NewzShin Ohashi, 17, claims his second gold medal of the Asian Games with a world record in the 200m breaststroke. Japanese teenager Shin Ohashi set a new world record in the men’s 200m breaststroke at the Asian Games, winning his second gold medal despite having recently recovered from Covid. Swimmer wins 200m gold at Asian Games with 39C feverSays Covid helped him rest and ‘was a good thing’The Japanese teenager Shin Ohashi said a bout of Covid helped him smash the men’s 200m breaststroke world record in a time of 2min 4.83sec at the Asian Games on Thursday.The 17-year-old won his second gold of the Games in Tokyo despite running a temperature of about 39C just days before the competition began.
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