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MEN’S 200M BREASTSTROKE – FINALS
2013 World Champion: Daniel Gyurta, HUN – 2:07.23
World Record: 2:07.01 – Akihiro Yamaguchi, JPN – 2012
Championship Record:2:07.23 – Daniel Gyurta, HUN – 2013
GOLD: Marco Koch, GER – 2:07.76
SILVER: Kevin Cordes, USA – 2:08.05
BRONZE: Daniel Gyurta, HUN – 2:08.10
Marco Koch won Germany’s first Gold medal of the championships with a 2:07.76. He lead Kevin Cordes, the silver medalist, and Daniel Gyurta, the current world record holder and bronze medalist to the wall. Cordes finished with a 2:08.05 and Gyurta finished third at 2:08.10.
Great Britain’s Stephen Willis just missed the podium with a 2:08.52. He was the final swimmer under 2:09.
Yasuhiro Koseki, Dimitry Balandin, and Anton Chupkov and finished fifth through seventh with 2:09’s and Mao Feilian rounded out the final with a 2:10.02.
Nice swim Kevin Cordes! Smooth, powerful, controlled, good tactics, well done.
Where are all his American detractors? Relay disqualifications, can’t swim fast in a final in individual, is fragile mentally….
Cordes has a tremendous meet so far.
Great relay splits. 3rd in the 50 breast. 2nd in the 200 breast. If he had swum the 100 breast, I’m sure he would have finished 3rd behind Peaty and CVDB.
That guy is on a golden track for Rio.
I hope he is going back to Singapore to continue his training with Sergio. Keep doing what you doing Kev!
Of course he stays there!
The work with Mr Lopez starts to pay off. Just the beginning.
Cordes is judy starting to get meters. It was nice to see him drop time in each swim. For the first 3 laps of the race, most of the competitors took 3 strokes to his 2. If he continues working on meters exclusively, I could see him doing some interesting things. I think he has the raw skills to dominate, but not sure if he can do it before Rio.
Seems like Cordes could improve his pullouts and drop even more.