Tomoru Honda

Tomoru Honda is a Japanese competitive swimmer best known for the butterfly, and above all the 200 metre butterfly. He was born in Yokohama on 31 December 2001 and came to international notice as a teenager, winning bronze in the 200 metre butterfly and silver in the 4 x 100 metre medley relay at the 2018 Junior Pan Pacific Swimming Championships in Suva, then silver in the 200 metre butterfly at the 2019 FINA World Junior Swimming Championships in Budapest. At the 2020 Summer Olympics, held in Tokyo in 2021, he finished second in the men's 200 metre butterfly in 1:53.73 to win the silver medal. The next year he took bronze in the same event at the 2022 World Aquatics Championships in Budapest, and in October 2022 he set a world record of 1:46.85 in the short course 200 metre butterfly at the Japanese national short course championships in Tokyo. He returned to the Olympic programme at the 2024 Summer Olympics, again in the 200 metre butterfly, where he finished 22nd.