Akira Hayashi (swimmer)

Japanese swimmer (born 1974)

Akira Hayashi

Personal information

Full name| Akira Hayashi
Nationality|  Japan
Born|  (1974-09-16) September 16, 1974 (age 49)
Miyazaki
Height| 1.71 m (5 ft 7 in)
Weight| 72 kg (159 lb)
Sport
Sport| Swimming
Strokes| Breaststroke
Club| Akeno Swimming Pool

Medal record

Men's Swimming
Pan Pacific Championships
|  1995 Atlanta | 200m Breaststroke
|  1993 Kobe | 100m Breaststroke
|  1991 Edmonton | 100m Breaststroke
|  1993 Kobe | 4x100m medley
|  1995 Atlanta | 4x100m medley
Asian Games
|  1994 Hiroshima | 100 m breaststroke
|  1994 Hiroshima | 4x100 m medley
|  1994 Hiroshima | 200 m breaststroke
|  1998 Bangkok | 100 m breaststroke
Summer Universiade
|  1995 Fukuoka | 100m Breaststroke
|  1993 Buffalo | 100m Breaststroke
|  1999 Palma | 100m Breaststroke
|  1993 Buffalo | 200m Breaststroke
|  1995 Fukuoka | 200m Breaststroke

Akira Hayashi (林 享, Hayashi Akira) (born September 16, 1974) is a retired Japanese male breaststroke swimmer. He represented Japan at three consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 1992. He is best known for winning a five medals in the 1990s at the Summer Universiade.

## References[edit]

* Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Akira Hayashi". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 2020-04-17.

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Asian Games champions in men's 100 m breaststroke

* 1951 – 1954: not held
* 1958: Masaru Ota (JPN)
* 1962: Kenji Ishikawa (JPN)
* 1966: Kenji Ishikawa (JPN)
* 1970: Nobutaka Taguchi (JPN)
* 1974: Nobutaka Taguchi (JPN)
* 1978: Shigehiro Takahashi (JPN)
* 1982: Ye Runcheng (CHN)
* 1986: Jin Pu (CHN)
* 1990: Chen Jianhong (CHN)
* 1994: Akira Hayashi (JPN)
* 1998: Zeng Qiliang (CHN)
* 2002: Kosuke Kitajima (JPN)
* 2006: Kosuke Kitajima (JPN)
* 2010: Ryo Tateishi (JPN)
* 2014: Dmitriy Balandin (KAZ)
* 2018: Yasuhiro Koseki (JPN)
* 2022: Qin Haiyang (CHN)

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Pan Pacific Champions in Men's 200 m Breaststroke

* 1985: John Moffet (USA)
* 1987: Steve Bentley (USA)
* 1989: Mike Barrowman (USA)
* 1991: Mike Barrowman (USA)
* 1993: Phil Rogers (AUS)
* 1995: Akira Hayashi (JPN)
* 1997: Kurt Grote (USA)
* 1999: Simon Cowley (AUS)
* 2002: Brendan Hansen (USA)
* 2006: Brendan Hansen (USA)
* 2010: Kosuke Kitajima (JPN)
* 2014: Yasuhiro Koseki (JPN)
* 2018: Ippei Watanabe (JPN)

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Summer Universiade Champions in Men's 100 m Breaststroke

* 1967: Ken Merten (USA)
* 1970 - 1973: Nikolay Pankin (URS)
* 1977: Graham Smith (CAN)
* 1979: Vladimir Fliont (URS)
* 1981: Nicholas Nevid (USA)
* 1983: Shigehiro Takahashi (JPN)
* 1985: John Moffet (USA)
* 1987: Lorenzo Carbonari (ITA)
* 1991: Brian Pajer (USA)
* 1993: Jud Crawford (USA)
* 1995: Akira Hayashi (JPN)
* 1997: Stanislav Lopukhov (RUS)
* 1999: Andrey Perminov (RUS)
* 2001: Oleh Lisohor (UKR)
* 2003: James Gibson (GBR)
* 2005: Oleh Lisohor (UKR)
* 2007: Valeriy Dymo (UKR)
* 2009: Ihor Borysyk (UKR)
* 2011: Giedrius Titenis (LTU)
* 2013: Yasuhiro Koseki (JPN)
* 2015: Dmitriy Balandin (KAZ)
* 2017: Ilya Shymanovich (BLR) & Andrew Wilson (USA)
* 2019: Ian Finnerty (USA)
* 2021: Qin Haiyang (CHN)

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