Tatsuya Kinugasa
Japanese swimmer (born 1974)
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Full name | 衣笠 竜也 | ||||||||||||||||||||
Nationality | Japan | ||||||||||||||||||||
Born | (1974-10-08) October 8, 1974 (age 49) | ||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 73 kg (161 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Swimming | ||||||||||||||||||||
Strokes | Medley | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Tatsuya Kinugasa (衣笠 竜也, Kinugasa Tatsuya, born October 8, 1974) is a male Japanese retired male medley swimmer.
Swimming career
Kinugasa represented Japan at two consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 1992.[1] He is best known for winning two gold medals at the 1997 Summer Universiade in Catania, Italy.
Despite being of Japanese nationality he won the 200 metres medley title [2] and the 400 metres medley title in 1997, at the ASA National British Championships.[3]
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Summer Universiade Champions in Men's 200 m Individual Medley
- 1981: Sergey Fesenko (URS)
- 1983: Alex Baumann (CAN)
- 1985: Chris Rives (USA)
- 1987: Neil Cochran (GBR)
- 1991: Greg Burgess (USA)
- 1993: Fraser Walker (GBR)
- 1995: Tom Wilkens (USA)
- 1997: Tatsuya Kinugasa (JPN)
- 1999: Tommy Hannan (USA)
- 2001 – 2003: Takahiro Mori (JPN)
- 2005: Eric Shanteau (USA)
- 2007: Brian Johns (CAN)
- 2009: Alex Vanderkaay (USA)
- 2011: László Cseh (HUN)
- 2013: Justin James (AUS)
- 2015: Justin James (AUS) / Josh Prenot (USA)
- 2017: Kosuke Hagino (JPN)
- 2019: Juran Mizohata (JPN)
- 2021: Gabriel Lopes (POR)
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