{"id":640202,"date":"2026-03-27T15:31:33","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T22:31:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=640202"},"modified":"2026-03-27T21:35:29","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T04:35:29","slug":"ncaa-mens-championships-yamato-okadome-polishes-off-breaststroke-double-in-200","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/ncaa-mens-championships-yamato-okadome-polishes-off-breaststroke-double-in-200\/","title":{"rendered":"NCAA Men&#8217;s Championships: Yamato Okadome Wins 200 Breast to Cap Special Double"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>NCAA Men&#8217;s Championships: Yamato Okadome Wins 200 Breast to Cap Special Double<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A year ago, in his debut NCAA season, California\u2019s <strong>Yamato Okadome<\/strong> was learning the ropes in first championship season.<\/p>\n<p>As a sophomore, things are much different in terms of the talent of the Golden Bears around him. But Okadome has shined, with some direct help from one of his mentors.<\/p>\n<p>A night after joining the exclusive sub-50 club <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/ncaa-mens-championships-yamato-okadome-rallies-to-defeat-longhorns-in-100-breaststroke\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">in winning the 100 breast<\/a>, Okadome delivered a composed swim to hold off the field and win the 200 breast in 1:48.61. The Japanese international entered as the top seed, was third in prelims, then was tops at night, lowering his best time by .26 seconds from the ACC Championships.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve been working on the 200 more than the 100 in practice through the season,&#8221; Okdaome said. &#8220;So I want to go 1:47 to be honest, because it was my goal time this season and that\u2019s the time I&#8217;m talking about with David Marsh. But 51 going out is on my plan. \u2026 I kind of died on the last lap, so I think I have still some things to fix in there.&#8221;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/swimmeetresults.tech\/NCAA-Division-I-Men-2026\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Live Results<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/meet\/2026-ncaa-division-i-mens-swimming-and-diving-championship\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Complete Meet Coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Okadome cited motivation provided by <strong>Destin Lasco,<\/strong> the Cal graduate who he calls something of a \u201cmaster\u201d for his guidance through the world of college swimming. A promise Lasco made is one Okadome is now about to cash in.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He promised me if I won NCAAs, he\u2019s going to give me the cap with his name on it,&#8221; Okadome said. &#8220;That was the biggest motivation for me. He said he\u2019s going to give the number of caps that I won at NCAAs, so I won twice, so he\u2019s going to give me two Destin Lasco caps.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Okadome was out fastest in 51.87. He delivered the fastest second 50 of the race, the fastest third 50 and the third-fastest final 50, all enough to hold off Indiana\u2019s Josh Bey by .18 seconds. Okadome had him by two tenths at the 150-yard mark and held him off coming home, with Bey looking to join former teammate Jassen Yep as back-to-back Hoosiers to win.<\/p>\n<p>Bey got silver in 1:48.79, with teammate <strong>Toby Barnett<\/strong> sixth as the final guy to break 1:50. Third was Michigan freshman <strong>Luka Mladenovic<\/strong> in 1:49.34. UNC\u2019s <strong>Ben Delmar,<\/strong> who had set the pace in prelims, was fourth in 1:49.66, three tenths off his morning time. <strong>Nate Germonprez,<\/strong> who was first at the first wall, was fifth for Texas in 1:49.69.<\/p>\n<p>Three freshmen made the A final, with the top five scorers all gone from last year, led by Indiana fifth-year Yep. That left Okadome, who was sixth last year as a freshman, the lone holdover from last year\u2019s championship final. Only three A finalists \u2013 Okadome, Germonprez in ninth and Delmar in 13th \u2013 got a second swim last year.<\/p>\n<p>Indiana was close to an outstanding morning, going 6-8-9-10. <strong>Noah Cakir<\/strong> and <strong>Alexei Avakov<\/strong> are the latter two scorers, with both Bey and Barnett jumping substantially at night.<\/p>\n<p>Texas has another scorer with <strong>Will Scholtz<\/strong> in 16th for the second straight year, though he was seeded third entered prelims. (He had plummeted from the ninth seed to an unscoring 25th in the 100 breast.) California\u2019s <strong>Hank Rivers<\/strong> was 17th, leaving Okadome as the Golden Bears&#8217; only scorer in the event.<\/p>\n<p>Germonprez was third in the 100 breast with Mladenovic fifth, the only swimmers to join Okadome in both A finals. Tennessee\u2019s <strong>Gabe Nunziata,<\/strong> who was seventh in the 200 breast, had been ninth in the 100.<\/p>\n<pre><b>Event 11  Men 200 Yard Breaststroke<\/b>\r\n=========================================================================\r\n         NCAA: N 1:46.35  3\/30\/2024 Leon Marchand, ASU\r\n         Meet: M 1:46.35  3\/30\/2024 Leon Marchand, ASU\r\n     American: A 1:47.91  3\/25\/2017 Will Licon, Texas\r\n   U. S. 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