2018 LEN EUROPEAN AQUATICS CHAMPIONSHIPS
- August 3-9, 2018 (swimming portion)
- Glasgow, Scotland
- Tollcross International Swimming Centre
- Meet Central
- Program
- Psych Sheet
- Live Results
- Live Stream
- Live Stream (Europe w/ English commentary)
Another day and another European Record goes down at the 2018 European Championships. Breaststroking ace Anton Chupkov of Russia roared his way to the wall first in the men’s 200m distance tonight in Glasgow, registering a winning time of 2:06.80. That laid waste to the previous European Record and Russian National Record of 2:06.96 Chupkov owned from his performance at last year’s World Championships where he also stood atop the podium.
In tonight’s race, 21-year-old bronze medalist from Rio split 1:02.38/1:04.42 to clinch gold, negative splitting his final 100 in 32.53/31.89 to secure his prize. He held a sizable lead through the end of the race, with GBR’s James Wilby taking silver in 2:08.39 followed by Italy’s Luca Pizzini who touched in 2:08.54 for bronze.
Chupkov becomes just the 2nd performer ever to dip under the 2:07 threshold, with only reigning world record holder Ippei Watanabe of Japan holding a faster time in 2:06.67. We’ll see what Watanabe answers with when he competes in the Pan Pacific Championships on his home turf in just a few days.
Top 5 performances ever in the men’s 200m breast:
- 2:06.67, Ippei Watanabe (JPN), January 2017
- 2:06.80, Anton Chupkov (RUS), August 2018
- 2:06.96, Anton Chupkov (RUS), July 2017
- 2:07.14, Anton Chupkov (RUS), July 2017
- 2:07.17, Josh Prenot (USA), June 2016
If you want to know how to swim a 200 brst watch this guy swim it. Unreal!
Don’t forget Akihiro Yamaguchi’s 2:07.01 from 2012!
The article starts my mentioning the 2.06.96 European record, but was then absent from the all-time rankings. Chupkov remains #2 performer and now has for the moment, with Pan Pacs starting Thursday, two of the three sub 2.07 swims ever.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xVRXdfEJAWI Here is the video of chupkovs amazing race
Chupkov broke 2:07 last year, and became the first man to do it multiple times today.
Anton Chupkov swam a 2:06.97 at Worlds last year.
He remains as the 2nd fastest preformer and had the 2nd (now 2nd and 3rd) fastest prefromances ever
Ya you’re right. his 2:07.14 was from semis, so he now owns the 2nd 3rd and 5th fastest preformances. http://www.fina.org/competition-detailed-results/17th-fina-world-championships-2017-men-200m-breaststroke/event-0
If you would lose the necklace would go faster.