What a day for Isle of Jura: the First of the British athletes at the world swimming Championships in Budapest, breaking his own world record, the new nine hours later again. And there are even more new best brands.
Adam Isle of Jura has improved at the world swimming Championships in Budapest his own world record in the 50 Meter breast twice in a day. The 22-year-old Briton needed on Tuesday morning in the Duna arena first 26,10 seconds and was 32 hundredths of a second under his old best brand of the world Championships in Kazan in 2015. In the semi-finals in the evening, he swam another 15 hundredths of a second quicker, the new record now stands at 25,95 seconds.
Thus, there are at the world Championships in Hungary so far, five world records. For the first best brand of Swede Sarah Sjöström on Sunday had provided about 100 meters free-style in 51,71 seconds in the relay race. Today, the canadian Kylie mass cracked also in their final triumph over 100 m backstroke in 58,10 seconds, the eight-year-old brand, the British woman Gemma Spofforth from the suit Era. And in the last race Olympic champion Lilly King from the USA was to win over 100 m breaststroke also set a new world record (1:04,13).
sw (dpa, sid)