Keeping her promise of doing better in the finals Sjostrom swam an amazing 56.06 in the finale this evening. Australia's Jessicah Schipper also beat the former record with a silver-winning time of 56.23 to set an Australian record.
As predicted records are tumbling and in eight events on 26th half a dozen records were set up.
After Sjostrom, it was Biedermann, whose 400m free victory in 3:40.07 broke an iconic mark, the 3:40.08 set by Australian legend Ian Thorpe in 2002.
Record number three went to unheralded Kukors, who only got into the race when one of the two US women who qualified at trials pulled out. She clocked 2:07.03, to better a mark held by Australian
Stephanie Rice,who settled for the second fastest semifinal time.
The high point on Sunday was Pellegrini’s 400m free triumph, with a time of 3:59.15 that made her the first woman to break the four-minute barrier.
In the women’s relay, the Dutch quartet of Inge Dekker, Ranomi Kromowidjojo, Frede
rike Heemskerk and Marleen Veldhuis rallied from fifth after the first leg to win in 3:31.72. The next record was part of the same relay and went to Germany’s Britta Steffen for individual 100m freestyle who completed her lap in 50.22sec.
Today on 27th in the first race of the evening we had a world record Australian Brenton Rickard in the Men's 100m Breaststroke, setting the New World Record (58.58).
In between we had Sjostrom stamping her mark on the 100 mtrs butterfly.
Forty minutes later we already had the third record of the day as Rebecca Soni won her Women's 100m Breaststroke Semifinal, putting over the New World Record at 1:04.84.
Not to be left behind 15 minutes later Anastasia Zueva of Russia takes the 100 metres backstroke record at 58.48 in the semis. Stephanie Rice is also in the finals and fireworks are expected tomorrow.
However not everyone was smiling Aaron Peirsol the king of the 100m Backstrokedid not make it into the finals.
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