Yamaguchi Clocks 2:07.01 WR in Japan

Yamaguchi Clocks 2:07.01 WR in Japan.......and a recap of World Marks since January 2010
 
by Craig Lord of SwimNews

Japan's Akihiro Yamaguchi has set his sights on matching four-times Olympic champion Kosuke Kitajima after breaking the 200 metres world record today: he broke the mark of Hungarian Olympic champion Daniel Gyurta in 2:07.01 at Nagaragawa Swimming Plaza in Gifu Prefecture.

"I am looking forward to next year's world championships," the 18-year-old schoolboy world junior champion told the Kyodo news agency after his record swim at the National Sports Festival. "I want to be a successor to Kitajima-san, a swimmer I look up to. I think I can cut it in the 200 at the world level and want to challenge in the 100, too."

Yamaguchi's top 10:

•2:07.01 2012
•2:07.84 2012
•2:08.03 2012
•2:09.22 2012
•2:09.70 2012
•2:10.41 2012
•2:11.50 2011
•2:11.70 2011
•2:11.95 2009
•2:12.03 2010


Yamaguchi's effort will only be confirmed as a world record if doping control followed his swim. Confirmation of that will have to be filed to FINA with the world-record submission papers.

Kitajima, who will be 30 next Saturday, won the 100 and 200 metres breaststroke double at the Athens and Beijing Olympics but finished outside the medals in both events in London.

Yamaguchi narrowly missed out on a trip to the Olympics but had already marked himself out as a talent to watch by clocking faster times in winning last month's Japanese high school championships than Kitajima managed in London.

 

Status Report: World & Textile Records  

File Updated on September 15, 2012 at this link:  http://www.swimnews.com/News/view/8589

Shiny suits were banned on January 1, 2010 but the times set in them survive. Progress is being made, with a new set of standards for the sport unfolding before our eyes regardless of whether officialdom wishes to acknowledge it or not. Some are setting textile bests, a few wiping out shiny suit standards.

At the London 2012 Olympics, by the end of day 5, five world records had fallen and nine further world textile best times had been established by swimmers whose standards will not be officially recognised.

A month after the Olympic Games, Japan's Akihiro Yamaguchi clocked 2:07.01 over 200m breaststroke.

Here's the latest score of global standards (world records that beat a shiny suit time in bold, London textile bests in italics):

Men

Freestyle

  • 50m:  21.36 Frederick Bousquet (FRA) 2010 (23rd best performance all suits)
  • 100m: 47.10 James Magnussen (AUS) 2012 Adelaide AUS Olympic trials (5th)
  • 200m: 1:43.14 Yannick Agnel  (FRA) London July 30 2012 (3rd)
  • 400m: 3:40.08 Ian Thorpe (AUS) 2002 (2nd)
  • 800m: 7:38.57 Sun Yang (CHN) Shanghai 2011 (3rd)
  • 1500: 14:31.02 Sun Yang  (CHN) Aug 4, 2012 London

Backstroke

  • 50m:  24.07 Camille Lacourt (FRA) 2010 (2nd)
  • 100m: 52.08 Matt Grevers (USA) 2012 (2nd)
  • 200m: 1:52.96 Ryan Lochte  (USA) Shanghai 2011 (3rd)

Breaststroke

  • 50m:  26.87 Felipe Franca (BRA) Rio 2012 (7th)
  • 100m: 58.46 Cameron van der Burgh (RSA) London July 29 2012   
  • 200m: 2:07.01 Akihiro Yamaguchi (JPN) Gifu Prefecture Sept 15, 2012 
  • (latter inside - 2:07.28 Daniel Gyurta (HUN) 2012) 

Butterfly

  • 50m:  22.76 Cesar Cielo (BRA) Rio 2012 (10th)
  • 100m: 50.40 Ian Crocker (USA) 2005 (5th)
  • 200m: 1:52.09 Michael Phelps (USA) 2007 (3rd)

Medley

  • 200m: 1:54.00 Ryan Lochte (USA) 2010 (1st) The first event in which shiny suit standards were sunk
  • 400m: 4:05.14 Ryan Lochte (USA) London July 28, 2012 (2nd)

Relays

  • 4x100m free: 3:09.93 USA London July 29, 2012 (5th)
  • 4x200m free: 6:59.70 USA London July 31, 2010 (4th)
  • 4x100m medley: 3:30.68 USA 2004 (15th)

Women:

Freestyle

  • 50m:  24.05 Ranomi Kromowidjojo (NED) Aug 4 2012, London
  • 100m: 52.75 Ranomi Kromowidjojo (NED) Eindhoven April 13 2012 (5th) - 52.99* Libby Lenton (AUS) 2007 (13th)
  • 200m: 1:53.61 Allison Schmitt (USA) London July 31, 2012 (2nd) 
  • 400m: 4:01.13 Camille Muffat (FRA) Dunkirk March 2012, French trials  (7th)
  • 800m: 8:14.63 Katie Ledecky (USA) August 3 2012 London (2nd)
  • 1500: 15:42.54 Kate Ziegler (USA) 2007 (WR)

*- time was never ratified as a world record because Lenton (later Trickett) raced in a lane next to Michael Phelps in a mixed relay in contravention of FINA rules governing the conditions under which world records may be established.

Backstroke

  • 50m:  27.45 Gao Chang (CHN) 2010 (10th)
  • 100m: 58.23 Emily Seebohm (AUS) London July 29 2012 (3rd)
  • 200m: 2:04.06 Melissa Franklin (USA) August 3, 2012 London 

Breaststroke

  • 50m:  30.03 Jessica Hardy (USA) 2010 (3rd)
  • 100m: 1:04.91 Rebecca Soni (USA) Shanghai 2011 (3rd) 
  • 200m: 2:19.59 Rebecca Soni (USA) London August 2, 2012 

Butterfly

  • 50m:  25.29 Jeanette Ottesen (DEN) Rio 2012 (4th)
  • 100m: 55.98 Dana Vollmer  (USA) London July 29, 2012 
  • 200m: 2:04.06 Jiao Liuyang (CHN) 2012 (4th)

Medley:

  • 200m: 2:07.57 Ye Shiwen (CHN) London, July 31, 2012 (5th)
  • 400m: 4:28.43 Ye Shiwen (CHN) London, July 28, 2012 

Relays

  • 4x100m free: 3:33.15 (AUS) 2012 London 2011 (4th)
  • 4x200m free: 7:46.14 (USA) 2011 Shanghai 2011 (6th)
  • 4x100m medley: 3:52.05 (USA) Aug 4, 2012 London
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