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World records keep falling at world swimming championships

Another swimming record has been broken at the world swimming championships with South Africa’s Cameron van der Burgh setting a new 50 metre breaststroke world record on Tuesday. Several records have already fallen at the FINA World Championships in Kazan, Russia.

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Defender champion Van der Burgh clocked an official time of 26.62 seconds in Tuesday morning’s heats to set a new record, shaving 0.05 seconds off his own record.

It was the fifth world record to be set in Kazan and Tuesday’s performance by Van der Burgh was the first men’s record to be broken at a world championship since 2011.

On Monday Swedish swimmer Sarah Sjostrom broke the women’s 100 metre butterfly record twice in 24 hours and took gold. Sjostrom had shaved 0.15 seconds off her own record set during Sunday’s semi-finals.

“I have been waiting six years to break my personal best time,” Sjostrom said, in comments cited by the AFP news agency. “Now I have taken a few more tenths of a second off it – finally!”

Hungary’s Katinka Hossvu set a new world record in the women’s 200 metre medley during her gold-winning swim on Monday night. She beat Ariana Kukors’ previous record by 0.03 seconds.

“I was just trying to give my best and race as fast as possible,” said Hossvu, according to the AFP news agency. “Then there was a record. It was just perfect.”

US swimmer Katie Ledecky beat her own 1500 metre freestyle record during Monday morning’s heats.

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