Italy’s Federica Pellegrini improved upon her short course 200 freestyle world record, with a time of 1:51.17 at the 2009 European Short Course Championships in Istanbul, where her world record from the European Championships in Rijeka last year was 1:51.85.
Hungary’s Daniel Guyrta crushed the 200 meter short course breaststroke world record, on the 4th day of the 2009 European Short Course Championships in Istanbul, with a time of 2:00.67, where Australia’s Christian Sprenger’s world record was 2:01.98.
Croatia’s Sanja Jovanovic set a new 50 meter backstroke short course world record today, at the European Short Course Championships in Istanbul, with at time of 25.70, where China’s Zhao Jing’s world record from the World Cup meet in Stockholm last month was 25.82. Read SwimInfo
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