Frances’s Diane Bui Duyet set a new 100 meter butterfly short course world record today, at the European Short Course Championships semifinal in Istanbul, with at time of 55.05, where Australia’s Felicity Galvez’s world record from the World Cup meet in Stockholm last month was 55.46. Read SwimInfo

Russia’s Arkady Vyatchanin set a new 100 meter backstroke short course world record today, at the European Short Course Championships semifinal in Istanbul, with at time of 49.17, where Spain’s Aschwin Wildeboer Faber’s world record from last year was 49.20. Read SwimInfo

Slovenia’s Peter Mankoc set a new 100 meter short course individual world record today, at the European Short Course Championships semifinal in Istanbul, with a time of 50.76 where Russia’s Sergey Fesikov’s world record from the World Cup leg in Berlin last month was 50.95. Read SwimInfo

Hungary’s Laszlo Cseh improved upon his own 400 meter short course individual medley world record, yesterday at the Europan Short Course Championships in Istanbul, with at time of 3:57.27, where his world record from 2007 was 3:59.33. Read SwimInfo.com

Hungary’s Evelyn Verraszto improved upon her own 200 individual medlay short course world record today, at the European Short Course Championships in Istanbul, Turkey, with at time of 2:04.64, where her world record from the World Cup meet in Moscow in October was 2:06.01. Read SwimInfo

Sweden’s Therese Alshammar improved upon her own 50 meter butterfly short course world record today, with a time of 24.38 at the FINA World Cup 2009 meet in Singapore, where her world record from the Stockholm leg was 24.46. See results

USA’s Peter Marshall improved upon his own 50 meter short course backstroke world record today, with a time of 22.61 at the FINA World Cup 2009 meet in Singapore, where his world record from the Stockholm leg was 22.73. See results

South Africa’s Kathryn Meaklim demolished the short course 400 indvidual medley today, at the FINA World Cup 2009 meet in Singapore, with a time of 4:22.88, where Spain’s Mireia Belmonte Garcia’s world record was 4:25.06. See results

Germany’s Steffen Deibler became the one to set world record number 113 this year, and to be the first man under 22 seconds in the 50 meter short course butterfly, when he at the FINA World Cup 2009 meet in Berlin today improved upon his world record from last October, from 22.06 to 21.80 seconds. South Africa’s Roland Schoeman also managed to swim below the now former world record, with a time of 21.87 seconds. See results

Japan’s Shiho Sakai set a new 200 meter short course backstroke world record today, at the FINA World Cup 2009 meet in Berlin, with a time of 2:00.18, where Zimbabwe’s Kirsty Coventry’s world record from the World Short Course Championships in Manchester 2008 was 2:00.91. See results