{"id":342213,"date":"2018-12-13T04:18:33","date_gmt":"2018-12-13T11:18:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=342213"},"modified":"2019-06-22T21:59:33","modified_gmt":"2019-06-23T04:59:33","slug":"kirill-prigoda-breaks-marco-kochs-200-breast-world-record-koch-third-in-hangzhou","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/kirill-prigoda-breaks-marco-kochs-200-breast-world-record-koch-third-in-hangzhou\/","title":{"rendered":"RACE VIDEO: Kirill Prigoda Breaks Marco Koch’s 200 Breast World Record; Koch Third in Hangzhou"},"content":{"rendered":"

Men’s 200 Breaststroke<\/h3>\n

The meet and World record fell in the first event of night three at the 2018 FINA SCM World Championships.\u00a0Kirill Prigoda\u00a0<\/strong>of Russia led start to finish to touch the wall in 2:00.16, slipping under Germany’s\u00a0Marco Koch<\/strong>‘s World Record of 2:00.44. Koch was over a second back, touching third in 2:01.42.<\/p>\n

The home crowd’s\u00a0Haiyang Qin\u00a0<\/strong>earned silver with a 2:01.15. After turning in second at the halfway mark, Japan’s Yasuhiro Koseki<\/strong> finished fourth (2:02.18).<\/p>\n

American\u00a0Josh Prenot\u00a0<\/strong>finished fifth in 2:03.12, taking a tenth off his prelims swim, and moving him up to third on the All-Time US Performers list, just .05 ahead of\u00a0Ed Moses<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Russia’s\u00a0Mikhail Dorinov\u00a0<\/strong>(2:03.20), the Netherlands’\u00a0Arno Kamminga\u00a0<\/strong>(2:03.72), and Sweden’s\u00a0Erik Persson\u00a0<\/strong>(2:04.15) also competed in the final.<\/p>\n