US Comes Out on Top While Japan Adds 3 Golds to Take 2nd on Final Junior Pan Pacs Medal Table

2024 Junior Pan Pacific Championships

The final day of racing at the 2024 Junior Pan Pacific Championships saw the United States add another five golds to their hardware collection, cementing their position on top of the medal table as competition came to a close.

In what quickly became a race for second, Japan managed to clinch the runner-up spot behind the Americans. After being neck-and-neck with Australia and Canada for much of the meet, Japan added three more gold medals to its collection on Saturday to pull ahead of the other nations.

Turning in critical performances for Japan in securing their spot on the final medal table were Kotomi Kato and Shin Ohashi, who won the girls and boys 200 breaststroke to give Japan a sweep in the event.

Kazushi Imafuku also turned in a massive performance for his country, winning the 1500 freestyle in a thrilling finish that saw him narrowly beat out American Luke Ellis to claim the gold and shatter the meet record.

Japan came out of the competition with six gold medals and a total medal count of 21, having added seven on the last day, the most of any country besides the United States.

JUNIOR PAN PACIFICS FINAL MEDAL TABLE

RANK COUNTRY GOLD SILVER BRONZE TOTAL
1 United States 21 17 6 44
2 Japan 6 5 10 21
3 Australia 4 8 8 20
4 Canada 2 6 8 16
5 South Korea 2 0 1 3
6 Argentina 0 0 1 1

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Boknows34
2 minutes ago

Erisman 5 gold and 1 silver
Shackley 4 gold

Individual double golds for:
Boys:
Mijatovic
Norman
Kim Youngbeom
Ohashi

Girls:
Shackley
K.Kato
Derivaux

Hmm
16 minutes ago

“Bathtub” swimmers 21, Aussies 4

#needsmorecowbell…..

jeff
1 hour ago

the girls ’27 class (ew that makes me feel so old) is gonna be such a powerhouse class with Erisman and Derivaux at the top

Weinstein-Madden-Ledecky-Gemmell
1 hour ago

Only the USWNT knocking out the Matildas in the group stage of the women’s football tournament at the 2024 Summer Olympics was a more gratifying result. So much so that the head coach Tony Gustavsson subsequently quit the program. LMAO!

Swymmer
2 hours ago

Well, Australia got mogged I know they didn’t have all of their best, but neither did we, and they had home turf advantage. Not many excuses

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Weinstein-Madden-Ledecky-Gemmell
2 hours ago

The beginning of the end of Australian swimming.

owen
4 hours ago

finally, a medal table i can get behind