{"id":238942,"date":"2017-01-30T11:30:33","date_gmt":"2017-01-30T18:30:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=238942"},"modified":"2017-01-30T11:57:55","modified_gmt":"2017-01-30T18:57:55","slug":"ippei-watanabe-breaks-200-breast-world-record-first-man-under-207","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/ippei-watanabe-breaks-200-breast-world-record-first-man-under-207\/","title":{"rendered":"Ippei Watanabe Breaks 200 Breast World Record (RACE VIDEO)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Japan&#8217;s\u00a0<strong>Ippei Watanabe\u00a0<\/strong>broke the world record in the men&#8217;s 200 breast Sunday, becoming the first man to ever crack the 2:07-barrier in the event.<\/p>\n<p>Watanabe posted a time of 2:06.67 at the Kosuke Kitajima Cup in Tokyo, breaking the 2:07.01 set by countryman\u00a0<strong>Akihiro Yamaguchi<\/strong> in Sept. 2012.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m very surprised, I didn&#8217;t think I could break a world record,&#8221; Watanabe said, according to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/olympics\/swimming\/story\/_\/id\/18577006\/japan-ippei-watanabe-sets-world-record-200-meter-breaststroke\" target=\"_blank\">Associated Press<\/a>. &#8220;I want to become a swimmer who can keep breaking records.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Check out the video of Watanabe&#8217;s record-setting performance below.<\/p>\n<div class=\"oembed-wrap\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Recorde mundial 200 peito Ippei Watanabe\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4Sr3py4EPNU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Watanabe previously ranked third all-time in the event at 2:07.22, having swum that time in the semi-finals of the event at the Olympic Games last summer in Rio. He went on to finish sixth in the final a day later, but his time from Rio still stands as the Olympic record.<\/p>\n<p>The performance comes, ironically, at a meet named after\u00a0<strong>Kosuke Kitajima<\/strong>, the Japanese breaststroker who won gold in both the 100 and 200-meter distances in both Athens in 2004 and Beijing in 2008. Kitajima is widely regarded as one of the greatest breaststrokers of all time.<\/p>\n<p>News of the record was <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Zhuye2\/status\/825584813981650944\" target=\"_blank\">publicized on Twitter<\/a>, and Kitajima responded with congratulations to his countryman.<\/p>\n<div class=\"oembed-wrap\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"ja\" dir=\"ltr\">\u6e21\u8fba\u4e00\u5e73\u9078\u624b\u4e16\u754c\u8a18\u9332\u304a\u3081\u3067\u3068\u3046\ud83c\udf8a<br \/>\u7d20\u6674\u3089\u3057\u3044\u77ac\u9593\u306b\u7acb\u3061\u4f1a\u3048\u305f\u3053\u3068\u306b\u611f\u8b1d\uff01\uff01<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; kosukekitajima.eth (@kitajimakosuke) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kitajimakosuke\/status\/825584718385012736?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 29, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<p>(Rough translation: &#8220;Congratulations Ippei Watanabe players world record. 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