Four-time Olympic medalist Kosuke Hagino won silver in the men's 200-meter individual medley on Thursday, with Rio Olympic bronze medalist Daiya Seto placing fifth in the same race at the world swimming championships.

By touching the wall 0.45 second behind American Chase Kalisz who posted a winning time of 1 minute, 55.56 seconds, Hagino picked up Japan's third medal at the Danube Arena following Yui Ohashi's silver in the women's 200 individual medley and Seto's bronze in the men's 200 butterfly.

China's Wang Shun took bronze in 1:56.28.

"I'm not good enough. I'm disappointed," said Hagino, who started off with the fastest butterfly leg but gave up the lead to Kalisz in the breaststroke leg.

"I still have other events to compete in and I'm not finished here so I'll have to do my best in those. I just have to go out and do it," he said.

Seto, who failed to win a 200 IM berth in Rio, missed out on his second medal at the July 14-30 championships after slipping back in the final freestyle leg.

He will be seeking to win a third straight gold in the 400 individual medley on Sunday.

"I think we (Hagino and I) both got tense. It's really difficult to put on a good performance in the final. I think my condition isn't that bad so I hope I'll be able to complete a three-peat (in the 400 IM) somehow," said Seto.

In the 200 backstroke, Hagino finished 14th in the semis and failed to qualify for Friday's final, and Ryosuke Irie will compete as the only Japanese swimmer.

Earlier in the day, the Japanese women's 4x200-meter freestyle relay team of Chihiro Igarashi, Rikako Ikee, Tomomi Aoki and Aya Takano rewrote a national record with a time of 7 minutes, 50.43 seconds and placed fifth.

Igarashi, Ikee, Aoki and Takano together improved the previous mark by 1.99 seconds.

The U.S. team won their fourth gold in as many world meets in 7:43.39, followed by China (7:44.96) and Australia (7:48.51).

In the women's 200 butterfly, 17-year-old Suzuka Hasegawa, who was not able to qualify for the final at the Rio Olympics, clocked 2:07.43 to finish sixth. Mireia Belmonte of Spain won gold in 2:05.39, with Franziska Hentke of Germany taking silver and Katinka Hosszu of Hungary bronze.

World record holder Ippei Watanabe finished with the second-best time in the men's 200 breaststroke semifinals and advanced to Friday's eight-man final along with Japanese compatriot Yasuhiro Koseki.

"I was surprised because I got a better time than I expected. I have enough power left for the final. I want to win by a huge margin," said Watanabe.