﻿{"id":601661,"date":"2024-12-12T13:51:25","date_gmt":"2024-12-12T20:51:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=601661"},"modified":"2024-12-12T13:51:25","modified_gmt":"2024-12-12T20:51:25","slug":"budapest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/budapest\/","title":{"rendered":"Budapest 2024, Day 3 Semifinals: Sara Curtis Lowers Her WJR In 50 Back, No\u00e8 Ponti Sets 100IM CR"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>Budapest 2024, Day 3 Semifinals: Sara Curtis Lowers Her WJR In 50 Back, No\u00e8 Ponti Sets 100IM CR<\/h4>\n<p><strong>Sara Curtis<\/strong> lowered her 50 back WJR to 26.03 as she progressed fifth into Friday&#8217;s final at the <strong>World Short-Course Championships<\/strong> in Budapest.<\/p>\n<p>The Italian split 12.78\/13.25 to dip 0.05 inside her own record of 26.08 set in Riccione in April this year.<\/p>\n<p>United States duo <strong>Katharine Berkoff<\/strong> and <strong>Regan Smith<\/strong> booked the centre lanes in 25.51 and 25.66 respectively with Canadian pair <strong>Ingrid Wilm<\/strong> (25.81) and <strong>Kylie Masse<\/strong> (25.98) following behind.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Iona Anderson<\/strong> of Australia booked the final place in 26.25, 0.01 ahead of <strong>Mizuki Hirai<\/strong> who clocked 26.26 as first reserve.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"601666\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/budapest\/w50backsemis\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/w50backsemis.png\" data-orig-size=\"666,259\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" 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class=\"aligncenter wp-image-601667\" src=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/m50backsemis.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"231\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/m50backsemis.png 656w, https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/m50backsemis-280x108.png 280w, https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/m50backsemis-300x116.png 300w, https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/m50backsemis-450x174.png 450w, https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/m50backsemis-533x206.png 533w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<h3>Men&#8217;s 100m Individual Medley<\/h3>\n<p><strong>No\u00e8 Ponti<\/strong> has been breaking world and European records throughout the past few weeks. The Swiss athlete lowered the 50 fly mark to 21.32 en-route to gold on Wednesday evening.<\/p>\n<p>The record breaking didn&#8217;t end there with Ponti setting a championship record of 50.43 in the 100IM semis on Thursday. That saw him go 0.20 inside the previous standard of 50.63 set by<strong> Kliment Kolesnikov<\/strong> at the 2018 short-course worlds in Hangzhou, China, in 2018.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"601668\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/budapest\/m100imsemisbuda\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/m100IMsemisbuda.png\" data-orig-size=\"654,270\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"m100IMsemisbuda\" data-image-description=\"\" 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