Izumi Kato

Izumi Kato is a competitive swimmer from Fukushima City, born in March 1990, and honestly the first thing that caught my attention is that name — "Kato Izumi" sounds so clean and sharp, like it was made for a scoreboard. She swam at Yamanashi Gakuin University, which has a solid athletics program, and there's something quietly compelling about a kid from Fukushima finding her world in the pool, all the way to the 2012 Olympics. Competitive swimming is brutal in ways most people don't see; the camera captures 50 seconds of racing, but it's built on years of 5am practices and chlorine-soaked everything. She set a national high school short-course record in the 400 m individual medley before swimming the 200 m individual medley in London. She just swims. That kind of single-minded focus is its own statement.

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Izumi Kato (born March 24, 1990) is a Japanese swimmer from Fukushima. She swam at the 2012 Summer Olympics in the 200 m individual medley. As a third-year student at Sakuranoseibo Gakuin High School she set a national high school short-course record in the 400 m individual medley, and she later swam for Yamanashi Gakuin University.

Name (English)

Izumi Kato

Name (Japanese)

加藤和

Reading

かとう いずみ

Born

March 24, 1990 (age 36)

Origin

Fukushima City, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan

Height

160cm

Occupation

Competitive swimmer

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aries / Horse

University

Yamanashi Gakuin University

• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%8A%A0%E8%97%A4%E5%92%8C
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6102291

Tags

• From Fukushima Prefecture
• Competitive swimmer

Last updated

October 18, 2026

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