Swimming: Trials Japan, Sato sets new 200 breaststroke world record

Shoma Sato, twenty-year-old Japanese swimming star, has established the new world record of the 200 breaststroke by winning the national championship race valid as Trials for the Tokyo Olympics in 2'06 "40. Sato's time improved by 26 cents the previous record of the Russian Anton Chupkov, who had obtained it at the 2019 World Cup. "I have established the primacy of the world - the comment of Sato -, but what really matters to me is the gold of the Games". of Sato, more than a second behind, was Ryuya Mura, who also qualified for the Olympics.