Poland’s Radoslaw Kawecki<\/strong> used a late surge to hold off Jacob Pebley<\/strong> and the rest of the field in the men’s 200-meter backstroke final at the 2016 FINA Short Course World Championships.<\/p>\n Kawecki won gold in 1:47.63, ahead of silver medal winner Pebley (1:48.98), of the United States.<\/p>\n Japan’s Masaki Kaneko<\/strong> (1:49.18) edged Australia’s Michell Larkin<\/strong> (1:49.25) for the bronze.<\/p>\n Lithuania’s Danas Rapsys<\/strong> (1:50.87) took fifth, followed by China’s Xu Jiayu<\/strong> (1:51.37), Japan’s Hayate Matsubara<\/strong> (1:52.16) and Romania’s Robert Glinta<\/strong> (1:52.57).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Men’s 200 Backstroke Poland’s Radoslaw Kawecki used a late surge to hold off Jacob Pebley and the rest of the field in the men’s 200-meter backstroke final at the 2016<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3915,"featured_media":47373,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[49262,10],"tags":[58802,50407,25843,28939,59805,42600,42617,24693,25298,142],"class_list":["post-233292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-meet-recaps","category-world","tag-2016-fina-sc-world-championships","tag-danas-rapsys","tag-jacob-pebley","tag-masaki-kaneko","tag-michell-larkin","tag-radoslaw-kawecki","tag-robert-glinta","tag-sports","tag-summer-olympic-games","tag-swimming"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"\r\n