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Ryuichi Shibata (柴田 隆一 Shibata Ryuichi born December 14 1983 in Fukuoka) is a Japanese swimmer who specialized in butterfly events. Shibata broke both his personal best and Japanese record of 1:51.30 at the 2007 FINA World Cup in Singapore until it was finally smashed by Hidemasa Sano at the Japan Swimming Open in 2010. Shibata is a student at Nihon University in Tokyo.