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Moses Betters Own 200 Breaststroke World Record in Berlin
Jan 17, 2004 - Nick J. Thierry
Ed Moses (USA) bettered his own 200 breaststroke world record with a 2:02.92, improving on his previous best of 2:03.17 from two years ago in this same Berlin pool.
| A comparison of the splits: | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 | 27.92 | 58.77 | 1:30.73 | 2:03.17 |
| 2004 | 27.62 | 58.61 | 1:30.37 | 2:02.92 |
Moses now has the five fastest 200 breast performances all time
| 200 METRES BREASTSTROKE ALL TIME PERFORMANCES | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2:02.92 | BERLNJAN | Moses Glenn Ed,USA | SCM04 |
| 2 | 2:03.17 | BERLNJAN | Moses Glenn Ed,USA | SCM02 |
| 3 | 2:03.26 | STOCKJAN | Moses Glenn Ed,USA | SCM02 |
| 4 | 2:04.37 | PARISJAN | Moses Glenn Ed,USA | SCM02 |
| 5 | 2:04.54 | STOCKJAN | Moses Glenn Ed,USA | SCM04 |
| 6 | 2:05.63 | EURSCDEC | Edmond Ian,GBR | SCM04 |
| 7 | 2:06.00 | TOKYOFEB | Kitajima Kosuke,JPN | SCM03 |
| 8 | 2:06.06 | BERLNJAN | Kitajima Kosuke,JPN | SCM04 |
| 9 | 2:06.28 | BERLNJAN | Edmond Ian,GBR | SCM04 |
| 10 | 2:06.32 | BERLNJAN | Kitajima Kosuke,JPN | SCM03 |
The record time was worth 1041 IPS points and now becomes the top performance of the current FINA World Cup series. Moses also won the 50 breast in 26.68.
Other top men's performances:
Thomas Rupprath (GER) won the 100 backstroke in 51.47 (995 IPS points), Alessio Boggiatto (ITA) with a 4:06.37 in the 400 IM beat world record holder Brian Johns (CAN) well back with a 4:09.25. Ryk Neethling (RSA) won the 400 free in 3:39.91 for an African continental record,
Martina Moravcova (SVK) wom the 100 butterfly in 56.93 (1006 IPS points) in a strong field that had Jenny Thompson (USA) in second 57.09 and Petria Thomas (AUS) third in 57.16.
The USA leads in medals with a total of 6 (2-3-1) with 20 different countries winning at least a medal.
Compeition continues tomorrow.
| WORLD CUP 5 MEDAL TOTALS after Day 1 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total | |
| USA | 2 | 3 | 1 | 6 |
| CHN | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| GER | 2 | 0 | 3 | 5 |
| ROM | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| JPN | 1 | 3 | 1 | 5 |
| UKR | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| AUT | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| ESP | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| ITA | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| SVK | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| SWE | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| RSA | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| ARG | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| GBR | 0 | 3 | 3 | 6 |
| RUS | 0 | 3 | 1 | 4 |
