2018 SCOTTISH SHORT COURSE NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS
- Friday, December 7th – Sunday, December 9th
- Royal Commonwealth Pool, Edinburgh
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2018 Commonwealth Games silver medalist Ross Murdoch just notched his 2nd Scottish National Record in as many days. After taking the 50m breaststroke gold on night 1 in a new national standard of 26.34, the University of Stirling Olympian blasted a 100m mark of 57.29 to take gold in tonight’s final.
Entering this competition, 24-year-old Murdoch’s personal best and NR sat at the 57.51 notched at the 2017 European Short Course Championships, a time that garnered the Scot 8th place.
After registering a morning effort of 1:00.30 at thee championships, Murdoch busted out a winning time of 57.29 to top the podium in tonight’s final, as well as check-in as the 12th fastest performer in the world this season. His time keeps him as the 2nd fastest performing British swimmer ever, positioned 2nd only behind Adam Peaty (55.94).
2018-2019 SCM MEN 100 BREAST
VAN DER BURGH
56.01
| 2 | Ilya SHYMANOVICH | BLR | 56.10 | 12/12 |
| 3 | Yasuhiro KOSEKI | JPN | 56.13 | 12/12 |
| 4 | Fabio SCOZZOLI | ITA | 56.30 | 12/11 |
| 5 | Kirill PRIGODA | RUS | 56.31 | 12/11 |
| 6 | Zibei YAN | CHN | 56.34 | 11/15 |
| 7 | Oleg KOSTIN | RUS | 56.56 | 11/08 |
| 8 | Felipe LIMA | BRA | 56.69 | 10/04 |
| 8 | Anton CHUPKOV | RUS | 56.69 | 11/15 |
| 10 | Lizhuo WANG | CHN | 56.89 | 12/11 |
| 11 | Andrew WILSON | USA | 56.92 | 12/11 |
| 12 | Arno KAMMINGA | NED | 57.09 | 12/11 |
Murdoch still has the 200m breaststroke in which to compete here in Edinburgh, the event in which he earned 2014 Commonwealth Games gold.
