FIVE WORLD RECORDS SMASHED IN MOSCOW SWIMMING WORLD CUP
November 8: FIVE
world records have been broken in the second leg of the 2009 FINA/ARENA
Swimming World Cup in Moscow.Russian, Evgeny Korotyshkin set a new global mark in the 100m butterfly on the final day of competition, clocking 48.99 to erase Ian Crocker's previous mark (49.07) which had stood for five years and set in March 2004.
George Du Rand (RSA)
established his first ever world mark in the 200m backstroke - 1:47.08 - 0.76
secs faster than the time established by Markus Rogan (AUT) in April 2008
(1:47.84), at the FINA World Swimming Championships (25m) in Manchester.
In the women's events Jessica
Hardy (USA) continues to make up for lost time, improving her own WR in the
50m breaststroke, clocking in 29.36 to improve her own world record set in the
first leg of the series, in Durban, where she clocked 29.45.
Australia's
Marieke Guehrer and Evelyn Verraszto (HUN) had started the
world record ball rolling on day one after improving the global marks in the
women's 50m backstroke and 200m individual medley, respectively.
Guehrer - overall winner of the series in 2008 - finished in
26.17, bettering the mark (26.23) set by Sanja
Jovanovic (CRO) in December 2008.
As for the Hungarian revelation, she clocked 2:06.01, faster
than the previous record (2:06.13) achieved by Olympic and world champion
Kirsty Coventry (ZIM) in April 2008.
There were also eight new World Cup records set in Moscow.
US
pair Peter Marshall and Jessica Hardy lead the overall ranking
of the competition, with respectively 47 and 85 points.
FINA/ARENA SWIMMING WORLD CUP 2009
2nd Meet - November 6-7, 2009 in Moscow (RUS)
WINNERS
|
|
WOMEN (W) |
MEN (M) |
|
50m free |
Marieke Guehrer (AUS) 23.92 |
Roland Schoeman (RSA) 20.88** |
|
100m free |
Jeanette Ottesen (DEN) 52.22 |
Sergey Fesikov (RUS) 45.87 |
|
200m free |
Sarah Sjostrom (SWE) 1:54.02 |
Alexander Sukhorukov (RUS) 1:42.13 |
|
400m free |
Lotte Friis (DEN) 4:01.96 |
Nikita Lobintsev (RUS) 3:38.40 |
|
800m free (W) |
Lotte Friis (DEN) 8:12.94 |
- |
|
1500m free (M) |
- |
Pal Joensen (FAR) 14:32.64 |
|
50m back |
Marieke Guehrer (AUS) 26.17* |
Peter Marshall (USA)& Stanislav Donets (USA) 22.94 |
|
100m back |
Kseniya Moskvina (RUS) 56.66 |
Peter Marshall (USA) 49.49 |
|
200m back |
Daryna Zevina (UKR) 2:04.59 |
George Du Rand (RSA) 1:47.08* |
|
50m breast |
Jessica Hardy (USA) 29.36* |
Cameron vd Burgh (RSA) 25.58** |
|
100m breast |
Jessica Hardy (USA) 1:03.75** |
Cameron vd Burgh (RSA) 56.36** |
|
200m breast |
Rikke Pedersen (DEN) 2:19.58 |
Neil Versfeld (RSA) 2:04.15 |
|
50m butterfly |
Therese Alshammar (SWE) 25.10 |
Roland Schoeman (RSA) 22.33 |
|
100m butterfly |
Felicity Galvez (AUS) 55.82** |
Evgeny Korotyshkin (RUS) 48.99* |
|
200m butterfly |
Joanna Maranhao-Melo (BRA) 2:04.01** |
Nikolay Skvortsov (RUS) 1:51.30 |
|
100m medley |
Hinkelien Schreuder (NED) 58.88 |
Sergey Fesikov (RUS) 51.45** |
|
200m medley |
Evelyn Verraszto (HUN) 2:06.01* |
Darian Townsend (RSA) 1:52.93 |
|
400m medley |
Joanna Maranhao-Melo (BRA) 4:26.98** |
David Verraszto (HUN) 4:03.45 |
* World Record
** World Cup Record
Provisional
leaders of the World Cup after the 2nd meet:
|
MEN |
||
|
Swimmer |
Country |
Points |
|
1. Peter Marshall |
USA |
47 |
|
2. Roland Schoeman |
RSA |
45 |
|
3. Cameron ven der Burgh |
RSA |
41 |
|
WOMEN |
||
|
Swimmer |
Country |
Points |
|
1. Jessica Hardy |
USA |
85 |
|
2. Therese Alshammar |
SWE |
78 |
|
3. Marieke Guehrer |
AUS |
56 |
Calendar of the FINA/ARENA Swimming World Cup
2009:
- October 16-17 in Durban (RSA)
- November 6-7 in Moscow (RUS)
NEXT MEET: November 10-11 in Stockholm (SWE)
- November 14-15 in Berlin (GER)
- November 21-22 in Singapore (SIN)