Yuta Suenaga
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JapanKanagawa Prefecture, Japan
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Full name | Yuta Suenaga |
| National team | Japan |
| Born | 7 April 1985 Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan |
| Height | 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) |
| Weight | 72 kg (159 lb) |
| Sport | |
| Sport | Swimming |
| Strokes | Breaststroke |
| Club | Team Arena[1] |
| Coach | Toshiaki Kurosawa[1] |
Yuta Suenaga (末永雄太, Suenaga Yūta, born April 7, 1985) is a Japanese swimmer, who specialized in breaststroke events.[1][2] He attained a top eight finish in the 100 m breaststroke at the 2007 Summer Universiade in Bangkok, Thailand, and had been selected to represent Japan at the 2008 Summer Olympics.[3] Suenaga is an economics graduate at Hosei University in Tokyo.
Suenaga competed in a breaststroke double at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. Leading up to the Games, he cleared FINA A-standard entry times of 1:00.72 (100 m breaststroke) and 2:10.17 (200 m breaststroke) at the Olympic Trials in Tokyo.[4][5][6] In the 100 m breaststroke, Suenaga posted a thirteenth fastest time of 1:00.67 on the first day of preliminaries to secure his spot for the semifinals.[7][8] Followed by the next morning's session, Suenaga failed to qualify for the final, as he finished his semifinal run by matching his time and placement from the heats.[9] Four days later, 200 m breaststroke, Suenaga missed the semifinals by 0.11 of a second, as he shared his seventeenth-place tie with Norway's Alexander Dale Oen in 2:11.30.[10]
