Daniel Gyurta Posts Short Course World Record In 200 Breast in Dubai

Daniel Gyurta Doha 2014

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates, August 31. AFTER sitting out the long course 200 breaststroke at the European championships two weeks ago, Hungary’s Daniel Gyurta returned to his pet event in the short course meters pool at the FINA World Cup tonight with a fury, breaking his own world record tonight in Dubai with a 2:00.48. That takes 19 hundredths of a second off his own record of 2:00.67 from the short course European championships in 2009.

Gyurta had posted a 2:01.06 in the event last week in the Doha stop of the World Cup.

Gyurta’s WR splits, 2009:
27.74
58.46
1:29.33
2:00.67

Gyurta’s WR splits, 2014:
27.75
31.00 (58.75)
30.89 (1:29.64)
30.84 (2:00.48)

Marco Koch of Germany, who won the 200 breast at Euros two weeks ago, settled for second tonight with a 2:01.28 that breaks his own national record of 2:01.62 from last December’s European championships.

Koch’s splits:
28.02
31.00 (59.02)
31.01 (1:30.03)
31.25 (2:01.28)

Yukiro Takahashi was a distant third in the history-making swim with a 2:05.00. Finishing fourth through eighth were: Ayrton Sweeney (2:08.74), Lennard Bremer (2:08.78), Jeremy Desplanches (2:09.53), Jorge Murilla Valdez (2:09.73) and Maximilian Reindl (2:10.08).

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