Italian teen Curtis breaks women's 50m backstroke world record for second time / Photo: JULIEN DE ROSA - AFP
Italian teen Curtis breaks women's 50m backstroke world record for second time
Italian teenager Sara Curtis broke the women's 50m backstroke world record for the second time in as many days at the European swimming championships in Paris on Thursday.
The 19-year-old clocked 26.56sec on her way to gold in the final, a day after lowering the mark with 26.63 in the semi-final to better Australian Kaylee McKeown's mark from three years ago by 0.23sec.
France's Mary-Ambre Moluh took silver in 27.06 and Britain's Lauren Cox bronze, 0.59sec off the pace.
Curtis adds the world record to the short-course European record she set in the event in Poland last year.
It was also her second medal of the championships after she took bronze in the women's 100m freestyle on Tuesday.
Earlier, Olympic champion Kristof Milak set a new European record in the men's 100m butterfly final.
Hungary's Milak clocked 49.48sec to snatch gold ahead of world champion Maxime Grousset of France.
Grousset had been leading after the first length but was caught in the final 25 metres finishing in 49.70sec. Swiss Noe Ponti took bronze in 49.93.
L.Lewis--PI
