{"id":316484,"date":"2018-07-02T12:50:26","date_gmt":"2018-07-02T19:50:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=316484"},"modified":"2019-06-21T08:46:55","modified_gmt":"2019-06-21T15:46:55","slug":"andriy-govorov-smashes-world-record-in-50-fly-at-sette-colli","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/andriy-govorov-smashes-world-record-in-50-fly-at-sette-colli\/","title":{"rendered":"[RACE VIDEO] Andriy Govorov Smashes World Record in 50 Fly At Sette Colli"},"content":{"rendered":"

On the last day of the Sette Colli meet in Rome, Italy, it was\u00a0Andriy Govorov\u00a0<\/strong>of the Ukraine who smashed the World Record in the 50 fly final with a 22.27. Govorov blasted the record of 22.43 held by Spain’s\u00a0Rafael Munoz\u00a0<\/strong>from\u00a0April 2009<\/a>. Govorov narrowly missed the World Record at the\u00a0Mare Nostrum<\/a>\u00a0earlier this summer.<\/p>\n

This is the same pool that hosted the 2009 World Championships where the swimming world record books were demolished thanks to the high tech suits that have since been banned. This is also the first LCM world record broken on the men’s side in 2018 and the first since Japan’s\u00a0Ippei Watanabe\u00a0<\/strong>broke the 200 breast record<\/a> in January 2017. It is the second LCM world record overall after\u00a0Katie Ledecky\u00a0<\/strong>broke the 1500 record<\/a> in May.<\/p>\n

Govorov, 26, was third in Budapest last summer in the 50 fly. He is also the first Ukrainian swimmer to hold a World Record since\u00a0Yana Klochkova\u00a0<\/strong>had the 400 IM record<\/a> from 2000-2007.<\/p>\n

Govorov won the final ahead of reigning World Champion\u00a0Ben Proud\u00a0<\/strong>(22.93) of Great Britain and\u00a0Mathys Goosen\u00a0<\/strong>(23.55) of the Netherlands.<\/p>\n