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Megumi Taneda (種田恵 Taneda Megumi born September 20 1986 in Sapporo) is a Japanese swimmer who specialized in breaststroke events. She claimed the 200 m breaststroke title in a close race against U.S. swimmer and later Olympic champion Rebecca Soni by 0.03 of a second at the 2005 Summer Universiade in Izmir Turkey with a time of 2:27.81. Taneda is an economics graduate at Kanagawa University in Kanagawa.