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Back in 2017, he was just 18 when he swam at the FINA World Junior Championships and earned a bronze medal in the event. One year later, Stubblety-Cook made the jump to the senior level and snagged a silver medal in the 200 breast at the Pan Pacific Championships. In 2019, he narrowly missed the podium at his first World Championships, ending up fourth in 2:07.36, but his time put him among the world\u2019s elite in the event.<\/p>\n<p>In 2019, Stubblety-Cook was a bit overshadowed by his fellow Australian star in the event. <strong>Matt Wilson<\/strong> tied the world record in the 200 breast semifinals at Worlds and then took a silver medal in the final. So Wilson was the Aussie to watch heading into the delayed Olympics in 2021, but Stubblety-Cook quickly took the spotlight for himself.<\/p>\n<p>This year, Stubblety-Cook broke out. At Australia\u2019s Olympic Trials in June, he crushed his best time and swam a 2:06.28 in the 200 meter breast, taking down Wilson\u2019s national record and missing <strong>Anton Chupkov\u2019s<\/strong> world record of 2:06.12 by just 16-hundredths. With that race, the 22-year-old Stubblety-Cook guaranteed that he would be in the hunt for Olympic gold.<\/p>\n<p>The other expected contenders were Chupkov and Japan\u2019s <strong>Shoma Sato<\/strong>, who swam a 2:06.40 earlier this year, but Sato missed the Olympic final, while Chupkov could not replicate his record-setting form of previous years. That left the door open for Stubblety-Cook. He was the top qualifier into the Olympic final, and while 100 breast silver medalist <strong>Arno Kamminga<\/strong> went out hard and took a big lead, the Aussie did not give up.<\/p>\n<p>Stubblety-Cook was sixth after 50 meters, fourth after 100 meters and third with one length to go, but he was still more than a second off the lead. Stubblety-Cook <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/olympics-zac-stubblety-cook-strikes-australias-fifth-gold-in-200-breaststroke-in-olympic-record-time\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">promptly split 32.21 to pull ahead and swim away with the gold medal<\/a>. His final time was 2:06.38, the third-quickest mark in history.<\/p>\n<p>After that, Stubblety-Cook was done with his only individual event in <a href=\"https:\/\/olympics.com\/en\/olympic-games\/tokyo-2020\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tokyo<\/a>, but he had more business to handle. Despite being much better at the 200 breast than the 100-meter race, he was thrust into duty as Australia\u2019s breaststroker on both the mixed 400 medley relay and the men\u2019s version of the event. Stubblety-Cook responded with a succession of 58-second splits, helping Australia earn a bronze in the mixed relay and finish fifth in the men\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p>For those impressive efforts, Stubblety-Cook earned the nod as the Pacific Rim Male Swimmer of the Year. He edged out China\u2019s <strong>Wang<\/strong> <strong>Shun<\/strong>, the surprising gold medalist in the men\u2019s 200 IM in Tokyo, while 100 free silver medalist and short course world record-breaker <strong>Kyle Chalmers<\/strong> finished third in the voting.<\/p>\n<p>Stubblety-Cook is the first Australian man to win the honor in six years since <strong>Mitch Larkin<\/strong> was the winner in 2015. 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