WORLD RECORD
Japan’s Daiya Seto stuns Chad Le Clos in 200m butterfly
Shanghai - Japan’s Daiya Seto smashed Chad le Clos’s short-course record in the men’s 200m butterfly as he grabbed gold at the World Championships to stun the South African on Tuesday. The 24-year-old Seto pipped his more famous rival by only 0.08sec to make a piece of history on the first day of action in the Chinese city of Hangzhou. Seto, who won bronze in the 400m medley at the Rio 2016 Olympics, recovered from a comparatively slow start to hold off Le Clos down the stretch and triumph in 1min 48.24sec. It was a disappointing silver for the 26-year-old Le Clos, the reigning long-course and short-course world champion. He had also held the short-course record of 1:48.56, set in Singapore in 2013, until Seto bettered it in style. A distant third was Li Zhuhao of China. "I didn’t expect the world record," Seto was quoted by the Xinhua news agency as saying. "Now I will focus on the 400m IM [individual medley] and I hope I can break the 400m IM world record also." Australian teenage...
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