Megumi Taneda
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| Full name | Megumi Taneda | ||||||||||||
| National team |
 Japan | ||||||||||||
| Born |
20 September 1986 Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan | ||||||||||||
| Height | 1.62 m (5 ft 4 in) | ||||||||||||
| Weight | 57 kg (126 lb) | ||||||||||||
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| Sport | Swimming | ||||||||||||
| Strokes | Breaststroke | ||||||||||||
| Club | JSS Nagaoka[1] | ||||||||||||
| Coach | Yoshiaki Takemura[1] | ||||||||||||
Medal record
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Megumi Taneda (種田恵 Taneda Megumi, born September 20, 1986 in Sapporo) is a Japanese swimmer, who specialized in breaststroke events.[1][2] She claimed the 200 m breaststroke title in a close race against U.S. swimmer and eventual Olympic champion Rebecca Soni by 0.03 of a second at the 2005 Summer Universiade in Izmir, Turkey with a time of 2:27.81.[3][4] Taneda is an economics graduate at Kanagawa University in Kanagawa.
Taneda competed for the Japanese team in a breaststroke double at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. Leading up to the Games, she emerged the only swimmer to meet the Olympic qualifying standard in the 100 m breaststroke with a 1:07.91, and then beat her rival Rie Kaneto to clear the FINA-A cut time in 2:24.54 for a 200 m breaststroke victory at the Olympic trials in Tokyo.[5][6] On the second day of the Games, Taneda missed out the semifinals by 0.08 of a second, after finishing seventeenth in the preliminary heats of the 100 m breaststroke in 1:08.45.[7] In her second event, 200 m breaststroke, Taneda rounded out the final in last place by nine hundredths of a second (0.09) behind her teammate Rie Kaneto in 2:25.23.[8][9]
References
- 1 2 3 "Megumi Taneda". Beijing 2008. Retrieved 16 January 2016.
- ↑ "Megumi Taneda". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 4 December 2012.
- ↑ "World University Games Day 3". Swimming World Magazine. 14 August 2005. Retrieved 7 April 2013.
- ↑ "Harvest Day for US, China". People's Daily. 15 August 2005. Retrieved 7 April 2013.
- ↑ Mochizuki, Hideki (20 April 2008). "Japanese Olympic Trials: Masayuki Kishida Sets National Record". Swimming World Magazine. Retrieved 4 December 2012.
- ↑ Mochizuki, Hideki (17 April 2008). "Japanese Olympic Trials: Add Hanae Itoh to Sub-Minute 100 Back Club". Swimming World Magazine. Retrieved 7 April 2013.
- ↑ "Women's 100m Breaststroke Heat 6". Beijing 2008. NBC Olympics. Retrieved 4 December 2012.
- ↑ "Women's 200m Breaststroke Final". Beijing 2008. NBC Olympics. Retrieved 4 December 2012.
- ↑ Lohn, John (14 August 2008). "Olympics, Swimming: Rebecca Soni Upsets Leisel Jones With 200 Breast World Record". Swimming World Magazine. Retrieved 7 April 2013.