Rebecca Soni Breaks World Record - 200m Breaststroke | London 2012 Olympics

Rebecca Soni (USA) sets a new world record as she wins the gold medal for the women's 200m breaststroke with a time of 2:19.59 at the London 2012 Olympic Games. Japan's Satomi Suzuki won the silver medal with Russia's Iuliia Efimova winning the bronze. Subscribe to the Olympic channel: http://bit.ly/1dn6AV5 Swimming Women's 200m Breaststroke Final Full Replay from the Aquatics Centre at the London 2012 Olympic Games. -- 2 August 2012 Swimming has featured on the programme of all editions of the Games since 1896. The very first Olympic events were freestyle (crawl) or breaststroke. Backstroke was added in 1904. In the 1940s, breaststrokers discovered that they could go faster by bringing both arms forward over their heads. This practice was immediately forbidden in breaststroke, but gave birth to butterfly, whose first official appearance was at the 1956 Games in Melbourne. This style is now one of the four strokes used in competition. Women's swimming became Olympic in 1912 at the Stockholm Games. Since then, it has been part of every edition of the Games. The men's and women's programmes are almost identical, as they contain the same number of events, with only one difference: the freestyle distance is 800 metres for women and 1,500 metres for men. Find more about Swimming at http://www.olympic.org/swimming

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1. breaststroke and freestyle are my favorite styles of swimming. im learning butterfly next, im so scared.
2. god!!!they are só fast in breaststroke!!!
3. Nagisa...
4. who else is just watching their strokes to be better swimmers?
   cause I am Rebecca has such a beautiful breaststroke!
5. Thanks mega shake!!!
6. But the Olympic pool has a special type of drag...the water is like a wall so it's harder for them to pull. It's not like a normal pool where they train. That pool has a drag effect on the swimmers.
7. If you're a swimmer, you are very intimidated by there times...it's scary...I can do a 35 ;-;
8. gorgeous
9. gorgeous
10. oh boy I have never swam (like on a team but i know how to swim like im not gonna drown lmao) but like Monday is practice for my club team which will get me ready for like actual swimming or whatever at school i guess but what if i like mess up like idk any tips?
11. My lord how many world records did the US swim team break in 2012?...
12. she's honest and she's retired at 27 years old she's
    doing the right thing
13. Nagisa could probably beat them.Nah jk.
14. So sad she retired... Would really have loved to see her in Rio to defend the title.
15. Welp, highschool swim team is... A little slower.
16. i am a swimmer
17. Like swimming
18. "2:10 won't be broken for a while"
19. Video starts at 3:25
20. I can do that in 30 seconds...
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    Times 100.