TRIESTE, Italy, December 10. THE Laure Manaudou show continued to roll on Saturday as the Frenchwoman secured her second world record of the European Short Course Championships, being held in Italy. One day after setting a global standard in the 800 free, Manaudou blasted the world record in the 400 free, her prime event.<\/p>\n
Soaring to an early lead, Manaudou covered the distance in 3:56.79, light years faster than the previous mark of 3:59.53, set by American Lindsay Benko in 2003. Just last week, Manaudou set a European record in the event with a clocking of 4:00.20. Really, there was little doubt she would crack the four-minute barrier.<\/p>\n
The reigning world and Olympic champion in the 400 free, Manaudou was followed to the wall by Great Britain\u2019s Joanne Jackson, who checked in at 4:01.12, ahead of the 4:02.81 of Italy\u2019s Federica Pellegrini. Fourth place went to France\u2019s Alena Popchanka in 4:03.04.<\/p>\n
Manaudou was joined as a world-record setter by the Netherlands\u2019 200 medley relay. The quartet of Hinkelien Schreuder, Moniek Nijhuis, Inge Dekker and Marleen Veldhuis produced a swim of 1:47.44, quicker than the 2000 world standard of 1:48.31, generated by Sweden. A day earlier, the Netherlands set a world record in the 200 free relay. Germany was second in 1:47.68.<\/p>\n
A pair of European records went down during the third day of the competition, which has seen seven world records set. In the men\u2019s 1,500 freestyle, Russia\u2019s Yuri Prilukov notched a time of 14:27.12 to finish ahead of silver medalist David Davies of Great Britain (14:35.94). Meanwhile, Italy\u2019s Filippo Magnini set a European record in the 100 free with an effort of 46.52. Second place went to German youngster Steffen Deibler in 47.43.<\/p>\n
Finland\u2019s Hanna-Maria Seppala prevailed in the women\u2019s 100 individual medley behind a mark of 1:00.71. She was followed to the wall by Sweden\u2019s Hanna Eriksson (1:01.18) and Schreuder (1:01.21). As for the men\u2019s 200 butterfly, Poland\u2019s Pawel Korzeniowski just missed the world record of 1:50.73 with his time of 1:50.89. Germany\u2019s Helge Meeuw grabbed silver in 1:52.49.<\/p>\n
Other triumphs went to Denmark\u2019s Louise Oernstedt in the 50 backstroke (27.26) and the Ukraine\u2019s Oleg Lisogor in the 50 breaststroke (26.67). Lisogor\u2019s time was a championship record.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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