Tomoru Honda

is a Japanese competitive swimmer. He is the world record holder in the short course 200 metre butterfly. The following year, at the 2019 FINA World Junior Swimming Championships held in August at Danube Arena in Budapest, Hungary, he won the silver medal in the 200 metre butterfly with a final mark of 1:55.31, sharing the podium with gold medalist Luca Urlando of the United States and bronze medalist Federico Burdisso of Italy.

2021–2022 Leading up to the 2020 Olympic Games, in April 2021 in Tokyo, Honda was one of two male swimmers to make the Japan Olympic Team in the 200 metre butterfly. At the 2020 Summer Olympics, held in the summer of 2021 in Tokyo, he finished second in the final of the 200 metre butterfly to win the silver medal with a time of 1:53.73, which was 2.48 seconds behind gold medalist Kristóf Milák of Hungary and 0.72 seconds ahead of bronze medalist Federico Burdisso. The following summer, at the 2022 World Aquatics Championships in Budapest, Hungary, he won the bronze medal in the 200 metre butterfly, this time finishing behind gold medalist Kristóf Milák and silver medalist Léon Marchand of France with a time of 1:53.61. Three days earlier in the Championships, he finished in a time of 4:12.20 in the final of the 400 metre individual medley to place seventh. On 22 October 2022, he won the gold medal in the short course 200 metre butterfly at the 64th edition of Japan's National Short Course Championships, held in Tokyo, with a world record time of 1:46.85.

2023 At the Japan Swim 2023, held in April in Tokyo, Honda won the silver medal in the 400 metre individual medley with a personal best time of 4:10.37. Two days later, on the third morning, he ranked first in the preliminaries of the 200 metre butterfly with a 1:54.43 and qualified for the final. In the evening, he won the gold medal with a 2023 World Aquatics Championships and 2022 Asian Games qualifying and personal best time of 1:53.34. The fifth morning, he finished in a time of 52.02 seconds in the preliminaries of the 100 metre butterfly, ranking fourth overall and qualifying for the final. He equalled his time of 52.02 seconds in the final, placing fifth.

International championships

Personal best times Long course metres (50 m pool) Event Time Meet Location Date Ref 100 m butterfly 51.69 2022 Japan International Team Trials Tokyo 5 March 2022 200 m butterfly 1:53.34 2023 Japan Swim Tokyo 6 April 2023 400 m individual medley 4:10.37 2023 Japan Swim Tokyo 4 April 2023

Short course metres (25 m pool) Event Time Meet Location Date Notes Ref 100 m butterfly 51.95 2020 Japan Short Course Championships Japan 18 October 2020 200 m butterfly 1:46.85 2022 Japan Short Course Championships Tokyo 22 October 2022 WR 200 m individual medley 1:51.97 2022 Japan Short Course Championships Tokyo 23 October 2022

World records Short course metres (25 m pool) No. Event Time Meet Location Date Age Status 1 200 m butterfly 1:46.85 64th Japan Short Course Championships Tokyo 22 October 2022 20 Current