World Masters Championships: Another World Record Update

PERTH, Australia, April 23. ANOTHER batch of records have been made available at the 2008 FINA World Masters Championships held in Perth.

The following are the world records that have been broken or tied since our last update:

Women's 50 breaststroke
50-54
New Record: Jenny Whiteley, 50, Australia, 36.19, 4/21/2008
Old Record: Melinda Mann, U.S., 37.51, 8/7/2006
(Note: Second-place Jan Clarkson, 50, of Australia also cleared the former record with a 36.73.)

75-79
New Record: Eliane Pellis, 75, Belgium, 47.27, 4/21/2008
Old Record: Edith Bohm, Germany, 47.59, 7/20/2003

Men's 50 breaststroke
40-44
New Record: Alberto Montini, 40, Italy, 30.34, 4/21/2008
Old Record: Volodymyr Pylypchenko, Ukraine, 30.48, 6/12/2005

55-59
New Record: Timothy Shead, 56, South Africa, 32.07, 4/21/2008
Old Record: Alexander Mills, Norway, 33.03, 8/7/2006

70-74
New Record: Karl Wiedamann, 70, U.S., 37.47, 4/21/2008
Old Record: Akio Sugiyama, Japan, 37.93, 7/19/2004

Men's 200 freestyle relay
280-319
New Record: Hellas Masters, Sweden, 2:03.16, 4/22/2008
(Anders Soderqvist, 75, Bengt Furberg, 67, Olof Soderzvist, 71, Peter Bergengren, 70)
Old Record: Ohio, U.S., 2:04.50, 8/18/2002
(Oyakawa, Van Dijk, Florance, Quiggin)

Women's 200 medley relay
240-279
New Record: Spencer Swim Team, Great Britain, 2:30.69, 4/22/2008
(Carol Fellows, 62, Diane Ford, 65, Amanda Heath, 51, Jean Howard-Jones 65)
Old Record: Spencer Swim Team, Great Britain, 2:33.01, 6/18/2006
(Brown, Ford, Heath, Howard-Jones)

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