Almeida sets 200 butterfly short-course world mark
Nov 10, 2009 3:26 PM (22 days ago)
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Kaio Almeida, left, of Brazil smiles after setting a new world record at 1:49.11 in the Men's 200m Butterfly heat during the short-course World Cup swimming competition in Eriksdalshallen in Stockholm, Sweden, Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2009. Swimmer at right unidentified.
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Kaio Almeida of
Brazil has broken the world record in the men's 200-meter butterfly at a short-course World Cup meet.
Almeida clocked 1 minute, 49.11 seconds in Tuesday's final at the Stockholm event to beat the time of 1:50.53 set by Nikolay Skvortsov of Russia in February at St. Petersburg.
It was the fourth world record at the meet. Earlier Tuesday, Jing Zhao of China twice set new marks in the women's 50 backstroke. Felicity Galvez of Australia also set a world record in the women's 100 butterfly.
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