IRIE Ryosuke

Date of Birth: 24 Jan 1990

Age: 31

Gender: Male

Height (m/ft): 1.78/5'10''

Place of birth: OSAKA

Birth Country:

Japan

Place of residence : TOKYO

Residence Country:

Japan

Events and Medals
Records
Schedule
Bio
General Interest
Milestones

Events and Medals

Discipline	Event	Rank	Medal
Swimming	Men's 100m Backstroke
	Men's 200m Backstroke	7
	Men's 4 x 100m Medley Relay JPN Japan	6

Schedule

Start Time	Location	Event	Status
	Tokyo Aquatics Centre	Men's 100m Backstroke - Heat 5	Finished
	Tokyo Aquatics Centre	Men's 100m Backstroke Semifinal 2	Finished
	Tokyo Aquatics Centre	Men's 200m Backstroke - Heat 2	Finished
	Tokyo Aquatics Centre	Men's 200m Backstroke Semifinal 1	Finished
	Tokyo Aquatics Centre	Men's 200m Backstroke Final	Finished
	Tokyo Aquatics Centre	Men's 4 x 100m Medley Relay - Heat 2	Finished
	Tokyo Aquatics Centre	Men's 4 x 100m Medley Relay Final	Finished

Biographical Information

Highlights

Olympic Games

Year	Location	100Back	200Back	4x100Medley M
2016	Rio de Janeiro, BRA	7th (53.42)	8th (1:56.36)	5th (3:31.97)
2012	London, GBR	3rd (52.97)	2nd (1:53.78)	2nd (3:31.26)
2008	Beijing, CHN	-	5th (1:55.72)	-

World Championships

Year	Location	50Back	100Back	200Back	4x100Medley M
2019	Gwangju, KOR	-	6th (53.22)	5th (1:56.52)	4th (3:30.35)
2017	Budapest, HUN	-	4th (53.03)	7th (1:56.35)	4th (3:30.19)
2015	Kazan, RUS	-	6th (53.10)	4th (1:54.81)	6th (3:31.10)
2013	Barcelona, ESP	H (DNS)	4th (53.29)	4th (1:55.07)	3rd (3:32.26)
2011	Shanghai, CHN	H (DNS)	3rd (52.98)	2nd (1:54.11)	4th (3:32.89)
2009	Rome, ITA	SF (24.79)	4th (52.73)	2nd (1:52.51)	7th

Asian Games

Year	Location	50Back	100Back	200Back	4x100Medley M	4x100Medley X
2018	Indonesia	2nd (24.88)	2nd (52.53)	2nd (1:55.11)	2nd (3:30.03)	2nd (3:41.21)

Pan Pacific Championships

Year	Location	100Back	200Back	4x100Medley M	4x100Medley X
2018	Tokyo, JPN	2nd (52.78)	2nd (1:55.12)	2nd (3:30.25)	2nd

Champions Swim Series overview - Three best ranks per season and event since 2019

Year	100Back	200Back	4x100Medley
2020	1 x 1st	1 x 1st	1 x 2nd
2019	1 x 2nd	1 x 2nd	-

Champions Swim Series - Ten best performances since 2019

Rank	Year	Event	Location	Result
1	2020	100m Backstroke	Beijing, CHN	52.97
1	2020	200m Backstroke	Beijing, CHN	1:55.55
2	2020	4 x 100m Medley Relay	Beijing, CHN	3:52.18
2	2019	100m Backstroke	Guangzhou, CHN	53.25
2	2019	200m Backstroke	Guangzhou, CHN	1:56.24

World Championships Short Course

Year	Location	100Back	200Back	4x50Medley M	4x100Medley
2018	Hangzhou, CHN	SF (50.45)	7th (1:50.88)	7th (1:32.83)	3rd (3:21.07)

Legend
Free - Freestyle, Back - Backstroke, Breast - Breaststroke, Fly - Butterfly, IndMed - Individual Medley, SF - Semifinal, H - Heats, DNS - Did Not Start, M - Men, W - Women, X - Mixed, DSQ - Disqualified, [Relay athlete without time] - Did not swim in final

