Swimming-Stubblety-Cook sets 200m breaststroke world record at Australian championships


FILE PHOTO: Swimming - 18th FINA World Swimming Championships - Men's 200m Breaststroke Heats - Nambu University Municipal Aquatics Center, Gwangju, South Korea - July 25, 2019. Zac Stubblety-Cook of Australia competes. REUTERS/Evgenia Novozhenina

(Reuters) - Olympic champion Zac Stubblety-Cook set a world record in the men's 200 metres breaststroke at the Australian swimming championships in Adelaide on Thursday.

Stubblety-Cook clocked 2:05.95 to better Russian Anton Chupkov's mark of 2:06.12 set in 2019 at the 2019 swimming world championships in Gwangju, South Korea.

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