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The men’s 200 breast was expected to be a stacked field and it delivered. 2016 Olympic silver medalist Josh Prenot had a big swim on Thursday at the Phillips 66 USA Swimming National Championships with a 2:07.69 to swim the second fastest time of the 2018 calendar year. Prenot only sits behind Ippei Watanabe of Japan at 2:07.56 and is the third swimmer to go a 2:07 this year after Anton Chupkov of Russia went 2:07.81 at Russian Nationals.
Prenot will not have it easy tonight as a lot of guys behind him are ready to pounce with Will Licon (2:08.92), Kevin Cordes (2:09.58), Nic Fink (2:09.61) and Andrew Wilson (2:10.14) all sitting in the final as spoiler potentials.
Daniel Roy (2:10.18), Jonathan Tybur (2:10.55) and Cody Miller (2:10.59) also placed in the final and could sneak into the top three and snag a spot on the Pan Pac team.
Notable A-Final misses came from Reece Whitley (2:11.32) in 10th.
2018 World Rankings:
- Ippei Watanabe, JPN, 2:07.56
- Josh Prenot, USA, 2:07.69
- Anton Chupkov, RUS, 2:07.81
- James Wilby, GBR, 2:08.05
- Matthew Wilson, AUS, 2:08.31
- Ross Murdoch, GBR, 2:08.32
- Kirill Prigoda, RUS, 2:08.32
- Yasuhiro Koseki, JPN, 2:08.45
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