{"id":207615,"date":"2016-06-16T07:00:57","date_gmt":"2016-06-16T14:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=207615"},"modified":"2016-06-15T19:17:35","modified_gmt":"2016-06-16T02:17:35","slug":"trials-throwback-mens-200-breast-in-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/trials-throwback-mens-200-breast-in-2008\/","title":{"rendered":"Trials Throwback: Men&#8217;s 200 Breast in 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Less than two weeks to go until Olympic Trials get underway in Omaha, Neb. But before the meet, we wanted to look back at some of the great moments from past editions of the meet held inside the CenturyLink Center. Welcome to #TrialsThrowback!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Only three weeks before the 2008 Olympic Trials, <strong>Kosuke Kitajima<\/strong> smashed <strong>Brendan Hansen\u2019s<\/strong> world record in the 200 breast by almost a full second. The longtime rivals had exchanged blows over the years, but Kitajima had previously struck when it mattered most. He won gold in both the 100 and 200 breast at the Athens Olympics just weeks after Hansen had taken away Kitajima&#8217;s\u00a0world records in both events.<\/p>\n<p>With Kitajima rounding into form once again, the pressure was on for Hansen to throw down a response\u2014if not breaking the world record then at least getting close. Hansen, after already earning himself a spot on the Olympic team by winning the 100 breast at Trials, took the blocks as the top seed in the 200 breast final.<\/p>\n<p>The race proceeded as expected early on, with Hansen staying in range of Kitajima\u2019s world record pace and <strong>Eric Shanteau<\/strong> not far behind. Shanteau had been in the finals of the event at the World Championships the year before and had entered as\u00a0the favorite for the second spot in Beijing.<\/p>\n<p>Shanteau began to close the gap on Hansen at end of the third lap, touching just seven one-hundredths out of third place.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s when everything got really weird.<\/p>\n<p>Hansen suddenly fell apart, fading\u00a0from a 33.55 third 50 split to a 36.15 on the way home. He ended up fourth in 2:11.37.<\/p>\n<p>Shanteau held on to get second in 2:10.36. After finishing third in both IM events in 2004, he finally made\u00a0his first Olympic team.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Scott Usher<\/strong>, an Olympian in the event 2004, made a run at the end, but he had to settle for third in 2:11.00.<\/p>\n<p>But the winner was <strong>Scott Spann<\/strong>, who had just transferred from Michigan to Texas and had been on almost no one\u2019s radar. But with his 33.62 closing split\u2014in comparison, Shanteau\u2019s 35.07 was next-best\u2014Spann clinched a spot in Beijing with his 2:09.97.<\/p>\n<p>Spann went on to finish sixth in the event in Beijing, and Shanteau finished\u00a0tenth after delaying surgery to remove testicular cancer to compete in the Olympics.<\/p>\n<p>And Kitajima secured his standing as the greatest breaststroker in history when, once again, he won gold in both the 100 and 200 breast.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_207617\" style=\"width: 710px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-207617\" data-attachment-id=\"207617\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/trials-throwback-mens-200-breast-in-2008\/mens-200-breast-08\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Mens-200-breast-08.png\" data-orig-size=\"1150,738\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Men&#8217;s 200 breast 08\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Men&#8217;s 200 breast 08&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Photo Courtesy:&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Mens-200-breast-08-700x500.png\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Mens-200-breast-08-1024x657.png\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-207617\" src=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Mens-200-breast-08-700x500.png\" alt=\"Men's 200 breast 08\" width=\"700\" height=\"500\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-207617\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo Courtesy: OMEGA Timing<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em>Check out our previous #TrialsThrowbacks:<\/em><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/trials-throwback-mens-400-im-in-2008\/\"><em> Men&#8217;s 400 IM in 2008<\/em><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/trials-throwback-womens-400-im-in-2008\/\"><em> Women&#8217;s 400 IM in 2008<\/em><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/trials-throwback-womens-100-back-in-2008\/\"><em>Women&#8217;s 100 Back in 2008<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Less than two weeks to go until Olympic Trials get underway in Omaha, Neb. 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