SATO Shoma

World Junior Championships

Year	Location	50Breast	100Breast	200Breast	4x100Free M	4x100Medley M	4x100Medley X
2019	Budapest, HUN	6th (28.04)	7th (1:01.26)	2nd (2:09.56)	H (3:27.53)	H (3:45.14)	5th (3:51.30)

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

Going to ramen restaurants. (nikkansports.com, 26 Jan 2020)

Student

Keio University, Tokyo, JPN

Japanese

Keio University [JPN] / Tokyo SC [JPN]

Norimasa Hirai [national], JPN; Kenji Saizo [personal], JPN, from 2016

He first swam as a baby, and took up the sport in grade three of primary school. (nikkansports.com, 26 Jan 2020)

He was taken to a pool by his father to learn water safety, as his father was a sailing enthusiast. He later joined the Tokyo Swimming Centre in Japan because he had friends who went there. (nikkansports.com, 26 Jan 2020)

To win medals at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo and the 2024 Games in Paris. (Instagram profile, 16 Aug 2020; nikkansports.com, 26 Jan 2020)

British swimmer Adam Peaty, Japanese swimmer Kosuke Kitajima, US swimmer Michael Phelps. (hochi.news, 26 Jan 2020)