Swimming at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Men's 200 metre breaststroke
Final
Table:
Rank
Lane
Name
Nationality
Time
Notes

8
Dmitriy Balandin
Kazakhstan
2:07.46
NR

3
Josh Prenot
United States
2:07.53

7
Anton Chupkov
Russia
2:07.70
NR

4
5
Andrew Willis
Great Britain
2:07.78

5
6
Yasuhiro Koseki
Japan
2:07.80

6
4
Ippei Watanabe
Japan
2:07.87

7
1
Marco Koch
Germany
2:08.00

8
2
Kevin Cordes
United States
2:08.34

Examining the data within the table titled Swimming at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Men's 200 metre breaststroke in the "Final" section, answer the following question with a short sentence: In the 2016 Summer Olympics -- Men's 200 metre breastroke, was the race close? Provide just your answer in a JSON object {"answer": "YOUR ANSWER"}.

answer: U.S. breaststroker, Josh Prenot, nearly charged to the front at the final stretch, before fading to a runner-up finish in 2:07.53, a 0.07 of a second behind the Kazakh.