{"id":527834,"date":"2023-04-21T09:26:25","date_gmt":"2023-04-21T16:26:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=527834"},"modified":"2023-04-21T09:26:25","modified_gmt":"2023-04-21T16:26:25","slug":"evgeniia-chikunova-obliterates-world-record-in-200-breast-with-217-55-at-russian-champs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/evgeniia-chikunova-obliterates-world-record-in-200-breast-with-217-55-at-russian-champs\/","title":{"rendered":"Evgeniia Chikunova Obliterates World Record in 200 Breast with 2:17.55 at Russian Champs"},"content":{"rendered":"

Evgeniia Chikunova Obliterates World Record in 200 Breast with 2:17.55 at Russian Champs<\/strong><\/p>\n

Egveniia Chikunova<\/strong> routed the world record in the women\u2019s 200 breaststroke on Friday at the Russian Championships in Kazan with a time of 2:17.55.<\/p>\n

That time crushes the existing mark, Tatjana Schoenmaker\u2019s<\/strong> 2:18.95 from the final of the Tokyo Olympics<\/a>. It also is more than 1.5 seconds quicker than what had been the European record, set in 2013 by Rikke Moller Pederson<\/strong> at 2:19.11. Yulia Yefimova<\/strong> had owned the Russian mark since 2013 at 2:19.41. Chikunova already owns the Short-Course European record<\/a> at 2:14.70 and was near the world record held by Rebecca Soni<\/strong> since 2009. (Chikunova also owns the short-course world junior record in the 200 breast.)<\/p>\n

Chikuova\u2019s splits:<\/p>\n