Swim: Japan's Kitajima sets world breaststroke mark

AAP Sports News (Australia), June, 2008

AAP Sports News (Australia) 06-08-2008 Swim: Japan's Kitajima sets world breaststroke mark By Alastair Himmer TOKYO, June 8 Reuters - Kosuke Kitajima shattered the men's 200 metres breaststroke world record today, the Japanese double Olympic gold medallist clocking two minutes, 7.51 seconds to slice almost a second off the existing mark. The 25-year-old's time eclipsed American Brendan Hansen's two-year-old record of 2:08.50 at an Olympic send-off competition in Tokyo ahead of August's Beijing Games. "I feel like crying," Kitajima told reporters. "It was a perfect swim and has given my confidence a real lift.

Of course, I'm only thinking about winning gold in Beijing and if I don't win gold I won't come back." Kitajima won gold in the...

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