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Russia’s Anton Chupkov broke the Championship and European Records in the semi-finals of the men’s 200 breaststroke with a 2:07.14 to move ahead of Hungarian Daniel Gyurta’s record of 2:07.23 from the 2013 Worlds. Chupkov used the only sub 32 second 50 on the last 50 to take the top seed. Chupkov will get pressure from world record holder Ippei Watanabe of Japan who is the second seed at 2:07.44.
Great Britain’s Ross Murdoch (2:07.72), Japan’s Yasuhiro Koseki (2:07.80), USA’s Kevin Cordes (2:08.40), Russia’s Ilya Khomenko (2:08.58), Australia’s Matthew Wilson (2:08.64) and USA’s Nic Fink (2:08.80) will also swim in Friday’s final.
Both the reigning Olympic champion (Dmitriy Balandin) and the defending World champion (Marco Koch) failed to advance past the semi-finals. Koch (2:09.61, 11th) and Balandin (2:09.69, 13th) were well off their 2:07’s from their respective gold medal swims in the past.
The world record of 2:06.67 by Watanabe could go down in Friday’s championship final.
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