The world swimming records continue to fall like dominoes.
The last day of the Short Course swimming World Cup produced three new world records.
According to the International Herald Tribune:
"Germany's Paul Biedermann broke Ian Thorpe 8-year-old record in the 200-meter freestyle by clocking 1:40.83, besting the old mark of 1:41.10.
American swimmer Randall Bal followed that up by breaking the four-day-old record in the 50 backstroke with a time of 20.87 seconds, beating Peter Marshall by 0.03 seconds. Marshall, another American, had set the previous record of 23.05 seconds on Wednesday in Stockholm.
Australia's Marieke Guehrer set the third record, clocking 24.99 seconds in the women's 50 butterfly. That was 0.32 seconds faster than the mark set by Sweden's Therese Alshammar on Wednesday. Alshammar was second in 25.35.
Biederman stayed in the pool, screaming with joy and flexing his muscles after breaking Thorpe's record, and received a two-minute stand ovation from the home crowd during the medal ceremony."
Peter Marshall of the United States broke his own world record for the 100-meter backstroke on the first day of the short-course World Cup meet in Berlin.
Marshall won in 49.64 seconds, three-tenths of a second faster than the record he set Tuesday in Stockholm. In that race, he bettered Ryan Lochte’s 2006 record time of 49.99. Lochte had taken the record from Marshall.