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Joshua Gilbert Downs New Zealand Record In Men’s SCM 200 Breast

2024 NEW ZEALAND SC CHAMPIONSHIPS

  • Tuesday, August 20th – Saturday, August 24th
  • Sir Owen G. Glenn Aquatic Centre, Auckland, New Zealand
  • SCM (25m)
  • Meet Central
  • Live Results

The 2024 New Zealand Short Course Championships kicked off this week from Auckland and already we saw a national record bit the dust.

Racing on day two of the competition, Joshua Gilbert took down the New Zealand national standard in the men’s 200m breaststroke, clocking a time of 2:04.57.

23-year-old Gilbert of Club 37 ripped the former national record to shreds, knocking nearly 2 seconds off the 2:06.45 Glenn Snyders put on the books in 2008.

Gilbert led the race wire-to-wire, registering the sole time of the field under the 2:10 barrier by a large margin. Sam Brown of Coast Swimming Club was next to the wall in 2:10.37 while Waitakere’s James Slessor rounded out the podium in 2:12.61.

As for Gilbert, he split 12.75/15.37/15.97/15.89/15.97/16.10 en route to putting up his new lifetime best. Entering this competition, Gilbert’s career-quickest stood at the 2:08.27 notched at the 2022 edition of this competition.

He now ranks 9th in the world on the season.

2023-2024 SCM Men 200 Breast

Kirill RUS
PRIGODA
12/18
2:02.32
2Mikhail
DORINOV
RUS2:02.3312/18
3Caspar
CORBEAU
NED2:02.4112/09
4DANIL
SEMIANINOV
RUS2:02.8011/22
5Anton
MCKEE
ISL2.02.7412/09
6Ippei
Watanabe
JPN2:03.2510/22
7Arno
KAMMINGA
NED2:03.3212/09
8Ilya
SHIMANOVICH
BLR2:04.1711/22
9Yu
Hanaguruma
JPN2:04.5710/22
10Ryuya
Mura
JPN2:04.7910/22
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The Oceanian record remains at the 2:01.98 Christian Sprenger logged at the 2009 Australian Championships.

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Samboys
2 months ago

Swimming NZ, still by far the best live results I’ve seen. Live updates while the race is happening.

PaulH
Reply to  Samboys
2 months ago

Live splits and free on YouTube…kiwis showing the world how to do it…commentary was on point also

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