European Short Course Championships: Flash Amaury Leveaux Blasts 50 Free World Record in Semis – Video Included

RIJEKA, Croatia, December 11. THE first night of finals at the European Short Course Championships held in Rijeka, Croatia started off with a bang as Amaury Leveaux of France clocked a world record during the men's 50 free semifinal round.

Leveaux checked in with a time of 20.48 to blast the 20.64 set by Roland Schoeman in South Africa in September.

France's Fred Bousquet (21.11), Russia's Sergey Fesikov (21.27), Russia's Evgeny Lagunov (21.31), Italy's Mattia Nalesso (21.32), Italy's Marco Orsi (21.42), Croatia Duje Draganja (21.49) and Ireland's Barry Murphy (21.53) made up the rest of the championship final.

Notably, Leveaux also cleared his European record of 20.80 set during prelims this morning.

Full Results

Video of record-breaking swim!

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