Runa Imai

Runa Imai
Personal information
Full name 今井月
National team  Japan
Born (2000-08-15) August 15, 2000
Height 163 cm (5 ft 4 in)[1]
Weight 50 kg (110 lb)
Sport
Sport Swimming
Strokes Individual medley
Club Toyokawa High School[2]
Coach Masataka Fukada (club)
Norimasa Hirai (national)[2]

Runa Imai (今井 月 Imai Runa, born August 15, 2000) is a Japanese swimmer. She qualified for the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro in the 200 meter individual medley. She swam the 11th best time in the heats and qualified for the semifinals, where she was eliminated with a 15th-place finish.[1]

Imai took up swimming aged three following her elder brother Hikaru, who is also a competitive swimmer. Her mother died in 2008.[2]

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