{"id":19583,"date":"2023-04-21T18:12:47","date_gmt":"2023-04-21T18:12:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/swimming-chikunova-sets-200m-breaststroke\/"},"modified":"2023-04-21T18:16:41","modified_gmt":"2023-04-21T18:16:41","slug":"swimming-chikunova-sets-200m-breaststroke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/swimming-chikunova-sets-200m-breaststroke\/","title":{"rendered":"Swimming-Chikunova sets 200m breaststroke world record in Kazan"},"content":{"rendered":"

(Reuters) – Russia’s Evgeniia Chikunova shattered the 200m breaststroke world record with a time of two minutes 17.55 seconds on the final day of the Russian swimming championships in Kazan on Friday.<\/p>\n

The previous record of 2:18.95 was set by South Africa’s Tatjana Schoenmaker in the final of the Tokyo Olympics on July 30, 2021.<\/p>\n

Chikunova, then aged 16, finished fourth in that final.<\/p>\n

A World Aquatics spokesman said Chikunova’s time “will follow the World Aquatics world record process of approval that any other world record follows.<\/p>\n

“Only when the necessary steps are taken and verified can a world record then be ratified.”<\/p>\n

Russian and Belarusian swimmers are banned from competing internationally due to the war in Ukraine, but World Aquatics this month established a task force to explore their return as neutrals. <\/p>\n

This year’s world swimming championships are scheduled to take place in Fukuoka, Japan from July 14-30.<\/p>\n

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(Reporting by Alan Baldwin in London, editing by Toby Davis)<\/p>\n

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