Megumi teneda biography olympic swimmer

Japanese swimmer (born 1986)

Megumi Taneda (種田恵, Taneda Megumi, born September 20, 1986 in Sapporo) is a Japanese swimmer, who specialized in breaststroke events.^[1][2] She claimed the 200 m breaststroke title in a close race against U.S.

swimmer and eventual Olympic champion Rebecca Soni by 0.03 of a second at the 2005 Summer Universiade in Izmir, Turkey with a time of 2:27.81.^[3][4] Taneda is an economics graduate at Kanagawa University in Kanagawa.

Taneda competed for the Japanese team in a breaststroke double at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.

Leading up to the Games, she emerged the only swimmer to meet the Olympic qualifying standard in the 100 m breaststroke with a 1:07.91, and then beat her rival Rie Kaneto to clear the FINA-A cut time in 2:24.54 for a 200 m breaststroke victory at the Olympic trials in Tokyo.^[5][6] On the second day of the Games, Taneda missed out the semifinals by 0.08 Megumi Taneda - Olympedia GIQA