| CAN | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| LTU | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| FRA | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| AUS | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| POL | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Total | 17 | 17 | 17 | 51 |
| Rating Summary of Top Performances | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1) | 1041 | 2:02.92 | 200 breast M | Moses Glenn Ed,80,USA |
| 2) | 1006 | 56.93 | 100 fly W | Moravcova Martina,76,SVK |
| 1006 | 2:06.06 | 200 breast M | Kitajima Kosuke,82,JPN | |
| 4) | 1003 | 2:06.28 | 200 breast M | Edmond Ian,78,GBR |
| 5) | 1002 | 57.09 | 100 fly W | Thompson Jenny,73,USA |
| 6) | 1000 | 57.16 | 100 fly W | Thomas Petria,75,AUS |
| 7) | 998 | 27.19 | 50 back W | Gao Chang,87,CHN |
| 8) | 995 | 51.47 | 100 back M | Rupprath Thomas,77,GER |
| 9) | 994 | 4:06.37 | 400 im M | Boggiatto Alessio,81,ITA |
| 10) | 993 | 2:05.99 | 200 back W | Nakamura Reiko,82,JPN |
| 993 | 3:39.91 | 400 free M | Neethling Ryk,77,RSA | |
2004 FINAL WORLD CUP 5 Berlin, GER, Jan 17-18 (25 m) Day 1 finals MEN 100 METRES FREESTYLE 1 47.61 Meolans Jose M.,78,ARG 2 47.93 Barnier Romain,76,FRA 3 47.95 Magnini Filippo,82,ITA 4 47.98 Kunzelmann Stephan,78,GER 5 48.10 Schreiber Jens,82,GER 6 48.44 Dehmlow Carsten,77,GER 7 48.66 Yegoshin Yuri,85,UKR 8 49.00 Hayden Brent,83,CAN 400 METRES FREESTYLE 1 3:39.91 Neethling Ryk,77,RSA 2 3:40.30 Prilukov Yuri,84,RUS 3 3:41.06 Coman Dragos,80,ROM 4 3:46.44 Hell Heiko,80,GER 5 3:47.35 Monasterio Ricardo,78,VEN 6 3:47.76 Matsumoto Hisato,84,JPN 7 3:48.92 Johnston Mark,79,CAN 8 3:51.93 Moller Philipp,83,GER 100 METRES BACKSTROKE 1 51.47 Rupprath Thomas,77,GER 2 51.96 Bal Randall,80,USA 3 52.49 Aleshin Evgeni,79,RUS 4 52.77 Theloke Stev,78,GER 5 52.82 Morita Tomomi,84,JPN 6 53.03 Driesen Steffen,81,GER 7 53.32 Vyatchanin Arkadi,84,RUS 8 54.25 Winkler Thomas,81,GER 50 METRES BREASTSTROKE 1 26.68 Moses Glenn Ed,80,USA 2 26.76 Lisogor Oleg,79,UKR 3 27.21 Gibson James,79,GBR 4 27.27 Kitajima Kosuke,82,JPN 5 27.28 Cook Chris,79,GBR 6 27.39 Mew Darren,79,GBR 7 27.42 Duboscq Hugues,81,FRA 8 27.70 Muller Kurt,84,RSA 200 METRES BREASTSTROKE 1 2:02.92 Moses Glenn Ed,80,USA 2 2:06.06 Kitajima Kosuke,82,JPN 3 2:06.28 Edmond Ian,78,GBR 4 2:09.89 Whitehead Adam,79,GBR 5 2:10.61 Lorenz Timo,82,GER 6 2:11.58 Vincenzetti Olivier,78,GER 7 2:11.93 Gibson James,79,GBR 8 2:12.37 Tomazini Marcelo,78,BRA 50 METRES BUTTERFLY 1 23.36 Serdinov Andriy,82,UKR 2 23.56 Skvortsov Nikolai,84,RUS 3 23.61 Mintenko Michael,75,CAN 4 23.70 Dietrich Johannes,85,GER 5 23.78 Pine Adam,76,AUS 6 24.06 Zhou Jiawei,83,CHN 7 24.07 Ilika Josh,76,MEX 8 24.12 Kizierowski Bartosz,77,POL 200 METRES BUTTERFLY 1 1:53.94 Gherghel Ioan,78,ROM 2 1:54.18 Matsuda Takashi,84,JPN 3 1:54.29 Parry Stephen,77,GBR 4 1:54.53 Skvortsov