Japan’s Shin Ohashi broke the lads’s 200-meter breaststroke world report on Thursday, profitable Asian Games gold in 2 minutes, 4.83 seconds at age 17.
Ohashi lowered the mark of two:05.48 set by China’s Qin Haiyang on the 2023 World Aquatics Championships in Fukuoka, Japan, and have become the primary man to swim the occasion in below 2:05. He additionally took greater than two seconds off Qin’s Games report of two:07.03 from Hangzhou in 2023.
The remaining at Tokyo Aquatics Centre was not shut. Kyrgyzstan’s Denis Petrashov took silver in 2:08.67, 3.84 seconds behind, and South Korea’s Cho Sung Jae gained bronze in 2:08.76. Hong Kong’s Adam Mak missed the rostrum by one-hundredth of a second in 2:08.77, and Japan’s Ippei Watanabe completed fifth in 2:09.50.
The time now goes to World Aquatics for ratification. The federation’s data checklist nonetheless confirmed Qin’s mark on Thursday.
According to NBC Sports, Ohashi is the youngest man since Michael Phelps to interrupt a person world report in a 50-meter pool. Phelps was additionally 17 when he set his first 400m particular person medley world report in August 2002.
The similar report put Ohashi’s earlier finest at 2:06.59, a world junior report, and famous he gained silver within the occasion on the 2025 World Junior Championships earlier than ending second within the 100m breaststroke and third within the 200m at August’s Pan Pacific Championships, his senior worldwide debut.
Host Japan added a second breaststroke gold on Thursday when Kotomi Kato gained the ladies’s 200m in 2:22.57, edging South Korea’s Park Sieun by 0.12 seconds. China’s Zhu Leiju took bronze in 2:25.51.
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