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Masami Tanaka Personal information Born 1979
Engaru, Hokkaidō, JapanMedal recordWomen’s swimming Competitor for 
JapanOlympic Games Bronze 2000 Sydney[1] 4x100 m medley World Championships (LC) Bronze 1998 Perth 4x100 m medley World Championships (SC) Gold 1999 Hong Kong 50 m breaststroke Gold 1999 Hong Kong 100 m breaststroke Gold 1999 Hong Kong 200 m breaststroke Gold 1999 Hong Kong 4x100 m medley Pan Pacific Championships Silver 1997 Fukuoka 200 m breaststroke Summer Universiade Gold 1997 Catania 200 m breaststroke Masami Tanaka (田中 雅美 Tanaka Masami, born January 5, 1979 in Engaru, Hokkaidō) is a former breaststroke swimmer from Japan. She won the bronze medal in the 4x100m Medley Relay at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia. Her winning teammates in that race were Mai Nakamura, Junko Onishi, and Sumika Minamoto. She competed in three consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 1996.
References
- ^ "ESPN Sydney Swimming". http://static.espn.go.com/oly/summer00/swimming/index.html. Retrieved 2009-03-14.
World Short Course Champions in Women's 50 m Breaststroke 1999: Masami Tanaka (JPN) · 2000: Sarah Poewe (RSA) · 2002: Emma Igelström (SWE) · 2004: Brooke Hanson (AUS) · 2006: Jade Edmistone (AUS) · 2008: Jessica Hardy (USA) · 2010: Rebecca Soni (USA)World Short Course Champions in Women's 100 m Breaststroke 1993: Dai Guohong (CHN) · 1995: Samantha Riley (AUS) · 1997: Kristy Ellem (AUS) · 1999: Masami Tanaka (JPN) · 2000: Sarah Poewe (RSA) · 2002: Emma Igelström (SWE) · 2004: Brooke Hanson (AUS) · 2006: Tara Kirk (USA) · 2008: Jessica Hardy (USA) · 2010: Rebecca Soni (USA)World Short Course Champions in Women's 200 m Breaststroke 1993: Dai Guohong (CHN) · 1995: Samantha Riley (AUS) · 1997: Kristy Ellem (AUS) · 1999: Masami Tanaka (JPN) · 2000: Rebecca Brown (AUS) · 2002: Qi Hui (CHN) · 2004: Brooke Hanson (AUS) · 2006: Qi Hui (CHN) · 2008: Suzaan van Biljon (RSA) · 2010: Rebecca Soni (USA)World Short Course Champions in Women's 4×100 m Medley Relay 1993: China (Le, He, Liu, Dai) · 1995: Australia (Overton, Riley, Kennedy, O'Neill) · 1997: China (Lu, Han, Cai, Le) · 1999: Japan (Nakamura, Tanaka, Aoyama, Minamoto) · 2000: Sweden (Alshammar, Igelström, Sjöberg, Kammerling) · 2002: Sweden (Alshammar, Igelström, Kammerling, Sjöberg) · 2004: Australia (Edington, Hanson, Schipper, Lenton) · 2006: Australia (Zimmer, Edmistone, Schipper, Lenton) · 2008: United States (Hoelzer, Hardy, Komisarz, Denby) · 2010: China (Zhao, Zhao, Liu, Tang)
Summer Universiade Champions in Women's 200 m Breaststroke 1959: Chris Gosden (GBR) • 1961: Sanda Iordan (ROM) • 1963: Márta Egerváry (HUN) • 1965: Svetlana Babanina (URS) • 1967: Cynthia Goyette (USA) • 1970: Galina Stepanova (URS) • 1973: Catherine Carr (USA) • 1977: Anne Gagnon (CAN) • 1979: Irena Fleissnerová (TCH) • 1981: Lina Kačiušytė (URS) • 1983: Larisa Belokon (URS) • 1985: Tanya Bogomilova (BUL) • 1987: Ingrid Lempereur (BEL) • 1991: Svetlana Kuzmina (URS) • 1993: Svitlana Bondarenko (UKR) • 1995: Penelope Heyns (RSA) • 1997: Masami Tanaka (JPN) • 1999 – 2001: Yuko Sakaguchi (JPN) • 2003: Qi Hui (CHN) • 2005: Megumi Taneda (JPN) • 2007: Jung Seul-Ki (KOR) • 2009: Rie Kaneto (JPN) 2011: Sun Ye (CHN)
Categories:- 1979 births
- Living people
- Japanese swimmers
- Olympic swimmers of Japan
- Swimmers at the 1996 Summer Olympics
- Swimmers at the 2000 Summer Olympics
- Swimmers at the 2004 Summer Olympics
- Olympic bronze medalists for Japan
- Former world record holders in swimming
- People from Hokkaidō
- Olympic medalists in swimming
- World Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming
- Japanese swimming biography stubs
- Japanese Olympic medalist stubs
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