SUNAMA Keita

World Championships

Year	Location	200Back
2019	Gwangju, KOR	H (1:58.40)

Asian Games

Year	Location	200Back
2018	Indonesia	3rd (1:55.54)

Pan Pacific Championships

Year	Location	200Back
2018	Tokyo, JPN	5th (1:57.03)

Asian Championships

Year	Location	200Back	200IndMed
2016	Tokyo, JPN	3rd (1:57.96)	3rd (1:58.82)

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

Driving. (Ameba profile, 24 Sep 2019)

Athlete, Office Worker

Law - Chuo University, Japan

Japanese

Itoman Toshin [Japan]

Norimasa Hirai [national], JPN

He took up the sport at age three in Yamatokoriyama, Japan. (itoman.com, 03 Apr 2019; sankei.com, 01 Jan 2014)

His parents encouraged him to take up swimming. He began to focus on baseball in grade four of primary school, before giving up both sports. He returned to swimming the following year on the recommendation of his coach. (Ameba profile, 24 Sep 2019; the-ans.jp, 11 Jul 2019; sankei.com, 01 Jan 2014)

To win a medal at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. (mainichi.jp, 16 Apr 2016)

He focuses on weight training in order to build muscle in his upper body, particularly his chest and shoulders. "Compared to foreign athletes, my body is still lean. I can't beat them with this body. Therefore, I asked acquaintances of a rugby player and an American football player about their training regimes and applied them to my training sessions." (nhk.or.jp, 19 Dec 2020)

US swimmer Ryan Murphy. (nhk.or.jp, 19 Dec 2020)

High school teacher Ryosuke Yamamoto. (Ameba profile, 24 Sep 2019)

In 2016 he was given a Prize for Encouragement by the Nara Amateur Sports Association in Japan. (nara-sports.or.jp, 31 Dec 2016)

In 2010 he received the Osaka Sports Excellence Award in Japan. (pref.osaka.lg.jp, 18 Sep 2010)