10 Facts About Rie Kaneto

Rie Kaneto is a Japanese competitive swimmer who specializes in breaststroke events.

Rie Kaneto won the gold medal in the 200 meter breaststroke at the 2016 Summer Olympics.

Rie Kaneto represented her nation Japan, as a 19-year-old junior, at the 2008 Summer Olympics and has won a career total of four medals in a major international competition, spanning two editions of the Summer Universiade, the Short Course Worlds, and the Pan Pacific Championships.

Apart from her Olympic career, Kaneto demolished both a Japanese and Asian record of 2:20.72 at the Japan University Championships in Kumamoto.

Rie Kaneto is a physical education graduate at Tokai University in Hiroshima.

Rie Kaneto made her international swimming debut at the 2007 Summer Universiade in Bangkok, Thailand, quickly claiming a silver medal in the 200 m breaststroke by less than 0.04 of a second behind South Korea's Jung Seul-ki in 2:25.63.

Rie Kaneto earned her first selection to the Japanese team to compete in the women's 200 m breaststroke at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.

Rie Kaneto touched out Taneda to take the seventh spot in the final by nine hundredths of a second, in an outstanding time of 2:25.14.

At the 2009 Summer Universiade in Belgrade, Serbia, Rie Kaneto set an Asian and Japanese mark of 2:22.32 to claim the 200 m breaststroke title, just a single hundredth margin off her record from the national championships.

In 2010, Rie Kaneto surprisingly missed out the podium in the 200 m breaststroke at the Asian Games in Guangzhou, China, when she placed fourth behind two Chinese swimmers and new champion Jeong Da-rae of South Korea in 2:25.63.