Race Video of Tomoru Honda’s 1:46.85 200 Fly World Record

64TH JAPAN SC SWIMMING CHAMPIONSHIPS

  • Saturday, October 22nd & Sunday, October 23rd
  • Tatsumi International Swimming Center, Tokyo, Japan
  • SCM (25m)
  • SC World Championships-qualifying meet
  • Entries (in Japanese)
  • Results

Video starts at approximately 4:15:00.

While competing on day one of the 2022 Japan Short Course Swimming Championships, Olympic silver medalist Tomoru Honda fired off a new World Record in the men’s 200m butterfly.

20-year-old Honda crushed a massive mark of 1:46.85 to obliterate the previous WR of 1:48.24 teammate Daiya Seto put on the books at the 2018 FINA Short Course World Championships. Honda skipped right over 1:48 to become the first man ever under the 1:47 threshold in the event.

Honda’s 1:46.85 from tonight included splits of 51.39/55.46, with his sub-52 second opener well over a second faster than the rest of the field. Seto’s previous WR was comprised of 51.29/56.95 showing how Honda was able to hang on to the speed on the back half en route to producing the fastest 200 fly mark in history.

  • Old Record 51.29/56.95 – 1:48.24
  • New Record 51.39/55.46 – 1:46.85

Entering these championships, Honda’s fastest SC 200m fly result rested at the 1:49.84 he hit at this same meet last year. As such, in one year’s time, the national record hold managed to hack 3 seconds off of his best-ever to establish a new World Record.

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chinnychenchen
1 year ago

wtf are those underwaters … holy

Gen D
1 year ago

It looks like lately, quite a few SCM WRs were broken with the former world record holder swimming in the same heat! Kinda cool:

Off the top of my head, in no particular order:
– D Seto, 2018, 200 fly (C Le Clos)
– T Honda, 2022, 200 fly (D Seto)
– C Dressel, 2020, 50 free (F Manaudou)
– M Atherton, 2019, 100 back (K Hosszu)
– M Belmonte, 2017, 400 IM (K Hosszu) (after looking it up, this probably happened more than once as they took the WR from each other)
– C Dressel, 2021, 100 fly (C Le Clos)
– K Dahlia, 2021, 100 fly (S Sjostrom)
– F Wellbrock, 2021, 1500 fr (G Paltrinieri)

GrameziPT
1 year ago

Amazing swimming
#smash

Drewbrewsbeer
1 year ago

Wow!

There's no doubt that he's tightening up
1 year ago

That’s an astonishing swim.

I wonder if this could translate to 1:51 or 1:52 in LCM. Tough luck for him that he has probably the two best all-round swimmers in the world right now swimming in his main event lmao.

Hank
1 year ago

Struggling to find the mens 2fly here amongst 4hr of video. Don’t see it at 4:15 just IM

mahaney
Reply to  Hank
1 year ago

doesnt work on mobile

Go Kamminga Go
Reply to  mahaney
1 year ago

It works on mobile.

I’m watching it on my (android) phone

Breastroker
1 year ago

Looking at this, it seems like he could actually be a little faster. Pretty long into a few of those walls. I could see him knocking a couple tenths off of that in the future. Picture perfect finish though. Congrats on a great swim!

theroboticrichardsimmons
Reply to  Breastroker
1 year ago

He short stroked the first 2 walls and was really long on the third, so I agree with you, but it was an amazing swim. Great start and fantastic underwaters. He was still pushing 10-12m off each wall at the end.

theroboticrichardsimmons
1 year ago

Wow. I’m sure there have been recent WR that have lopped off this much time (~0.35s per 50), but there can’t be many.

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