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He\u2019s three tenths up on <strong>Caspar Corbeau<\/strong> of the Netherlands.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/meet\/2023-world-aquatics-championships\">World Championships Meet Page<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.omegatiming.com\/2023\/world-aquatics-championships-sw-live-results\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Live Results<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The event was missing one of the week\u2019s biggest names in <strong>Leon Marchand,<\/strong> who scratched the event. He disclosed that he would no-show the 200 breast in his press availability Wednesday night. Marchand has the 200 butterfly and 200 individual medley finals Thursday night and will focus on French relays the rest of the way.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Qin Haiyang<\/strong> is bidding to the become the first man to do the breaststroke treble since it was added to Worlds in 2001. He\u2019s already in rare territory, joining only <strong>Adam Peaty<\/strong> in accomplishing the men\u2019s 50-100 double in the 12 Worlds at which it\u2019s been on offer. (Peaty did it three times, 2015, 2017 and 2019).<\/p>\n<p>Qin is the fifth seed in 2:09.86 after prelims.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dong Zhihao<\/strong> jumps into the mix as his B swimmer, after <strong>Yan<\/strong> <strong>Zibei<\/strong> was sixth in the 100 and <strong>Sun Jiajun<\/strong> got 50-meter bronze. Dong was seventh overall.<\/p>\n<p>The Americans change it up, with <strong>Nic Fink<\/strong> winning silver in both the 50 and 100 but having not qualified for the 200 breast after being in the final of the last Worlds and Olympics). Both Americans navigated prelims seamlessly, <strong>Josh Matheny<\/strong> going 2:09.90 for sixth place. <strong>Matt Fallon<\/strong> was second to Stubblety-Cook in the fifth and final heat but still good for the third-best time in 2:09.32.<\/p>\n<p>Corbeau controlled the first circle-seeded heat with his 2:09.69, with Qin comfortably third. In between was Lithuanian <strong>Aleksas Savickas.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A three-man group went out in front in the penultimate heat, Matheny getting to the wall first in 2:09.90 with Dong second in 2:10.06 and <strong>Ippei Watanabe<\/strong> third in 2:10.11. (That was the heat from which Marchand scratched.) Watanabe was eighth overall.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Arno Kamminga<\/strong>, the Olympic silver medalist in this event, finished 10th in prelims. <strong>Erik Persson,<\/strong> who tied for bronze in Budapest, was tied for 11th in prelims. 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