Seto at the 2015 World Championships
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Full name | Daiya Seto | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
National team | Japan | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born |
Moroyama, Saitama, Japan |
May 24, 1994 ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 174 cm (5 ft 9 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 73 kg (161 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Swimming | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Strokes | Butterfly, individual medley | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Club | JSS Moroyama | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
College team | Waseda University | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Coach | Takayuki Umehara (club) Norimasa Hirai |
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Medal record
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Daiya Seto (瀬戸 大也 Seto Daiya?, born May 24, 1994) is a Japanese competitive swimmer who swims in the individual medley, butterfly, breaststroke, and freestyle events. He won the gold medal in the 400 meter individual medley at the 2012,2014, and 2016 world short course championships, as well as at the 2013 and 2015 world long course championships. Seto holds the Asian records in the 200 meter butterfly and 400 meter individual medley (short course).
Seto is the first Asian swimmer to become a world champion in the individual medley.
Seto took up swimming aged five. He narrowly missed the 2012 Olympics when he finished third in both the 200 m and 400 m individual medley events at the national selection. He improved at the 2012 FINA World Cup, where he competed in all stages and ended up fourth overall. He concluded the short course season at the 2012 Short Course World Championships. Here Seto won the first international medals of his career. He first competed in the 400 m individual medley, where he won his first World Championship title in a new Asian record of 3:59.12, over a second and a half faster than second-place finisher László Cseh. He then competed in the 200 m individual medley, where he was able to rally past Cseh for the silver in a time of 1:52.80, over three seconds behind the winner Ryan Lochte who broke the world record.