MOSCOW – Three new world marks highlighted the second day of the Fina World Cup in Moscow on Saturday.

American Jessica Hardy set the new women’s 50 metres breaststroke world record winning in 29.36.

The 22-year-old from Long Beach, lowered her own mark by 0.09sec. that she set in Durban last month.

World record evolution (Time, Name/Nationality, Place, Date):
29.36 Jessica Hardy USA Moscow 07.11.09
29.45 Jessica Hardy USA Durban 17.10.09
29.58 Jessica Hardy USA Manchester 10.04.08
29.90 Jade Edmistone AUS Brisbane 26.09.04
29.96 Emma Igelstroem SWE Moscow 02.04.02
30.24 Emma Igelstroem SWE Gotheborg 14.03.02
30.31 Zoe Baker GBR Berlin 27.01.02

Russia's Evgeny Korotyshkin set the second record of the day winning the 100 metres butterfly in 48.99 seconds, becoming the first men to go under the 49-second berrier.

The former record for this event was set by Ian Crocker in 2004 while the European record was set by Milorad Cavic winning gold in 49.19 at last Europeans in Rijeka.

World record evolution (Time, Name/Nationality, Place, Date):
48.99 Evgeny Korotyshkin RUS Moscow 07.11.09
49.07 Ian Crocker USA East Meadow 26.03.04
49.77 Ian Crocker USA East Meadow 26.03.04
50.02 Milorad Cavic SRB Dublin 12.12.03
50.10 Thomas Rupprath GER Berlin 27.01.02
50.26 Thomas Rupprath GER Antwerp 14.12.01

South Africa's George Du Rand set the last record of the day in the men’s 200 metres backstroke, touching in 1:47.08.

The previous record of 1:47.84 was held by Austrian Markus Rogan since last year’s Worlds in Manchester.

World record evolution (Time, Name/Nationality, Place, Date):
1:47.08 George Du Rand RSA Moscow 07.11.09
1:47.84 Rogan Markus AUT Manchester 13.04.08
1:49.05 Lochte Ryan USA Shanghai 09.04.06
1:50.43 Rogan Markus AUT Trieste 08.12.05
1:50.52 Peirsol Aaron USA Indianapolis 11.10.04
1:50.64 Peirsol Aaron USA East Meadow 27.03.04

A new European record was set in the women’s 100 metres backstroke by Kseniya Moskvina who won the race in 56.66, lowering the previous standard of 56.87 by Sanja Jovanovic of Croatia.

European record evolution (Time, Name/Nationality, Place, Date):
56.66 Kseniya Moskvina RUS Moscow 07.11.09
56.87 Sanja Jovanovic CRO Rijeka 12.12.08
57.15 Kateryna Zubkova UKR Manchester 10.04.08
57.34 Laure Manaudou FRA Debrecen 14.12.07
57.75 Ilona Hlavackova CZE Antwerp 14.12.01
58.59 Ilona Hlavackova CZE Antwerp 13.12.01

Two more European records were broken on Friday, with Denmark’s Rikke Møller Pedersen setting the new mark in the women's 100 metres breaststroke in 1:04.43.

European record evolution (Time, Name/Nationality, Place, Date):
1:04.43 Rikke Møller Pedersen DEN Moscow 07.11.09
1:04.59 Rikke Møller Pedersen DEN Odense 23.10.09
1:04.71 Artemyeva Valentina RUS Moscow 08.11.08
1:04.95 Efimova Yuliya RUS Debrecen 16.12.07
1:05.11 Igelstrom Emma SWE Stockholm 16.03.03

Finally, Russia’s Sergey Fesikov set the men’s 100 metres individual medley record.

Fesikov, 20, touched in 51.45 seconds improving the previous mark of 51.97 set by Peter Mankoc last year in Rijeka.

European record evolution (Time, Name/Nationality, Place, Date):
51.45 Sergey Fesikov RUS Moscow 07.11.09
51.97 Peter Mankoc SLO Rijeka 14.12.08
52.21 Peter Mankoc SLO Manchester 13.04.08
52.58 Thomas Rupprath GER Berlin 25.01.03

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