DEBRECEN - Courtesy SwimNews. European short-course Championships, European records for Daniel Gyurta and Yulia Efimova and a Euro best for Sweden's men over 4x50 metres freestyle.

Olympic silver medallist Daniel Gyurta (HUN) set a home pool alight at the European s/c Championships in Debrecen with a European record of 2:05.49 over 200m breaststroke, ahead of Paolo Bossini (ITA) in an Italian record of 2:05.82 and Mihail Alexandrov (BUL), in a national record of 2:06.91. The Hungarian was almost a second down on the Italian at half-way but clawed his way back to a deficit of 0.4sec with 50m to go before ploughing on a pressure that Bossini could not withstand.

In the women’s 100 metres breaststroke the world record of 1:03.86 to Leisel Jones (AUS) is safe (a slight understatement perhaps) yet, but Yulia Efimova (RUS) is getting closer. In 1:04.95 (off a 31.08 split), she became the first European inside 1:05 s/c and lifted the Debrecen crown ahead of Mirna Jukic (AUT) on 1:06.57, with bronze going to the champion's teammate Elena Bogomizova, in 1:06.72.

Finally, in the men’s 4x50 metres freestyle, the European best had been Sweden's in 1:24.89. Now, it's 1:24.19, courtesy of Petter Stymne (21.41), Marcus Piehl (20.97), Per Nylin (21.15) and Stefan Nystrand (20.66). France took silver on 1:24.98, and Germany bronze on 1:26.46. The world best over 4x50m is held at 1:23.75 by Auburn University in 2004.