BERLIN – Paul Biedermann of Germany broke the 200 metres freestyle world record Sunday at the Fina world Cup meet at the Europasportpark.
Biedermann finished in 1:40.83 seconds and beat the mark of 1:41.10 set by Australian swimming great Ian Thorpe in the same pool in 2000.
The previous European record of 1:41.89 was set by former Olympic champion Pieter van den Hoogenband of the Netherlands at the European championships in Dublin on December 14, 2003.
World record evolution (Time, Name/Nationality, Place, Date):
1:40.83 Biedermann Paul GER Berlin 16.11.08
1:41.10 Thorpe Ian AUS Berlin 06.02.00
1:42.54 Thorpe Ian AUS Sydney 17.01.00
1:43.28 Thorpe Ian AUS Hong Kong 01.04.99
1:43.64 Lamberti Giorgio ITA Bonn 11.02.90
1:43.95 Lamberti Giorgio ITA Bonn 14.02.88
1:44.14 Gross Michael GER Paris 05.02.88
In other highlights, American Randall Bal set a men’s 50 metres backstroke world mark of 22.87. Fellow-countryman Pater Marshal, who set the world record of 23.05 four days ago, was second in 22.90.
World record evolution (Time, Name/Nationality, Place, Date):
22.87 Bal Randall USA Berlin 16.11.08
23.05 Peter Marshall USA Stockholm 12.11.08
23.24 Robert Hurley AUS Sydney 26.10.08
23.27 Thomas Rupprath GER 10.12.04
23.31 Matt Welsh AUS Melbourne 02.09.02
23.42 Neil Walker AUS Athens 16.03.00
Australian Marieke Guehrer surpassed the women's 50 metres butterfly world record; she beat Swede Therese Alshammar’s world mark by 32-hundredths of a second by recording a time of 24.99.
Alshammar, second in 25.35 in tonight’s final, set her record in Stockholm on Wednesday.
World record evolution (Time, Name/Nationality, Place, Date):
24.99 Guehrer Marieke AUS Berlin 16.11.08
25.31 Therese Alshammar SWE Stockholm 12.11.08
25.32 Felicity Galvez USA Manchester 11.04.08
25.33 Anna-Karin Kammerling SWE Göteborg 12.03.05
25.36 Anna-Karin Kammerling SWE Stockholm 25.01.01
25.60 Anna-Karin Kammerling SWE Valencia 16.12.00
Finally, in the 100m butterfly, Evgeny Korotyshkin of Russia set a European record of 49.74 to become only the second man to break 50sec barrier.
The previous mark was set by Olympic silver medallist Milorad Cavic of Serbia, when he won gold in 50.02 at the Europeans in Dublin on December 12.
Also see:
Fina World Cup, two more WR Marshall and Alshammar
Nov 12, 2008
