OMOTO Rika

World Championships

Year	Location	50Free	100Free	200IndMed	4x100Free W	4x100Free X	4x100Medley W	4x100Medley X
2019	Gwangju, KOR	H (25.17)	H (54.89)	5th (2:09.32)	7th (3:36.79)	7th (3:24.67)	6th (3:58.14)	H (DSQ)

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

Year	200IndMed
2020	1 x 3rd

Champions Swim Series - Ten best performances since 2019

Rank	Year	Event	Location	Result
3	2020	200m Individual Medley	Beijing, CHN	2:10.09

World Championships Short Course

Year	Location	100IndMed	200IndMed	4x50Free W	4x200Free
2018	Hangzhou, CHN	8th (59.18)	H (2:07.94)	5th (1:37.35)	5th (7:42.97)

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

Airline Worker, Athlete

Law - Chuo University, Tokyo, JPN

Japanese

Itoman SS [JPN] / ANA [JPN]

Toru Horinouchi [club], JPN, from 2016; Norimasa Hirai [national], JPN

2014 for Japan (number.bunshun.jp, 08 Jul 2019)

2014 (number.bunshun.jp, 08 Jul 2019; nikkei.com, 22 Jul 2019;)

She began swimming at age one. (number.bunshun.jp, 08 Jul 2019; ritsumei.ac.jp, 10 Dec 2014)

Her mother took her to a pool with her two brothers who had a swimming class. She initially focused on breaststroke in the club team that she joined in grade two of primary school. She later switched her focus to medley events following her coach's advice. (ritsumei.ac.jp, 10 Dec 2014; the-ans.jp, 25 Jun 2019)

To win a medal in the 200m individual medley at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. (chudaisports.com, 17 Mar 2020)

Japanese swimmer Kohei Kitajima. (hochi.news, 11 Jul 2019)

She received an Excellence Award at the 2015 Nagaoka Sports Awards in Japan. (city.nagaokakyo.lg.jp, 02 Oct 2018)