Ryochan, Iriemon (excite.co.jp, 05 Sep 2018; TV Asahi, 05 Dec 2007)

Listening to music, going to concerts, karaoke. (hokto-kinoko.co.jp, 01 Apr 2021; style.nikkei.com, 11 Mar 2019; Instagram profile, 04 Sep 2018)

Occupation:

Law - Kindai University, Japan

Languages spoken:

English, Japanese

Itoman Toshin [Japan]

Norimasa Hirai [national], JPN; Ishimatsu Masataka [club], JPN

2006 for Japan, Pan Pacific Championships in Victoria, Canada (tobiuojapan.org, 24 Jun 2015)

In 2013 he suffered a hernia injury. (sportsnavi.yahoo.co.jp, 11 Apr 2014)

His training was disrupted ahead of the 2012 Olympic Games in London due to a shoulder injury. He went on to win one bronze and two silver medals at the Games. (SportsDeskOnline, 20 May 2021; sportiva.shueisha.co.jp, 10 Jun 2020)

He began swimming at age four in Osaka, Japan. (ar-services.jp, 08 May 2014)

He followed his older brother Shinpei into the sport, but initially did not like swimming. His mother promised if he still did not enjoy it after a year she would ask the coach if he could quit. However, she forgot to honour her promise. "I only had negative feelings toward swimming. I really hated it, and wasn't very good at it either. I am what I am today because my mother didn't ask my coach to let me quit." (ajw.asahi.com, 11 Jul 2012)

To win medals at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo, and to compete at the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris. (tbsradio.jp, 04 Oct 2019; yahoo.co.jp, 11 May 2019)

Winning silver in the men's 4x100m medley relay at the 2012 Olympic Games in London. (SportsDeskOnline, 20 May 2021; hokto-kinoko.co.jp, 01 Apr 2021; tbsradio.jp, 04 Oct 2019)

Japanese swimmer Kosuke Kitajima. (tv-tokyo.co.jp, 18 Oct 2018)

His mother. (ajw.asahi.com, 11 Jul 2012)

Philosophy:

"Never lose to ones whom you have defeated." (Itoman Swimming School YouTube channel, 04 Feb 2021)

He received an Excellence Award at the Japan Aquatics Awards in 2018, 2017 and 2016. (swim.or.jp, 29 Jan 2019, 22 Jan 2018; tobiuojapan.org, 30 Jan 2017)

In 2017 and 2015 he received the Osaka Sports Excellence Award in Japan. (pref.osaka.lg.jp, 19 Sep 2017, 16 Sep 2015)

He was named 2013 Swimmer of the Year by the Japan Swimming Federation. (asahi.com, 19 Mar 2014)

General Interest

General
TRAINING IN USA
He considered retirement after the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro but decided instead to relocate to San Diego, CA, United States of America to join the Team Elite training group and prepare for the 2020 Games in Tokyo. He returned to Japan in 2020. "When I couldn't claim a medal at the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, I felt a strong urge to quit immediately. I thought I might be outdated as an athlete. However, I wanted to demonstrate my abilities at the 2020 Olympic Games and made a big decision to train in a new environment by going to America. I thought I'd been swimming all the time in Japan and that I was running into a brick wall. I needed a change in environment to make me feel I could still compete and I was then able to see swimming from a new perspective." (olympics.com, 23 Feb 2021; sportiva.shueisha.co.jp, 07 Oct 2020, 11 Aug 2018; 4years.asahi.com, 23 Sep 2020; style.nikkei.com, 11 Mar 2019; japantimes.co.jp, 18 Apr 2018)

BOOKS
In 2013 he released his autobiography 'Swim Towards a Dream: What I Learned From the Sport'. He then released a second autobiography entitled 'Still, I Keep Swimming' in 2020. (amazon.co.jp, Sep 2020; hmv.co.jp, Mar 2013)

Social Media

Legend

:: Gold Medal Event
:: Silver Medal Event
:: Bronze Medal Event

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