Sunday reults (Saturday, U.S. time) from the swimming events at the Summer Olympics in Sydney (Q-qualified for next round; all distances in meters): 1, Domenico Fioravanti, Italy, 1:00.46 (Fred ...

Who is your favourite athlete? Japanese swimming superstar Kosuke Kitajima. I look up to him because it is not easy for an Asian athlete to win gold medals and set records at the Olympic Games.

Shin Samurai-den YAIBA's first three episodes will get early screenings at 10 TOHO Cinemas locations on March 13. The screenings will include a roundtable video featuring Aoyama, director Takahiro ...

It happened during the first day of the Kosuke Kitajima Cup held last week at the Japanese facilities. Several swimmers suffered injuries in the women's 400-metre individual medley due to a ...

It was the slowest winning performance since Japan’s Kosuke Kitajima two decades ago at the Athens Olympics. At least one swimming world record has been set at every Olympics in the post-World War II ...

Although it is a top-tier swimming venue where Kosuke Kitajima broke the world record in the 200-meter breaststroke in 2008, it wasn’t good enough for the IOC. The facility failed to meet one of ...