Biedermann sets new short-course world record in 200m freestyle
17/11/2008 17:39
Ian Thorpe's long-standing short course world record in the 200 meters
freestyle has been broken as German Paul Biedermann clocked 1:40.83 at the World
Cup meeting in Berlin yesterday.
Biedermann's time cut 0.27 seconds off
Thorpe's eight-year-old mark, which was also set in Berlin in February
2000.
It was one of three world records to fall on day two of the event as
American Randall Bal broke the four-day old short course world record for the
50m backstroke with a time of 22.87, also yesterday.
The former record of the
50m backstroke was 23.05 seconds, set by Bal's American teammate Peter Marshall
last Wednesday in Stockholm.
Australian Marieke Guehrer broke an equally
shortlived world record, clocking 24.99 in the women's 50m butterfly to go well
inside the time of 25.31 set by Therese Alshammar of Sweden this
week.
Xinhua
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