Six more individual world records highlight second half of World Deaf Swimming Championships

Six individual world records fell over the final three days of the World Deaf Swimming Championships, along with three relay marks.

That included a run of three events in a row, the men’s 50 free, women’s 100 breast and men’s 100 back.

American breaststroker Marcus Titus continued to expand his dominance into the freestyle races, winning that 50 free title in 23.34 and breaking the deaf world record.

One event later, Belarus 30-year-old Aksana Petrushenka went 1:11.53 to win the 100 breast. She had broken the 50 breast world record earlier in the meet, and this held up as another world deaf mark.

And Japan’s Yoshikazu Kanaji won the next event, breaking third-straight world record with a 58.12 in the 100 back. That followed up Kanaji’s 50 back world record from early in the meet.

Russia’s Alena Alekseeva took down the women’s 200 back record, winning gold in 2:25.18. A few days later, the shorter backstroke record fell, with her Russian teammate Elena Brykanova going 30.60 in the 50 back. Also under the 50 back record was Great Britain’s Danielle Joyce, who first broke the record in prelims at 30.82, then went 30.75 in the final.

South Africa’s Peggy de Villiers broke her second world butterfly record of the meet on the final day, going 1:03.59 to etch her name into the 100 fly record book.

In addition, both free relays saw the Russians take down world deaf records. Brykanova, Alekseeva, Ekaterina Savchenko and Maria Karpova combined to go 3:58.92 in the women’s 4×100 free relay, and Ilya Sarykin, Andrei Zhivaev, Miron Denisov and Vitalii Obotin went 3:30.36 in the men’s race.

Both mixed relay world records fell during the competition, also to Team Russia. The mixed 4×100 free relay was a 3:43.01 with Obotin, Denisov, Karpova and Brykanova. The mixed 4×100 medley relay came from Igor Zhurvalev, Martin Fomin, Savnchenko and Karpova, and finished in a time of 4:08.40.

Full results available here.