the host city during the ...
.
When she was 14 years old, Hasegawa competed at the
in
Hawaii
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,
United States
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, where she won the gold medal in the 100 metre butterfly with a time of 58.91 seconds, which was 0.23 seconds slower than the Championships record of 58.68 seconds set in
2012
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by
Noemie Thomas of
Canada
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, as well as a silver medal in the 4×100 metre medley relay with a final relay time of 4:04.11.
[Hy-Tek (31 August 2014)]
"Meet Results: 2014 Jr Pan Pacific Swimming Championships"
''swmeets.com''. Retrieved 31 October 2022.
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2000 births
Living people
Japanese female freestyle swimmers
Olympic swimmers for Japan
Swimmers at the 2016 Summer Olympics
Place of birth missing (living people)
Asian Games medalists in swimming
Asian Games bronze medalists for Japan
Swimmers at the 2018 Asian Games
Medalists at the 2018 Asian Games
Japanese female butterfly swimmers
Swimmers at the 2020 Summer Olympics
21st-century Japanese women
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