DOLPHINS WIN THREE GOLD AS GUEHRER MAINTAINS HER SERIES LEAD

CANBERRA, November 10: World record holders Robert Hurley and Matt Jaukovic and Queensland teenager Amy Smith all won gold medals while Marieke Guehrer maintained her overall points lead after the second day of the FINA/ARENA Swimming World Cup in Moscow overnight.

Hurley added the 50 metres backstroke title in 23.54 and silver in the 200m backstroke in 1:52.94 to his day one win in the 100 metres backstroke to maintain second place in the race for the $US180,000 men's prize pool. - Ian Hanson reports...

It will be decided after the mid-week Stockholm meet and next weekend's final meet in Berlin.

The young AIS-based Hurley now sits in second place on the overall pointscore which has seen South African Cameron van der Burgh blast his way to the front, overtaking previous leader, Australia Christian Sprenger, with two world record swims over the weekend.

Van der Burgh smashed the toughest world records in the books when he clocked an amazing time of 56.88 in the 100m breaststroke to take over half-a-second off the 2002 world mark set by the USA's Ed Moses - just 24 hours after breaking the 50m mark in 26.08.

The Ukraine's Igor Borysik finished with silver in the 100m in 57.94 with Sprenger third in 58.05.

Because of the 40 points for his two world records, van der Burgh now sits on top of the men's pointscore on 95, ahead of Hurley (76) and Sprenger (70).

Jaukovic continued his butterfly domination, adding the 100m butterfly in a tight finish with Russian Evgeny Korotyshkin - 50.68 to 50.72 with Japan's Kohei Kawamoto third in 51.19.

But one of the most pleasing victories came in the women's 200m butterfly with back-to-back Series wins to Smith.

The St Peters Western teenager and Commonwealth Youth Games star added the Moscow win to her Singapore victory in 2:06.64, ahead of Belo Horizonte and Durban winner Amanda Loots ( 2:08.80) and Russia's Veronika Popova (2:11.57).

Meanwhile Guehrer continued her dueling with her Swedish and Singapore rivals, winning the 100m butterfly and finishing second to Sweden's Josefin Lillhage in the 100m freestyle and second to Therese Alshammar in the 50 metres butterfly - the first time in five meets she has been beaten in the fly sprint final.

Alshammar clocked 25.53 (1002 points) to Guehrer's 25.58 (996 points) with Singapore's Olympic finalist and 100m winner from day one Li Tao third in 25.78 (973 points).

The points were enough to gain Guehrer's third place points and maintain her overall Series lead on 116 points to Alshammar's 65 and South African Katheryn Meaklim third on 42.

Other Australian medals on day two went to: Sarah Katsoulis (silver in the 50m breaststroke in 30.57) and Ashley Delaney (bronze in the 50m backstroke in 23.89 and bronze in the 200m backstroke in 1:53.02).