Andrew Willis narrowly missed out on a medal in the 200m men’s breaststroke finishing fourth behind Anton Chupkov.
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In a stirring race that kicked off the finals for Day 5 of swimming in Brazil, Prenot finished less than a tenth of a second behind Kazakhstan’s Dmitry Balandin in the 200-meter final.
Frimley-born Willis, who has finished fourth at the last two world championships, was beaten to the podium by Josh Prenot of the United States of America in second and Anton Chupkov of Russian Federation in third.
Prenot and Balandin were neck-and-neck with about 15 meters to go, but Balandin touched the wall a split second before Prenot. In the 200m breaststroke semifinals on Tuesday, Pretnot finished third with a time of 2:07.78. Cordes was fifth in those same semis, both of them behind Japan’s Ippei Watanabe’s Olympic record time of 2:07.22.
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World champion Marco Koch of Germany was seventh (2:08.00). But he could only finish sixth ( 2:07.70).
