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  • China’s Jing Zhao set her 3rd world record in 2 days, at the World Cup meet in Stockholm this evening, with a time of 58.40 in the 100 meter short course individual medlay, where Sweden’s Therese Alshammar’s world record from the World Cup meet in Durban last October was 58.51. See results

  • China’s Zige Liu flew under the world record time and 2:03 in the 200 butterfly, at the World Cup meet in Stockholm, with a time of 2:02.50, where Japan’s Yoko Nakanishi’s world record was 2:03.12. See results

  • USA’s Peter Marshall improved upon his own world record in the 50 backstroke short course world record this evening, at the FINA World Cup 2009 meet in Stockholm, with a time of 22.73, where his world record from the World Cup meet in Durban last October was 22.75. See results

  • USA’s Jessica Hardy crushed her own world record from last Saturday, with a time of 28.96 this morning at the FINA World Cup 2009 meet in Stockholm, where her world record from the Moscow meet was 29.36. See results

  • Brazil’s Kaio Almeida crushed the 200 meter butterfly short course world record today, at the FINA World Cup 2009 meet in Stockholm, and became first man under 1:50 in the 200 butterfly, with a time of 1:49.11, where Russia’s Nikolay Skvortsov’s world record was 1:50.53. See results

  • China’s Jing Zhao improved upon her 50 meter backstroke short course world record from the prelims this morning, at the FINA World Cup 2009 meet in Stockholm, dropping below 26 seconds with a time of 25.82, where her 1st world record today was 26.08. See results

  • Australia’s Felicity Galvez set a new 100 meter butterfly short course world record this evening, at the Fina World Cup 2009 meet in Stockholm, with a time of 55.46, where Australia’s Jessicah Schipper’s world record was 55.68. See results

  • China’s Jing Zhao set a new 50 meter short course backstroke world record this morning, during prelims at the World Cup meet in Stockholm. Her time was 26.08, where Marieke Guehrer’s world record from the World Cup meet in Moscow last Friday was 26.17. See result list

  • USA’s Jessica Hardy improved upon her own 50 meter breaststroke short course world record, clocking 29.36 where her record from the 2009 Durban stop was 29.45. Russia’s Evgeny Korotyshkin became first man under 49 seconds in the 100 butterfly, with a new world record time of 48.99, where USA’s Ian Crocker’s world record from 2004 was 49.07. And South African George Du Rand smoked the 200 backstroke world record, with a time of 1:47.08, where Austria’s Markus Rogan’s world record from the World Short Course Championships in Manchester 2008 was 1:47.84. Read SwimmingWorld Magazine

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