Asian Games 2026: 17-year-old Ohashi Shin breaks world report in males’s 200m breaststroke

Japan’s 17-year-old Ohashi Shin made historical past on the Asian Games 2026, on Thursday (24 September), turning into the primary man to interrupt the two:05 barrier within the males’s 200m breaststroke as he set a brand new world report.

Touching the wall in entrance of a house crowd in 2:04:83, the teenage prodigy took greater than a second off the earlier time set by Qin Haiyang, and much more off Leon Marchand’s Olympic report that earned Paris 2024 gold.

“I’m so happy with this result,” Shin mentioned afterwards.

“I think being in Japan was a huge reason for making this possible and I just want to thank everyone first and foremost.”

After taking a joint gold within the 100m earlier within the week, regardless of the results of a chilly, Shin had been constructing in direction of this second.

Last month, he lowered his personal junior world – and senior nationwide – report within the 100m on his senior worldwide debut on the Pan Pacific Swimming Championships.

“I had an issue before the Games started (with a cold), and I wasn’t sure if I could do it here,” he continued. “But I managed this time thanks to all the support I had. My results this summer weren’t very good and it taught me a lesson in just how difficult international meets are.”

On Thursday, he grew to become the primary Japanese swimmer to interrupt the 200m breaststroke world report at an Asian Games since Olympic nice Kosuke Kitajima in 2002, seven years earlier than Shin was born.

With arms aloft, {the teenager} bowed to his residence crowd, his mission full after an exemplary run.