2025 WORLD AQUATICS SWIMMING WORLD CUP – Toronto
- October 23-25, 2025
- Toronto, Canada
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Men’s 200 Breaststroke — Final
World Record: 2:00.16 — Kirill Prigoda, Russia (2018)World Junior Record: 2:03.23 — Akihiro Yamaguchi, Japan (2012)World Cup Record: 2:00.48 — Daniel Gyurta, Hungary (2014)- Triple Crown Contender: Caspar Corbeau (NED)
Top 8 Finishers
- Caspar Corbeau (NED) – 1:59.52 ** New World Record
- Shin Ohashi (JPN) – 2:02.03 ** New World Junior Record
- Yamato Fukasawa (JPN) – 2:03.82
- Ippei Watanabe (JPN) – 2:03.96
- David Schlicht (AUS) – 2:04.99
- Daiya Seto (JPN) – 2:06.20
- Adam Peaty (GBR) – 2:07.48
- Nathan Thomas (CLB) – 2:08.77
Shin Ohashi threw down a new World Junior Record in the 200 breast tonight, rounding out the World Cup with his best performance of the series. He took more than a second off fellow Japanese swimmer Akihiro Yamaguchi‘s Junior standard, rising up the ranks to place 22nd all-time.
Ohashi was out less than four-tenths slower than World Record pace at halfway, although did trail Caspar Corbeau by over a second. He was 1.51 seconds ahead of Yamaguchi’s pace at this point, and extended that slightly to 1:58 seconds through the third 50.
Yamaguchi did close slightly faster, but Ohashi still took down his record by 1.20 seconds. That gives Ohashi his second World Junior Record, and his first in short course meters.
He also owns the long course 100 breaststroke and 200 breaststroke marks, thanks to the swims of 58.94 and 2:06.91 he threw down at the Kinki High School Championships this July.
Split Comparison
| Akihiro Yamaguchi, 2012 – Short Course World Championships | Shin Ohashi, 2025 – World Cup, Toronto Stop | |
| 50 | 28.03 | 27.22 |
| 100 | 59.49 (31.46) | 57.98 (30.76) |
| 150 | 1:31.16 (31.67) | 1:29.58 (31.60) |
| 200 | 2:03.23 (32.07) | 2:02.03 (32.45) |
Ohashi had placed 3rd at the previous two stops of this year’s World Cup, inching closer to Yamaguchi’s record as he went 2:04.07 in Carmel and 2:03.62 in Westmont. His performance tonight took more than a second and a half off his best time, almost all of which came in his first 100 meters.
Born in March 2009, Ohashi will have another two years at the Junior level. That could see him swim another two World Cup series, as well as the 2026 Short Course World Championships in Beijing, indicating that this could merely be the first of many World Junior Records in the event for him.
i think he might have taken over twice the strokes that Corbeau did
Corbeau is also more than a foot taller than him lmao.
When is the last time we saw a WR and WJR in the same race, but from 2 different people? (i.e. it was not a junior setting the WR)
Finke and Tuncelli, men’s 1500 free at Paris Olympics
2023 world championship and coincidentally also the 200 breast. Qin Haiyang and Dong Zhihao I believe
Probably Fukuoka 2023 200 Br where Qin went a WR and Dong Zhihao went a WJR
I believe the most recent is W 200 back at SCW 2024 (Smith, McIntosh)
The next Kitajima
Nah he’s better. That closing speed is scary!
Big call to be better than a double² Olympic champ.
Just wait and see… maybe I should’ve said will be, but he’s already fast.
Exactly. Double double Olympic winner is an extremely exclusive club with only 6 members: Phelps, Ledecky, McKeown, Kitajima, Mathes, Klochkova.
Plus, he broke 100 br WR twice and 200 br WR three times (including breaking Barrowman’s legendary decade old WR)
Kitajima cheated in Athens.
Blud forgot the GOAT popov
and what he did was crazier. double olympic champ in the sprint freestyle events
I’d say what Phelps and Klochkova did was crazier – the double double in the 200/400 IM requires mastery of all four strokes instead of just being blessed with more fast twitch muscle fibers.
They also did not include the great Hungarian IMer Tamas Darnyi. He won back to back IM doubles in Seoul & Barcelona.