World Short Course: Michael Jamieson wins 200m silver

World Short Course: Michael Jamieson wins 200m silver


Olympic silver medallist Michael Jamieson repeated his achievements of the summer with a second-placed finish in the 200m breaststroke in Istanbul.

Jamieson, 24, only scraped into the final after an “awful” swim in the morning’s qualifying race.

But he battled onto the podium in a new British record time of two minutes and three seconds.

Hungary’s Daniel Gyurta won the race with Britain’s Andrew Willis fifth, just 0.40 seconds from a podium place.

Russia’s Viatcheslav Sinkevichof won bronze.

“This morning wasn’t good at all and if I am being honest when I came out I didn’t even want to swim in the final,” said Jamieson.

“I think it’s the power of psychology. I just gave myself a real dressing down as the morning wasn’t the performance that I was looking for.

“I had nothing to lose out there in lane eight as in a sense I was just lucky to get into that final so I just went for it, was really aggressive from the start and luckily hung on there because it was a really tight finish,” Jamieson told BBC Sport.



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