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Rie Kaneto

Japanese swimmer (born 1988)

Rie Kaneto

Kazan 2015
Personal information
Full name	Rie Kaneto
National team	Japan
Born	(1988-09-08) 8 September 1988 (age 35) Shobara, Hiroshima, Japan
Height	174 cm (5 ft 9 in)
Weight	67 kg (148 lb)
Sport
Sport	Swimming
Strokes	Breaststroke
Club	Tokai SC
Coach	Tsuyoshi Kato
Medal record Women's swimming Representing Japan Olympic Games 2016 Rio de Janeiro 200 m breaststroke World Championships (SC) 2014 Doha 200 m breaststroke Pan Pacific Championships 2014 Gold Coast 200 m breaststroke Asian Games 2014 Incheon 200 m breaststroke Universiade 2009 Belgrade 200 m breaststroke 2007 Bangkok 200 m breaststroke

Rie Kaneto (金藤 理絵, Kanetō Rie, born 8 September 1988) is a Japanese competitive swimmer who specializes in breaststroke events.^[1] She won the gold medal in the 200 meter breaststroke at the 2016 Summer Olympics.

Career[edit]

She represented her nation Japan, as a 19-year-old junior, at the 2008 Summer Olympics and has won a career total of four medals in a major international competition, spanning two editions of the Summer Universiade (2007 and 2009), the Short Course Worlds, and the Pan Pacific Championships. Apart from her Olympic career, Kaneto also demolished both a Japanese and Asian record of 2:20.72 at the Japan University Championships in Kumamoto.^[2] Kaneto is a physical education graduate at Tokai University in Hiroshima.

Rie made her international swimming debut at the 2007 Summer Universiade in Bangkok, Thailand, quickly claiming a silver medal in the 200 m breaststroke by less than 0.04 of a second behind South Korea's Jung Seul-ki in 2:25.63. Rie's best effort at these Games vaulted her up to twelfth in the world rankings.^[3][4]

Rie earned her first selection to the Japanese team to compete in the women's 200 m breaststroke at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. Leading up to the Games, she placed second behind Megumi Taneda at the Olympic trials in Tokyo with a FINA A-standard entry time of 2:26.28.^[5] Kaneto touched out Taneda to take the seventh spot in the final by nine hundredths of a second (0.09), in an outstanding time of 2:25.14.^[6][7]

At the 2009 Summer Universiade in Belgrade, Serbia, Rie set an Asian and Japanese mark of 2:22.32 to claim the 200 m breaststroke title, just a single hundredth margin off her record from the national championships (2:22.33).^[8]

In 2010, Rie surprisingly missed out the podium in the 200 m breaststroke at the Asian Games in Guangzhou, China, when she placed fourth behind two Chinese swimmers and new champion Jeong Da-rae of South Korea in 2:25.63.^[9]

In March 2018 Rie retired from competitive swimming.^[10]

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External links[edit]

• Rie KanetoatWorld Aquatics