MOSCOW – South Africa’s Cameron van der Burgh has broken the short course 50 metres breaststroke world record, setting a time of 26.08s at a World Cup meet in Moscow on Saturday.

Van der Burgh shaved 0.09 seconds off the previous mark set by Ukraine’s Oleg Lisogor in Berlin in 2006.

World record evolution (Time, Name/Nationality, Place, Date):

26.08 Van der Burgh Cameron RSA Moscow 08.11.08
26.17 Lisogor Oleg UKR Berlin 21.01.06
26.20 Lisogor Oleg UKR Berlin 26.01.02
26.28 Moses Ed USA Stockholm 23.01.02
26.70 Warnecke Mark GER 11.12.98

Also see:

Lisogor Breaks Own Breaststroke World Mark
Jan 21, 2006