JAPANESE SWIMMERS
CENTENARY GAMES PAIR The selection of Y. Sakayanii and S. Kiyokawa to represent Japan iu the swimming events of the Centenary Games should cause satisfaction in Melbourne, for both are outstanding among their country’s many wonderful swimmers. The winner of the 100 Metres Backstroke Championship at the Olympic Games in 1032, Kiyokawa has maintained his supremacy at this style of swimming and only recently covered 100 metres in the world’s record time of 67 3-ssec. :/
Sakayanii, who is a free style sprinter, is not so well known in New Zealand, but he, too, represented Japan at the last Olympic Games, and, although not superior to the Olympic champion, Y. Myiazaki, and present Japanese champion, M. Yusa, his times are only fractions of a second slower than theirs. He usually registers about o3see for 100 yards, so that he should be more than a match for Australia’s best sprinters. So keen are New Zealand enthusiasts to see Japanese swimmers in action that they will not be satisfied until the New Zealand Council conforms with a resolution it made last season, and makes every endeavour to bring Saka yami and Kiyokawa to the’ Dominion.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22365, 12 September 1934, Page 10
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