
Cho becomes only the second South Korean to reach the podium in the men's 200m breaststroke event.
Cho Sung-jae won bronze in the men's 200-meter breaststroke at the Asian Games in Tokyo on Thursday, clocking 2:08.76 to become only the second South Korean to medal in the event.
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Cho Sung-jae joined Choi Kyu-woong as the only South Koreans to win an Asiad medal in the men's 200m breaststroke.
By Yoo Jee-ho
TOKYO, Sept. 24 (Yonhap) -- Cho Sung-jae earned bronze in the men's 200-meter breaststroke swimming at the Asian Games on Thursday, becoming only the second South Korean to reach the podium in this event.
Cho clocked 2:08.76 for third place, as Shin Ohashi of Japan set a world record with a time of 2:04.83 and Denis Petrashov of Kyrgyzstan won silver in 2:08.67 at Tokyo Aquatics Centre.
Cho touched the 50m pad in sixth place and moved to fifth place at the halfway mark. He was in fourth with 50m to go, trailing Ippei Watanabe of Japan by 0.67 second. But Cho found another gear and covered the last 50m in 33.30 seconds, the third-fastest split in the 10-man final.
Cho joins Choi Kyu-woong, a joint silver medalist in 2010, as the only South Koreans to win an Asiad medal in the men's 200m breaststroke.

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