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| 2 | Swimming at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Men's 200 metre breaststroke - Final |  |  |  |  |  |
| 3 | Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 4 | - | 8 | Dmitriy Balandin | Kazakhstan | 2:07.46 | NR |
| 5 | - | 3 | Josh Prenot | United States | 2:07.53 | - |
| 6 | - | 7 | Anton Chupkov | Russia | 2:07.70 | NR |
| 7 | 4 | 5 | Andrew Willis | Great Britain | 2:07.78 | - |
| 8 | 5 | 6 | Yasuhiro Koseki | Japan | 2:07.80 | - |
| 9 | 6 | 4 | Ippei Watanabe | Japan | 2:07.87 | - |
| 10 | 7 | 1 | Marco Koch | Germany | 2:08.00 | - |
| 11 | 8 | 2 | Kevin Cordes | United States | 2:08.34 | - |

Question: In the 2016 Summer Olympics -- Men's 200 metre breastroke, was the race close?
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.