Shin Ohashi (Swimmer) Height, Age, Biography

Some Lesser Known Facts About Shin Ohashi

• Shin Ohashi grew up in Japan.

• His parents started teaching him to swim when he was three years old because they wanted him to stay safe in his grandmother’s pond.

• As of 2026, he attended the Shijonawate Gakuen High School in Osaka Prefecture.

• Alongside his studies, he received training at Hirakata Swimming School, which is also known as Hirakata SS. During the same time, he also competed for them too.

• He balanced his school classes and competitive swimming national and international events.

• Shin Ohashi is a breaststroke swimmer, who moves his arms and legs in a particular pattern, bringing their hands forward and pushing their legs out and back.

• He regularly participates in the 50-metre race (short sprint), 100-metre, and 200-metre.

• Apart from breaststroke, Shin Ohashi has also competed in freestyle, butterfly, and individual medley races.

• During his teenage years, he began winning major national championships and then moved on to international competitions.

• In 2023, when he was 14 years old, he participated in many Japanese junior competitions and made a record in the 50-metre and 100-metre freestyle swimming.

• In 2024, he represented Japan at the Junior Pan Pacific Swimming Championships in Australia. He competed in the 200-metre and 400-metre freestyle events.

  

  Shin Ohashi during a swimming championship

• In 2025, during the Japan Open, Shin Ohashi won the 50-metre, 100-metre, and 200-metre breaststroke events.

• His win in the 50-metre race also set a new high school record.

• That same year, he competed at the World Aquatics Junior Swimming Championships in Romania. He won silver medals in both the 100-metre and 200-metre breaststroke events.

• During the same championships, Shin Ohashi joined the mixed 4×100-metre medley relay team of Japan. The relay combined four swimmers, each swimming a different stroke.

• In the mixed event, the team includes both male and female swimmers. He then won a gold medal in team.

• In March 2026, he competed at the Japan Swimming Championships and won the men’s 50-metre and 200-metre breaststroke events.

• His 50-metre time was 26.98 seconds and 200-metre time was 6.59 seconds. The 200-metre result was a world junior record at the time.

• In March 2026, Shin Ohashi won all three breaststroke events at the Japanese Junior Olympic Cup in the short-course pool.

• He then set world junior records in the 100-metre and 200-metre breaststroke events.

  

  Shin Ohashi in March 2026

• That same month, Japanese sports eyewear company SWANS by Yamamoto Kogaku, entered an advisory-staff agreement with Ohashi. Reportedly, he started using the company’s VEGA swimming goggles in 2024.

• In August 2026, Shin Ohashi competed at the Pan Pacific Swimming Championships.

• He won silver in the 100-metre breaststroke and set a Japanese national record of 58.54 seconds. The time was also a world junior record. He also competed in the 200-metre breaststroke.

• In 2026, he competed at the Asian Games, officially known as the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games, which were held at the Tokyo Aquatics Centre.

• Shin Ohashi competed in many races and won a gold medal in the men’s 100-metre breaststroke, a gold medal in the men’s 200-metre breaststroke, a bronze medal in the men’s 50-metre breaststroke, a silver medal in the men’s 4×100-metre medley relay, and a silver medal in the mixed 4×100-metre medley relay.

• He then made headlines for breaking the world record in the 200 metre breaststroke. He finished the race in 2:04.83.

• Shin Ohashi then became the youngest male swimmer to break an individual long-course world record after Michael Phelps in 2002.
  

  Shin Ohashi posing with his gold medal after breaking the world record in the 200 metre breaststroke in 2026

• He also became the first Japanese swimmer since Kosuke Kitajima in 2002 to break the men’s 200m breaststroke world record at the Asian Games.

• Shin Ota is his coach.
  

  Shin Ohashi with his coach

• Shin Ohashi is inspired from Japanese awimmer Kosuke Kitajima.

• Reportedly, he spends time on his phone and enjoys eating junk food, including crisps and fizzy drinks. He once talked about his juck food eating habit in the media, He said,
  

  I sometimes eat too much of that stuff before lunch and end up not properly eating lunch. I know I shouldn’t, but I can’t stop. I know it’s not good for you, but hey, once it’s in your stomach it’s all the same.”

  

  Shin Ohashi during a media talk