2025 MARE NOSTRUM – CANET
Shin Ohashi continued to enhance his standing because the quickest 16-year-old 200-meter breaststroker in historical past throughout the remaining session of the 2025 Mare Nostrum Swim Tour in Canet. Ohashi improved on the two:09.04 he swam in Barcelona with a blistering 2:08.89, beating Kirill Prigoda for gold in Canet and breaking 2:09 for the primary time.
Ohashi was behind on the midway level of the race after opening with a 1:02.23, however got here dwelling in 1:06.66 to get his fingers on the wall forward of each Prigoda and his former lifetime greatest. The swim is a .15 second enchancment from the two:09.04 he swam in Barcelona.
Ohashi – Canet
Ohashi – Barcelona
50
28.98
28.50
100
1:02.23 (33.25)
1:01.36 (32.86)
150
1:35.81 (33.58)
1:35.20 (33.84)
200
2:08.89 (33.08)
2:09.04 (33.84)
Ohashi switched up his race technique from the Barcelona meet earlier this week. As an alternative of pushing the tempo on the opening 100 meters, Ohashi pressed his again half. He was effectively behind his Barcelona tempo on the 100-meter mark, however his 33.58 on the third 50 was almost three-tenths sooner than it was a number of days in the past.
He was nonetheless behind his Barcelona tempo on the remaining 50, however a 33.08 closing cut up powered him forward of his days-old lifetime greatest. That cut up was a .76 second enchancment from Barcelona.
All-Time High 5 Male 16-Yr-Outdated 200 Breaststrokers (LCM)
Shin Ohashi, Japan – 2:08.89 (2025)
Josh Matheny, United States – 2:09.40 (2019)
Ippei Miyamoto, Japan – 2:10.51 (2016)
Daniel Gyurta, Hungary – 2:10.75 (2004)
Matthew Wilson, Australia – 2:11.23 (2015)
Ohashi first took over because the quickest 16-year-old in historical past on the Japanese Nationals in March. There, he swam a 2:09.35, which put him five-hundredths forward of Josh Matheny’s gold medal efficiency on the 2019 World Junior Championships. Ohashi’s swim in March to take over the rankings wasn’t a lifetime greatest although. He swam 2:09.22 final November as a 15-year-old. He has dropped .33 seconds since then.
Ohashi stays the seventh-fastest male 200 breaststroker within the world rankings this season and inches nearer to Prigoda, who ranks sixth with the two:08.38 he swam earlier this week on the Barcelona cease on the Mare Nostrum tour. Although Ohashi ranks high 10 on the earth this season, three of the six males forward of him are his countrymates. And with Japan’s World Championships qualification meet already previous, he is not going to compete on the 2025 World Championships in Singapore. Nonetheless, he has asserted himself as the favourite for the World Junior Championships if he chooses to compete there.
Yesterday, Ohashi gained silver within the 100 breaststroke with a blazing 59.88, enhancing from the fifth-place end he earned in Barcelona with a 1:00.55.
