STOCKHOLM (Sweden), Nov 12: South African swimmer Cameron van der Burgh set his third world short-course record in four days at the World Cup on Tuesday.

Also, Peter Marshall regained the 100 metres backstroke record in 49.94 seconds, breaking American countryman Ryan Lochte’s time of 49.99 from the 2006 world championships. Lochte took the record from Marshall. Another American, Randall Bal, came second in 50.30 seconds.

Van der Burgh broke his own three-day-old 50 breaststroke record of 26.08 in 25.94. Vladislav Polyakov of Kazakhstan came second in 26.72.

Van der Burgh first broke the 50 breaststroke record last Saturday at the World Cup in Moscow, becoming the first African man to hold a breaststroke record.

Oleg Lisogor of Ukraine had held the record for nearly three years. Van der Burgh added the 100 breaststroke record the next day.

In Stockholm, he partly credited new starting blocks, with an extra elevated part on the back, for the new record.

“It helped me to come under 26 seconds. It feels incredible to be the first to have managed 26 seconds,” he told Swedish television.

Results:

Men’s:

100m freestyle: 1. Stefan Nystrand (SWE) 46.03; 2. Lyndon Ferns (RSA) 47.02; 3. Alain Bernard (FRA) 47.04.

400m freestyle: 1. Oussama Mellouli (TUN) 3:38.42; 2. Paul Biedermann (GER) 3:42.06; 3. Mads Glaesner (DEN) 3:42.79.

100m backstroke: 1. Peter Marshall (USA) 49.94 world record; 2. Randall Marshall (USA) 50.30; 3. Robert Hurley (AUS) 51.01.

50m breaststroke: 1. Cameron van der Burgh (RSA) 25.94 world record; 2. Vladislav Polyakov (KAZ) 26.72; 3. Christian Sprenger (AUS) 26.86.

200m breaststroke: 1. Igor Borysik (UKR) 2:05.68; 2. Kazuki Otsuka (JPN) 2:06.47; 3. Christian Sprenger (AUS) 2:06.48.

50m butterfly: 1. Matthew Jaukovic (AUS) 22.85; 2. Evgeny Kototyshkin (RUS) 23.04; 3. Frederick Bousquet (FRA) 23.06.

200m butterfly: 1. Nikolay Skvortsov (RUS) 1:52.33; 2. Chris Wright (AUS) 1:53.71; 3. Christophe Lebon (FRA) 1:54.48.

100m medley: 1. Oussama Mellouli (TUN) 52.78; 2. Darian Townsend (RSA) 52.94; 3. Nicholas Brunelli (USA) 53.34.

400m medley: 1. Chris Christensen (DEN) 4:11.47; 2. Diogo Yabe (BRA) 4:13.12; 3. Tobias Urban Hansen (DEN) 4:28.31.

Women’s:

50m freestyle: 1. Mareike Guehrer (AUS) 24.25 seconds; 2. Therese Alshammar (SWE) 24.32; 3. Josefin Lillhage (SWE) 24.47.

200m freestyle: 1. Petra Granlund (SWE) 1 minute 54.77sec; 2. Josefin Lillhage (SWE) 1:55.37; 3. Kara Lyn Joyce (USA) 1:57.25.

800m freestyle: 1. Lotte Friis (DEN) 8:14.99; 2. Kristel Kobrich (CHI) 8:20.09; 3. Katheryn Meaklim (RSA) 8:32.72.

50m backstroke: 1. Sanja Jovanovic (CRO) 27.16sec; 2. Fabiola Molina (BRA) 27.45; 3. Sophie Edington (AUS) 27.58.

200m backstroke: 1. Melissa Ingram (NZL) 2:04.88; 2. Sophie Edington (AUS) 2:06.18; 3. Tomoyo Fukuda (JPN) 2:06.40.

100m breaststroke: 1. Sarah Katsoulis (AUS) 1:04.84; 2. Joline Hostman (SWE) 1:06.13; 3. Tara Kirk (USA) 1:06.20.

200m medley: 1. Katheryn Meaklim (RSA) 2:09.54; 2. Joanna Maranhao-Melo (BRA) 2:11.36; 3. Amanda Loots (RSA) 2:11.46.—Agencies