2016 U.S. Olympic Trials
- Sunday June 26th-Sunday July 3rd, 2016
- Century Link Center – Omaha, Nebraska
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Kevin Cordes of Fox Valley set a new U.S. Open record in the 200 breaststroke semifinals today, clocking in at 2:07.81 to take down his own previous record, a 2:07.86 from September of 2014.
Cordes’s 50 splits from his swim tonight were 28.89, 32.18, 32.93, and 33.81; his 100 splits were 1:01.07 and 1:06.79.
He is the second-fastest American 200 breaststroker in history, behind only Eric Shanteau, who swam his record performance at the suit-era 2009 World Championships in Rome, Italy.
Tomorrow, Cordes will fight for another event on the Olympic team; he already took down the American and U.S. Open records in the semifinals of the 100 breast, then winning the event for a spot on the Olympic team.
He is also second in the world this year behind Germany’s Marco Koch, who went 2:07.69 at the January Euro Meet in Luxembourg.
2015-2016 LCM Men 200 BREAST
PRENOT
2.07.17
| 2 | Ippei WATANABE | JPN | 2.07.22*OR | 08/09 |
| 3 | Dmitriy BALANDIN | KAZ | 2.07.46 | 08/10 |
| 4 | Marco KOCH | GER | 2.07.69 | 01/30 |
| 5 | Anton CHUPKOV | RUS | 2.07.70 | 08/10 |
Tomorrow, Cordes will have Josh Prenot right on his tail. The Cal standout also played with world record pace through 150 meters prior to falling short and ultimately touching in at 2:08.41.
Cordes changes his last lap to sprint mode, but his splits show his 3rd 50 is about a second faster than his 4th. If you convert his SCY times to LCM meters, he could go 2:05. What a stroke!
He’s hot. That’s all I wanna say
My bad nvm
Awesome! Keep it up and he’ll get that WR and Gold, Victor Davis style!
Never heard of Victor Davis until you paid tribute…..I know him now. RIP Victor the former WR holder and Olympic/World 200m breastroke champ! Will have to watch the biography.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Davis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFFKEukC8Tc
Here’s the one to watch: on Baumann and Davis, 1982
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jHkIxud968
Cordes was 2:07.76 in 2014….. That’s the open record
Nope, he was a 2:07.86 at Summer Nats in 2014 as the previous US Open record.