Overview

• Qin barely qualified in eighth, sat fifth at the halfway mark and then stormed home to win the 200m breaststroke final.
• His triumph completed a medal haul in Singapore that included a 100m breaststroke gold and a 50m breaststroke bronze earlier in the week.
• He touched first ahead of Japan’s Ippei Watanabe (2:07.70) and the Netherlands’ Caspar Corbeau (2:07.73).
• The outside-lane victory underscored his rebound from a seventh-place 100m finish and a 200m final miss at the Paris Olympics.
• Qin celebrated the upset as a “Lane 8 miracle” and said he plans to carry this momentum into upcoming events.