Seto outclasses Chad again

26 October 2016 - 09:53 By David Isaacson

Chad le Clos suffered his third consecutive short-course 200m butterfly defeat to Japan's Daiya Seto yesterday - this time in the Tokyo leg of the World Cup series. Le Clos, who led at the halfway mark, still owns the world's best time for this event in a 25m pool so far this year, his 1min 49.10sec from early September considerably quicker than Seto's 1:49.93 yesterday.And the former Olympic 200m 'fly champion has time to improve before trying to defend his title at the world short-course championships in Canada in December.Le Clos won the 50m 'fly later, clocking 22.30 ahead of another Japanese swimmer, Takeshi Kawamoto (22.59), and veteran compatriot Roland Schoeman (22.86), who was second in the 50m breaststroke behind Brazil's Felipe Lima. ..

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