Tes Schouten Slices .02 Off 200 Breast Dutch Record

By Retta Race on SwimSwam

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While competing on day five of the 2024 World Championships, Tes Schouten of the Netherlands clocked a new national record in the women’s 200m breaststroke.

Racing in the semi-finals of the event this evening, Schouten produced a time of 2:21.50 to claim the top seed by well over a second. The next-closest swimmer was American Kate Douglass who punched 2:23.17 as the 2nd seed while Canadian Sydney Pickrem earned the 3rd seed in 2:23.77.

Top 8: 

1. Tes Schouten (NED) – 2:21.50
2. Kate Douglass (USA) – 2:23.17
3. Sydney Pickrem (CAN) – 2:23.77
4. Alina Zmushka (NIA) – 2:24.14
5. Lisa Mamie (SUI) – 2:24.62
6. Kotryna Teterevkova (LTU) – 2:24.69
7. Mona McSharry (IRL) – 2:25.13
8. Kristyna Horska (CZE) – 2:25.34

Schouten’s performance sliced .02 off of her previous Dutch standard of 2:21.52. That former mark was registered at the Budapest stop of the 2023 World Aquatics Swimming World Cup.

Schouten earned bronze in this 200m breast event last year in Fukuoka, courtesy of the 2:21.63 notched in that final. She’s been slicing time off ever since, culminating with tonight’s top-seeded effort.

Already here, Schouten earned silver in the 100m breast event. Her time of 1:05.82 checked in as the #2 performance of her career, sitting only behind her PB of 1:05.71 from April last year.

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