Rikako Ikee

Rikako Ikee

Personal information
National team	Japan
Born	(2000-07-04) July 4, 2000
Sport
Sport	Swimming
Strokes	Butterfly, freestyle
Medal record Women's swimming Representing Japan World Junior Championships 2015 Singapore 50 m butterfly 2015 Singapore 100 m butterfly 2015 Singapore 50 m freestyle 2015 Singapore 4×100 m medley

Rikako Ikee (born 4 July 2000) is a Japanese competitive swimmer. She is the national record holder in the 50-meter freestyle and the 100-meter butterfly, and the junior world record holder in the 50-meter freestyle and 50-meter butterfly events.

2015

Ikee won the gold medals in the 50 and 100 meter butterfly events at the 2015 FINA World Junior Swimming Championships in Singapore, breaking the Championships record in each. She also won the silver medal in the 50 meter freestyle and finished 4th in the 100 meter freestyle.

Ikee swam at the 2015 World Aquatics Championships. She finished 19th in the 50 meter butterfly and missed qualification for the semifinals by 0.17 s. In the 4 × 200 meter freestyle relay Ikee and her teammates reached the final where they finished in 7th place.

At the 2015 World Cup leg in Tokyo, Ikee broke the senior Japanese record in the 100-meter butterfly with a time of 57.56, and the junior world record in the 50-meter butterfly in 26.17 (both long course). She won the gold medal in both events, as well as in the 100-meter freestyle.

2016

At the Kitajima Cup in Tokyo in January, Ikee broke the national record in the 100-meter freestyle, swimming 53.99. This record was broken in April by Miki Uchida. In February, she broke the national record in the 50-meter freestyle with a time of 24.74 at the Konami Open held at the Tokyo Tatsumi International Swimming Center. This also broke the world junior record. At the Olympic trials in Tokyo in April, Ikee slightly improved her national record in the 100 m butterfly to 57.55.