Speaking of summer, sports is swimming. Now there is a big swimming event, the 13th FINA World Championships, in Rome.
Today a good news arrived. Koga Junya(古賀 淳也), 22 years old Waseda(早稲田) University student got the gold medal for Men's 100m Backstroke with the new Japan record of 52'26". Congratulations!!
This became the first gold medal for Japanese in this World Championships. He became the second gold medalist after Kitajima Kosuke(北島 康介) who became the champions in 2003 and 2007 for 3 times for the breaststroke. As for the backstroke, Suzuki Daichi(鈴木 大地) became the champion at the 1988 Seoul Olympics.
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