Kosuke Hagino

Kosuke Hagino

Personal information
Nationality	Japan
Born	(1994-08-15) 15 August 1994 Tochigi, Japan
Height	175 cm (5 ft 9 in)
Weight	70 kg (155 lb)
Sport
Sport	Swimming
Strokes	Backstroke, freestyle, medley
Medal record Olympic Games 2012 London 400 m medley World Championships (LC) 2013 Barcelona 400 m freestyle 2013 Barcelona 200 m medley Asian Games 2014 Incheon [Swimming at the 2014 Asian Games Pan Pacific Championships 2014 Gold Coast 200 m medley 2014 Gold Coast 400 m medley 2014 Gold Coast 200 m freestyle 2014 Gold Coast 400 m freestyle 2014 Gold Coast 4×200 m freestyle

Kosuke Hagino (萩野公介, Hagino Kōsuke, born August 15, 1994) is a Japanese swimmer who competes in the individual medley and 4×200m freestyle relay. He had the best time in the 400m individual medley heats at the 2012 Summer Olympics with a time of 4:10.01, an Asian record. He went on to claim the bronze medal in the final, placing third behind gold medalist Ryan Lochte of the United States and silver medalist Thiago Pereira of Brazil. At the 2013 World Championships, he placed 2nd in the 400m freestyle with a time of 3.44.82.

Swimming career

Hagino made his big international breakthrough at the 2012 Olympics held in London. Hagino qualified first in the 400 m individual medley heats with a new Asian record of 4:10.01, and would go on to win his first international medal with a bronze in the event and again lower his Asian record to a 4:08.94.

2013 World Aquatics Championships

Coming into the Championships Hagino had qualified for a full slate of events including the 200 m freestyle, 400 m freestyle, 100 m backstroke, 200 m backstroke, 200 m individual medley and the 400 m individual medley. In his first event the 400 m freestyle Hagino was able to pick up his first World Championships medal with a silver and a new Japanese record of 3:44.82. He would be back in finals action on day 3 of the meet of where he competed in his first final of the night, the 200 m freestyle. Despite being in medal contention, Hagino was caught in a close race and was locked out of the medals in fifth place with a new personal best time of 1:45.94. Nearly an hour later, and he came to swim the final of the 100 m backstroke and place seventh in 53.93, much slower than his Japanese nationals time of 53.10 which would have won him a silver medal. On day five, after qualifying for the final, Hagino won another silver medal in the 200 m individual medley. His time of 1:56.29 was about half a second off his Japanese nationals time of 1:55.74, but it was his second medal of the meet. The following day he would lead off Japan for the 4 x 200 m freestyle relay, and was able to take off a hundredth of a second off his 200 m free time from day three, swimming a 1:45.93. He also placed fifth in the 200 m backstroke final that night, finishing in 1:55.42. On the final night of competition, despite coming in as the favourite, Hagino was again only able to manage fifth place, finishing in 4:10.77. Although only winning two medals in his seven events, he was the only swimmer at the meet to swim six individual events.

Personal bests (long course)

As of September 21, 2014.

Event	Time	Venue	Date
100 m freestyle	48.75	Japan
200 m freestyle	1:45.23	Incheon	September 21, 2014
400 m freestyle	3:43.90	Japan	April 12, 2014
100 m backstroke	53.08	Japan	April 11, 2014
200 m backstroke	1:54.77	Japan	January 25, 2014
200 m medley	1:55.38	Japan	2014
400 m medley	4:07.61	Japan	2013