BERLIN – Four World and European records were set at the Fina World cup meeting in Berlin on Saturday evening, the opening day of the event.
South Africa's Cameron van der Burgh broke his own world record to take gold in the men's 50m breaststroke.
The world champion clocked 25.25 seconds to beat the mark of 25.43 he set at the national championships last August.
World record evolution (Time, Name/Nationality, Place, Date):
25.25 Cameron van der Burgh RSA Berlin 14.11.09
25.43 Cameron van der Burgh RSA Pietermaritzburg 08.08.09
25.94 Cameron van der Burgh RSA Stockholm 11.11.08
26.08 Cameron van der Burgh RSA Moscow 08.11.08
26.17 Oleg Lisogor UKR Berlin 21.01.06
26.20 Oleg Lisogor UKR Berlin 26.01.02
Australian star Leisel Jones smashed the world record in the women’s 100 metres breaststroke.
She clocked 1:03.00 to shave 0.72 seconds off her own existing mark set in April 2008.
World record evolution (Time, Name/Nationality, Place, Date):
1:03.00 Leisel Jones AUS Berlin 14.11.09
1:03.72 Leisel Jones AUS Canberra 26.04.08
1:03.86 Leisel Jones AUS Hobart 28.08.06
1:04.12 Leisel Jones AUS Hobart 27.08.06
1:04.79 Tara Kirk USA College Station 19.03.04
Germany's Paul Biedermann set a world record to win the men's 400 metres freestyle and erased Australian swimming legends Grant Hackett and Ian Thorpe from the record books.
Biedermann swam 3:32.77 to beat Hackett 2002 mark by 1.81 second while Thorpe’s previous Competition record for the event was 3:34.63 (Stockholm January 21, 2003).
World record evolution (Time, Name/Nationality, Place, Date):
3:32.77 Paul Biedermann GER Berlin 14.11.09
3:34.58 Grant Hackett AUS Sydney 18.07.02
3:35.01 Grant Hackett AUS Hong Kong 01.04.99
3:39.82 Ian Thorpe AUS Perth 25.09.98
3:40.46 Danyon Loader NZL 02.11.95
Germany's Steffen Deibler broke his own world record in the men's 50m butterfly, clocking 21.80 seconds, 0.26sec better than the mark he set last month in Aachen.
World record evolution (Time, Name/Nationality, Place, Date):
21.80 Steffen Deibler GER Berlin 14.11.09
22.06 Steffen Deibler GER Aachen 24.10.09
22.18 Amaury Leveaux FRA Rijeka 14.12.08
22.29 Amaury Leveaux FRA Angers 06.12.08
Diane Bui Duyet of France reclaimed the 100 metres butterfly European record placing second in 55.62.
The former mark was set by Therese Alshammar at the world cup meeting in Durban.
European record evolution (Time, Name/Nationality, Place, Date):
55.84 Diane Bui-Duyet FRA Berlin 14.11.09
56.12 Therese Alshammar SWE Durban 16.10.09
56.50 Diane Bui-Duyet FRA La Réunion 28.12.08
56.55 Martina Moravcova SVK Berlin 26.01.02
Germany’s Daniela Samulski set the new women’s 50m backstroke European mark finishing second in 26.21 [behind Australian Marieke Guehrer, 26.09] shaving shaving 0.02 off the time set by Sanja Jovanovic, winning gold at the European championships in Rijeka.
European record evolution (Time, Name/Nationality, Place, Date):
26.21 Daniela Samulski GER Berlin 14.11.09
26.23 Jovanovic Sanja CRO Rijeka 13.12.08
26.37 Jovanovic Sanja CRO Manchester 13.04.08
26.50 Jovanovic Sanja CRO Debrecen 15.12.07
Finally, Melquiades Alvarez of Spain broke the European record in the 200 metres breaststroke winning with the new mark of 2:02.67.
He took 0.79 of a second off his personal best recorded at the Spanish Cup Trophy in April.
European record evolution (Time, Name/Nationality, Place, Date):
2:02.67 Melquiades Álvarez Caraballo ESP Berlin 14.11.09
2:03.46 Melquiades Álvarez Caraballo ESP Sabadell 17.04.09
2:04.59 Duboscq Hugues FRA Rijeka 14.12.08
2:05.02 Giorgetti Edoardo ITA Genoa 28.11.08
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