Airi Mitsui
is a Japanese competitive swimmer. At the 2022 Junior Pan Pacific Championships, she won the gold medal in the 200 metre butterfly and silver medals in the 100 metre butterfly and 4×100 metre medley relay. At the 2022 World Short Course Championships, she placed sixth in the final of the 200 metre butterfly. Career 2022 Junior Pan Pacific Championships On the first day of competition at the 2022 Junior Pan Pacific Swimming Championships, held in August at the Veterans Memorial Aquatic Center in Honolulu, United States, Mitsui won the gold medal in the 200 metre butterfly with a Championships record and personal best time of 2:07.82, which lowered the mark 0.66 seconds from the 2:08.48 set by Cassidy Bayer of the United States six years earlier. The following day, she placed thirty-second in the 100 metre freestyle preliminaries with a personal best time of 57.79 seconds and did not advance to the evening finals. Day three of four, she won her second medal, this time finishing in a personal best time of 58.67 seconds in the final of the 100 metre butterfly to win the silver medal 0.09 seconds behind gold medalist Alex Shackell of the United States. The fourth