Swimming: Watanabe runner-up to Qin in 200m breaststroke at worlds

Japanese swimmer Ippei Watanabe took silver in the men's 200-meter breaststroke Friday for his third career medal at the world aquatics championships.The 28-year-old former world record holder, who stands 193 centimeters, touched the wall in 2 minutes, 7.70 seconds, 0.29 behind China's Qin Haiyang, the current world record holder, in Singapore."It was a race I could have won," said Watanabe, who was third at both the 2017 and 2019 world championships. "I'm just frustrated. My swim got messy in the end."Caspar Corbeau of the Netherlands rounded out the podium with a time of 2:07.73. Japanese…READ FULL ARTICLE