TRIESTE, Italy, December 8. A pair of world records and a European standard were disposed of on Thursday when the European Short Course Championships kicked off in Trieste, Italy. Austria\u2019s Markus Rogan (200 backstroke) and Hungary\u2019s Laszlo Cseh (200 individual medley) set new world records while Russia\u2019s Yuri Prilukov set a new European standard in the 400 freestyle.<\/p>\n
Rogan, who won a silver medal in the 200 backstroke at the Athens Olympics, won his prime event in 1:50.43, taking nine hundredths off the former world record of 1:50.52, held by the United States\u2019 Aaron Peirsol. Rogan was in second place at the 100-meter mark, but came on strong down the stretch to dispatch Russia\u2019s Arkady Vyatchanin (1:50.77). <\/p>\n
As for Cseh, he rewrote the global standard in the 200 I.M. with a time of 1:53.46, well under the old record of 1:53.93, set in 2004 by George Bovell at the NCAA Championships. Cseh, a triple-event medalist at the World Championships in Montreal last summer, blasted the competition, as Lithuania\u2019s Vytautas Janusaitis was second in 1:55.52. Third place went to Italy\u2019s Alessio Boggiatto (1:56.11).<\/p>\n
En route to gold in the 400 free, Prilukov edged Poland\u2019s Pawel Korzeniowski at the wall. Prilukov, who was second in the 400 free at the World Champs, clocked in at 3:37.81, under the former European record of Italy\u2019s Massi Rosolino (3:39.59). Korzeniowski was the silver medalist in 3:38.20 while Germany\u2019s Paul Biedermann secured bronze in 3:39.88. Rosolino took fourth in 3:40.42.<\/p>\n
The former world-record holder in the short-course version of the 50 freestyle, Great Britain\u2019s Mark Foster toppled the current record holder, France\u2019s Fred Bousquet. Foster blitzed a time of 21.27, plenty faster than the 21.47 of Bousquet. The Netherlands\u2019 Johan Kenkhuis was third in 21.51 while Germany\u2019s Steffen Deibler was fourth in 21.56.<\/p>\n
On the female side, Germany\u2019s Janne Schaefer was first in the 50 breaststroke in 30.62, slightly quicker than the 30.71 of Poland\u2019s Beata Kaminska. As for the 200 fly, gold went to Hungary\u2019s Beatrix Boulsevicz in 2:06.62. That time was easily swifter than the 2:07.12 of Denmark\u2019s Mette Jacobsen and the 2:07.52 of France\u2019s Aurore Mongel. Meanwhile, Poland went one-two in the 200 I.M. behind Katarzyna Baranowska (2:10.25) and Aleksandra Urbanczyk (2:11.11).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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