Daiya Seto
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Seto swims to his second World Championships gold medal
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| Full name | Daiya Seto | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| National team |  Japan |
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| Born | 24 May 1994 Moroyama, Saitama, Japan |
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| Height | 1.74 m (5 ft 9 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 72 kg (159 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Swimming | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Strokes | Butterfly, individual medley | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | JSS Moroyama | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| College team | Waseda University | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Medal record
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Daiya Seto (瀬戸 大也 Seto Daiya?, born 24 May 1994[1]) is a Japanese competitive swimmer who swims in the individual medley, butterfly, breaststroke, and freestyle events. He won the gold medal in the 400 meter individual medley at the 2012[2] and 2014 world short course championships, as well as at the 2013 and 2015 world long course championships. Seto holds the Asian records in the 200 meter and 400 meter individual medley (short course).
Seto is the first Asian to become world champion in the medley.[3]
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Swimming career
Seto just missed out on making the Olympic team in 2012 when he finished third in both the 200 m and 400 m individual medley events. He was however very successful at the 2012 FINA World Cup. He competed in all the stops of the cup, and ended up coming fourth overall in the rankings. He concluded the short course season at the 2012 Short Course World Championships. Here Seto won the first international medals of his career. He first competed in the 400 m individual medley, where he won his first World Championship title in a new Asian record of 3:59.12, over a second and a half faster than second-place finisher László Cseh. He then competed in the 200 m individual medley, where he was able to rally past Cseh for the silver in a time of 1:52.80, over three seconds behind the winner Ryan Lochte. who broke the world record.
2013 World Championships
Despite being the short course World Champion, Seto was still coming into the 2013 World Aquatics Championships in Barcelona, Spain relatively unknown, mostly due to Japanese medley star Kosuke Hagino. He once again swam both individual medley events. In the 200 m, his first event, he swam a personal best in the semifinals with a time of 1:58.03, and then finished a touch slower in the final the next night to finish seventh overall. In his best event, the 400 m individual medley, Seto qualified first for the final and then surprisingly won his first long course world champion title by finishing first in a time of 4:08.69, about half a second ahead of second-place finisher Chase Kalisz. He is the second fastest Asian performer in the event, behind Hagino.
2015 World Championships
Seto successfully defended his world title in the 400 m individual medley on the last day of the 2015 World Aquatics Championships in Kazan, Russia.[4] Earlier in the meet, he did not live up to expectations in the 200 meter butterfly and individual medley, events in which he was ranked 2nd in the world before the championships.[5][6]
Personal bests
long course, as of 7 April 2016[7]
| Event | Time | Meet | Venue | Date | Note(s) |
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| 200m individual medley | 1:56.82 | 2015 Japan Swim | Tokyo, Japan | 04/10/15 | |
| 400m individual medley | 4:08.50 | 2015 World Swimming Championships | Kazan, Russia | 08/09/15 | |
| 200m butterfly | 1:54.08 | 2014 Asian Games | Incheon, South Korea | 09/21/14 |
short course, as of 7 April 2016
| Event | Time | Meet | Venue | Date | Note(s) |
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| 400m individual medley | 3:56.33 | 2014 World Swimming Championships (short course) | Doha, Qatar | 04/12/14 | NR, AS |
| 200m butterfly | 1:48.92 | 2014 World Swimming Championships (short course) | Doha, Qatar | 07/12/14 | NR, AS |
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