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Four-time Olympic champion Kosuke Kitajima – the only man in history to have won back-to-back breaststroke titles – believes athletes must prepare for every eventuality and overcome every hurdle in ...

Typically, debates rage over who is the greatest athlete in a particular stroke. When it comes to the men’s breaststroke events, there is no question. Japan’s Kosuke Kitajima has a firm handle on ...

CRANBURY, New Jersey, December 5. LAST week, just before the Asian Games started in Qatar, Norimasa Hirai made a bold prediction. Speaking of his Japanese pupil, Kosuke Kitajima, the veteran coach ...

World-record holder Brendan Hansen dropped out of the 200-meter breaststroke because of illness today, spoiling the next chapter in his rivalry with Kosuke Kitajima of Japan at the world swimming ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. After Brendan Hansen failed last night to make the U.S. Olympic swimming ...

MELBOURNE, Australia — They couldn’t have choreographed it better. Brendan Hansen and Kosuke Kitajima bobbed up and down in unison, their rivalry renewed in the murky waters of a temporary pool set up ...

TOKYO (AFP) – Japanese swimming great Kosuke Kitajima is hoping a wave of public support will help Tokyo secure the 2020 Olympics as he contemplates the end of his glittering career. The four-time ...

BUDAPEST (Reuters) – Kosuke Kitajima believes the men’s 200 meters breaststroke final will be “one of the biggest races to watch” at the Tokyo Olympics if Britain’s Adam Peaty steps up to take on a ...

MISSION Viejo, Calif., June 16. NEXT month, one of the highlight events of the World Championships will be the duel in the 100-meter breaststroke between Japan’s Kosuke Kitajima and the United States’ ...

Japanese Olympic champion and breaststroke star Kosuke Kitajima was elected as the Vice Chairman of the Tokyo Metropolitan Swimming Association this week according to a post on the organization’s ...

ATHENS — Aaron Peirsol accused Kosuke Kitajima of Japan of “cheating” by using an illegal dolphin kick at the start of the men’s 100-meter breaststroke race Sunday at the Olympics. The accusation came ...