Takuro Fujii

Takuro Fujii

Fujii at the 2016 Olympics
Personal information
Full name	Takuro Fujii
National team	Japan
Born	(1985-04-21) April 21, 1985 Kawachinagano, Japan
Height	1.84 m (6 ft 0 in)
Weight	75 kg (165 lb)
Sport
Sport	Swimming
Strokes	Butterfly, freestyle
Medal record Representing  Japan Men's swimming Event 1st 2nd 3rd Olympic Games 0 1 1 World Championships (LC) 0 0 1 Olympic Games 2008 Beijing 4×100 m medley 2012 London 4×100 m medley World Championships (LC) 2013 Barcelona 4×100 m medley Pan Pacific Championships 2010 Irvine 4x100 m medley 2010 Irvine 100 m butterfly Asian Games 2010 Guangzhou 100 m freestyle

Takuro Fujii (藤井 拓郎, Fujii Takurō, born April 21, 1985) is a Japanese competitive swimmer and two-time Olympic medalist. He won the bronze medal by swimming the butterfly leg in the 4 × 100 m medley relay at the 2008 Summer Olympics. He followed this with a silver medal at the 2012 Summer Olympics, again in the medley relay, but this time by swimming the freestyle (anchor) leg.^[1]

Personal bests

In long course

• 100 m freestyle: 48.73 Asian, Japanese Record (April 16, 2009)
• 100 m butterfly: 51.28 Asian, Japanese Record (February 1, 2009)

In short course

• 100 m freestyle: 46.85 Asian, Japanese Record (March 8, 2009)

References

External links

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• Takuro Fujii at FINA
• Takuro Fujii at the International Olympic Committee
• Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill. "Takuro Fujii". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC.