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<\/a>The 16-year-old swimmer was on Heat 2 of the qualifying races for the 100m breaststroke and finished second in his group behind Grenada\u2019s Corey Ollivierre (1:08.39) and ahead of six others.<\/p>\n
According to Mike Marron of The Reporters\u2019 Academy, which writes stories on Oceania swimmers competing in Kazan, Yanai also had the second fastest reaction time (62 seconds) off the blocks behind world record-holder and Great Britain\u2019s Adam Peaty (60 seconds). Peaty, whose world record reads at 57.92 seconds, went on to set a new championship mark of 58.52 seconds after topping Heat 9 and surpassing the 58.58 seconds Richard Brenton of Australia logged in Rome, Italy on July 27, 2009.<\/p>\n
\u201cI felt nervous after all the work I put in before the championships. It was a great atmosphere, but I was shaking,\u201d Yanai was quoted as saying in a post-race interview with The Reporters\u2019 Academy.<\/p>\n
The Tsunami Saipan swimmer had the same reaction time off the blocks in the 50m breaststroke qualifying race last Aug. 4 to again place second behind Peaty (60 seconds) and ahead of then record-holder and South Africa\u2019s Cameron Van Der Burgh (65 seconds). Yanai completed the sprint race in 31.46 seconds, his second personal best and another new age group mark, erasing the 31.90 seconds Kai Staal tallied on July 28, 2009 during the 13th World Championships in Italy.<\/p>\n
The Marianas High School student managed to set a new PBT and age group record despite deviating from his plan.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat was tough. The plan was to go from easy to fast but then I went a bit too fast for the first part and I wasn\u2019t thinking,\u201d Yanai was quoted as saying in an interview with Marron.<\/p>\n
Yanai added that although he had a tough race, he was pleased with his results.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, Peaty also ruled the 50m breaststroke event after clocking in at 26.51 seconds in the finals. The Brit broke, too, Van Der Burgh\u2019s world record (26.67 seconds).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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