Kosuke Hagino Ends Ryan Lochte’s Eight-Year Reign Over 200 IM at Worlds – Video

DOHA – Kosuke Hagino ended Ryan Lochte’s four-meet reign over the men’s 200 IM with a comeback win at the FINA World Short Course Championships. Watch Video

Hagino, Swimming World’s World Swimmer of the Year, overtook Lochte in the freestyle leg, 26.64 to 27.50, to win the 200 IM title, 1:50.47 to 1:51.31.

Lochte entered the race as the four-time winner in the event with wins in 2006, 2008, 2010 and 2012. He had been looking to join James Hickman of Great Britain as the only five-time winner of an event. Hickman won the 200 fly in 1997, 1999, 2000, 2002 and 2004. He was helped by that 1999-2000 one-year transition, compared to Lochte’s wins all coming during two-year spans.

Hagino’s 1:50.47 downed his Asian and Japanese record of 1:51.27 set in Tokyo on this year’s FINA World Cup tour. That time also had been the fastest time in the world this year.

Lochte, meanwhile, moved to second in the world as he time eclipsed the 1:51.56 posted by Chad le Clos at the Dubai stop of the FINA World Cup.

Japan’s Daiya Seto snared bronze with a time of 1:51.79 to become just the fourth 1:51 swimmer of the year.

Brazil’s Henrique Rodrigues (1:52.63), Germany’s Philip Heintz (1:52.81), Poland’s Marcin Cieslak (1:53.91), Portugal’s Diogo Carvalho (1:54.03) and Israel’s Yakov Yan Toumarkin (1:54.36) placed fourth through eighth.

Name	50	100	150	200
Hagino	24.18	51.56	1:23.83	1:50.47
Lochte	24.06	51.35	1:23.81	1:51.31
Seto	24.17	52.35	1:24.56	1:51.79

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