Naoya Tomita
Japanese swimmer (born 1989)
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| Born | (1989-04-22) April 22, 1989 (age 35) Tōkai, Aichi, Japan | |||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in) | |||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Swimming | |||||||||||||||||
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Naoya Tomita (冨田 尚弥, Tomita Naoya, born April 22, 1989) is a Japanese breaststroke swimmer.[1] In 2010, he won the 200 m event at the World Championships (short course) and at the Asian Games. At the 2014 Asian Games he was caught on surveillance cameras while stealing a video camera belonging to the Yonhap News Agency. He admitted to the fact and paid a fine of 1 million won (ca. US$1000). On October 7, 2014, he was banned for 18 months from competitions by Japan Swimming Federation and fired by his employer, sports apparel manufacturer Descente Ltd.[2]
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World short-course champions in men's 200 m breaststroke
- 1993:
Nick Gillingham (GBR) - 1995:
Wang Yiwu (CHN) - 1997:
Aleksandr Gukov (BLR) - 1999:
Phil Rogers (AUS) - 2000:
Roman Sloudnov (RUS) - 2002: Jim Piper (AUS)
- 2004:
Brendan Hansen (USA) - 2006:
Vladislav Polyakov (KAZ) - 2008: Kristopher Gilchrist (GBR)
- 2010:
Naoya Tomita (JPN) - 2012:
Dániel Gyurta (HUN) - 2014: Dániel Gyurta (HUN)
- 2016:
Marco Koch (GER) - 2018: Kirill Prigoda (RUS)
- 2021: Nic Fink (USA)
- 2022: Daiya Seto (JPN)
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