STOCKHOLM – Peter Marshall, Zige Liu, Jing Zhao and Therese Alshammar obliterated world records on Wednesday on another sensational night at Fina World Cup meet in Stockholm.
American swimmer Peter Marshall broke his own world record in the 50 metres backstroke. He clocked 22.73 seconds, 0.02 faster than the record he set in Durban last month.
World record evolution (Time, Name/Nationality, Place, Date):
22.73 Peter Marshall USA Stockholm 11.11.09
22.75 Peter Marshall USA Durban 17.10.09
22.87 Randall Bal USA Berlin 16.11.08
23.05 Marshall Peter USA Stockholm 12.11.08
In the same event Stanislav Donets of Russia broke the European mark after he placed fourth in 23.09, shaving 0.01 off the time set by Britain’s Liam Tancock in August.
European record evolution (Time, Name/Nationality, Place, Date):
23.09 Stanislav Donets RUS Stockholm 11.11.09
23.10 Liam Tancock GBR Leeds 07.08.09
23.12 Aschwin Wildeboer Barcelona 18.04.09
23.14 Aschwin Wildeboer Madrid 19.12.08
China’s Zige Liu broke the 200 metres butterfly world record timing 2:02.50 seconds. This mark eclipsed the previous record of 2:03.12sec set by Japan’s Yuko Nakanishi in Tokyo last year.
World record evolution (Time, Name/Nationality, Place, Date):
2:02.50 Zige Liu CHN Stockholm 11.11.09
2:03.12 Yuko Nakanishi JPN Tokyo 23.02.08
2:03.53 Otylia Jedrzejczak POL Debrecen 13.12.07
2:04.04 Yang Yu CHN Berlin 18.01.04
Few minutes later, fellow-countrywoman Jing Zhao made another world record performance winning gold in the 100m individual medley with a new mark of 58.40 seconds, and lowered the previoius record set by Therese Alshammar of Sweden in Durban.
World record evolution (Time, Name/Nationality, Place, Date):
58.40 Jing Zhao CHN Stockholm 11.11.09
58.51 Therese Alshammar SWE Durban 17.10.09
58.54 Emily Seebhom AUS Hobart 10.08.09
58.80 Coughlin Natalie USA East Meadow 23.11.02
Finally, Therese Alshammar broke the world record in the women's 50m butterfly.
She clocked 24.46 seconds at the Stockholm event to beat her own mark of 24.75 set in Durban.
It was the ninth world record at the meet.
World record evolution (Time, Name/Nationality, Place, Date):
24.46 Therese Alshammar SWE Stockholm 11.11.09
24.75 Therese Alshammar SWE Durban 17.10.09
24.99 Guehrer Marieke AUS Berlin 16.11.08
25.31 Therese Alshammar SWE Stockholm 12.11.08
Earlier Francesca Halsall of Great Britain set the first European record of the day, winning the women’s 100 metres freestyle in 51.61, which improves by 0.13sec the mark set by Marleen Veldhuis last december in Amsterdam.
Following, the European record evolution:
51.61 Francesca Halsall GBR Stockholm 11.11.09
51.74 Marleen Veldhuis NED Amsterdam 21.12.08
51.91 Marleen Veldhuis NED Rijeka 11.12.08
52.08 Marleen Veldhuis NED Amsterdam 23.12.07
In the men’s 100 metres breaststroke, Igor Borysik won in a European record time of 57.21 to beat his mark of 57.33 set winning gold at the Europeans in Rijeka
The record progression:
57.21 Igor Borysik UKR Stockholm 11.11.09
57.33 Igor Borysik UKR Rijeka 12.12.08
57.67 Oleg Lisogor UKR Berlin 22.01.06
57.73 Roman Sloudnov RUS Stockholm 23.01.02
Serbia's Nadja Higl touched home first to claim victory in the women's 200 metres breaststroke.
Higl, 22, swam 2:18.54 seconds to erase a 2-year-old European mark set by Yuliya Efimova at the 2007 European champs.
[Post meeting note: Higl surpassed Efimova's European record although Rikke Møller Pedersen of Denmark swam this event in 2:18.52 in Odense on October 24, 2009. This time is not yet ratified].
European record evolution (Time, Name/Nationality, Place, Date):
2:18.52 Rikke Møller Pedersen DEN Odense 24.10.09
2:19.08 Yuliya Efimova RUS Debrecen 14.12.07
2:19.64 Emma Igelstrom SWE Stockholm 14.03.03
Markus Rogan of Austria set the men’s 200m backstroke European record winning the race in 1:47.64 beating the 1:47.84 that he set winning the world title in Manchester last year.
European record evolution (Time, Name/Nationality, Place, Date):
1:47.64 Markus Rogan AUT Stockholm 11.11.09
1:47.84 Markus Rogan AUT Manchester 13.04.08
1:49.86 Markus Rogan AUT Debrecen 13.12.07
1:49.98 Arkady Vyatchanin RUS Helsinki 07.12.06
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