Nikolai,84,RUS 5 1:56.14 Polyakov Anatoli,80,RUS 6 1:57.01 Dietrich Johannes,85,GER 7 1:58.78 Starke Benjamin,86,GER 8 2:02.98 Boggiatto Alessio,81,ITA 100 METRES IND.MEDLEY 1 54.33 di Carli Marco,85,GER 2 54.89 Janusaitis Vytautas,81,LTU 3 55.22 Johns Brian,82,CAN 4 55.52 Silkou Dzianis,82,BLR 5 55.63 Keller Christian,72,GER 6 55.87 Wenzel Oliver,81,GER 7 56.30 Steinhauer Felix,82,GER 8 58.04 Pukhnatiy Oleg,75,UZB 400 METRES IND.MEDLEY 1 4:06.37 Boggiatto Alessio,81,ITA 2 4:09.25 Johns Brian,82,CAN 3 4:11.84 Wojt Lukasz,82,POL 4 4:12.57 Wang Wei,79,CHN 5 4:13.62 Kovrigin Alexei,81,RUS 6 4:14.66 Uppenkamp Marc,86,GER 7 4:17.74 Liu Weijia,89,CHN 8 4:17.94 Carstensen Jacob,78,DEN WOMEN 50 METRES FREESTYLE 1 24.43 Alshammar Therese,77,SWE 2 24.60 Sheppard Alison,72,GBR 3 24.62 Thompson Jenny,73,USA 4 24.68 Volker Sandra,74,GER 5 24.92 Meissner Katrin,73,GER 6 25.29 Shealy Courtney,77,USA 7 25.32 Brandt Dorothea,83,GER 8 25.41 Dallmann Petra,78,GER 200 METRES FREESTYLE 1 1:56.13 Potec Camelia,82,ROM 2 1:56.25 Marshall Melanie,82,GBR 3 1:58.07 Dallmann Petra,78,GER 4 1:58.19 Popchanka Alena,79,BLR 5 1:58.86 Gao Tingyan,86,CHN 6 1:59.00 Rouba Tatiana,83,ESP 7 2:00.21 Ries Alessa,81,GER 8 2:00.35 Li Ji,87,CHN 800 METRES FREESTYLE 1 8:18.87 Villaecia Erika,84,ESP 2 8:19.06 Cooke Rebecca,83,GBR 3 8:22.97 Caballero Melissa,85,ESP 4 8:23.01 Potec Camelia,82,ROM 5 8:33.00 Yang Jing,87,CHN 6 8:36.36 Strasser Chantal,78,SUI 7 8:38.58 Henke Jana,73,GER 8 8:40.31 Chase Laura,87,GBR 50 METRES BACKSTROKE 1 27.19 Gao Chang,87,CHN 2 27.69 Nakamura Mai,79,JPN 3 27.80 Pietsch Janine,82,GER 4 27.84 Carroll Jennifer,81,CAN 5 27.99 Nakamura Reiko,82,JPN 6 28.04 Jovanovic Sanja,86,CRO 7 28.18 Edington Sophie,85,AUS 8 28.65 Shealy Courtney,77,USA 200 METRES BACKSTROKE 1 2:05.99 Nakamura Reiko,82,JPN 2 2:06.41 Komarova Stanislava,86,RUS 3 2:06.55 Ito Hanae,85,JPN 4 2:07.33 Morgan Melissa,85,AUS 5 2:09.39 Gao Chang,87,CHN 6 2:10.69 Mensing Jenny,86,GER 7 2:11.21 Gustamelsky Ania,81,ISR 8 2:11.50 Zimmer Tayliah,85,AUS 100 METRES BREASTSTROKE 1 1:06.75 Jukic Mirna,86,AUT 2 1:07.64 Kowal Kristy,78,USA 3 1:07.84 Weiler Simone,78,GER 4 1:08.00 Bogomazova Elena,82,RUS 5 1:08.23 Bohm Caroline,86,GER 6 1:09.48 Vogel Kerstin,85,GER 7 1:09.65 Poleska Anne,80,GER 8 1:10.37 Kuc Marina,85,GER 100 METRES BUTTERFLY 1 56.93 Moravcova Martina,76,SVK 2 57.09 Thompson Jenny,73,USA 3 57.16 Thomas Petria,75,AUS 4 57.76 Zhou Yafei,84,CHN 5 58.66 Metella Malia,82,FRA 6 59.93 Popchanka Alena,79,BLR 7 59.98 Onishi Junko,74,JPN 8 1:00.67 Nakanishi Yuko,81,JPN 200 METRES IND.MEDLEY 1 2:10.01 Yang Yu,85,CHN 2 2:11.85 Pang Jiaying,85,CHN 3 2:14.21 Jukic Mirna,86,AUT 4 2:15.22 Cartiaux Celine,79,FRA 5 2:16.05 Van Welie Elizabeth,79,NZL 6 2:16.13 Sommerfeld Maibritt,80,GER 7 2:16.35 Schober Sonja,85,GER 8 2:17.19 Schiller Katharina,84,GER
