FILE PHOTO: 2016 Rio Olympics - Swimming - Final - Men's 200m Breaststroke Final - Olympic Aquatics Stadium - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - 10/08/2016. Dmitriy Balandin (KAZ) of Kazakhstan reacts after winning the gold medal. REUTERS/Stefan Wermuth
JAKARTA (Reuters) - Kazakhstan's Olympic champion Dmitriy Balandin skipped the men's 200 metres breaststroke at the Asian Games on Tuesday for fear of aggravating a recent injury but he will compete in other events, a team spokesman said.
The 23-year-old swept all three breaststroke titles at the 2014 Asian Games in Incheon before making history by giving his country its first Olympic swimming champion in the 200m in Rio.
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