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Japan's Ohashi Rewrites 200-Meter Breaststroke World Record

Tokyo, Sept. 24 (Jiji Press)--Japan's Shin Ohashi won gold in the men's 200-meter breaststroke at the 2026 Asian Games on Thursday, setting a new world record of 2:04.83. The17-year-old, who also won the men's 100m breaststroke at the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games, said: "I was very happy to see the word 'WR' (world record) next to my time. It was a bit too fast." Among other Japanese swimmer...

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