Japan teenager Shin Ohashi breaks 200m breaststroke world record after Covid and fever
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Seventeen-year-old Shin Ohashi of Japan set a men's 200m breaststroke world record of 2:04.83 at the Asian Games in Tokyo on Thursday, winning his second gold despite running about 39°C fever days earlier after Covid. He cut more than half a second off China's Qin Haiyang's July 2023 mark and finished 3.84 seconds ahead of silver medallist Denis Petrashov of Kyrgyzstan; Ohashi said the illness forced rest that helped his performance.
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