Ohashi Shin (大橋 信) won the men's 200m breaststroke in 2:08.79. He held back in the first half and continued experimenting to improve his speed in the second half in pursuit of another world record.
Ohashi Shin (大橋 信), 17, won the men's 200m breaststroke at the competition in 2:08.79. He did not surpass the world record of 2:04.83 set at the Nagoya Asian Games, but the focus was on the improvement in his second-half performance.
He controlled the first 100m in 1:04.25, preserving energy for the second half before increasing his speed. His second-half time of 1:04.54 was 0.4 seconds faster than his time at the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games.
He will now turn his attention to the World Short Course Championships in China in December, saying that he hopes to make new discoveries during his training period towards next summer. He plans to continue experimenting with a view to winning gold at the Tokyo Olympics in 2 years.