Team USA Nabs Gold and Silver in Men’s 200 Breast at FINA World Juniors

Photo Courtesy: Peter H. Bick

Men’s 200 Breast Finals

Team USA dominated the men’s 200-meter breaststroke finals, finishing 1-2 to take the gold and silver medals over a stacked field. Daniel Roy just out-touched teammate Reece Whitley in a 2:10.77 to Whitley’s 2:10.82, due to his strong middle 100. Zac Stubblety-Cook of Australia took the bronze medal in a 2:10.90, as the only other athlete under 2:11.00.

Fourth place went to Nicolo Martinenghi of Italy in a 2:11.53, while Yu Hanaguruma of Japan’s time of 2:12.28. Teammate Ikuma Osaki grabbed sixth place with his swim of 2:12.38.

Rounding out the top eight in the finals were Austria’s Valentin Bayer (2:12.62) and Czechoslovakia’s Filip Chrapavy (2:13.49).

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Daniel Roy, USA

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Mardi J. Coffelt

8 years ago

Congratulations D’Roy‼️

Thomas A. Small

8 years ago

Congratulations Usa

TTL

8 years ago

Proud of you, Daniel. Go USA.

Isabelle Fraser

8 years ago

Daniel Roy set a new NAG record! Congratulations!’

PeteSwim

8 years ago

Czehoslovakia ????