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BERLIN -- Yu Yang of China set a short-course world record
in the 200-meter butterfly, and Ed Moses of the United States won
his third race at the World Cup meet Sunday. The 18-year-old Yu was timed in 2 minutes, 4.04 seconds, 0.12
seconds faster than the mark set by Australia's Susan O'Neil on
Jan. 18, 2000, in Sydney. Moses won the 100 breaststroke in 58.23 seconds, well off the
record of 57.47 but just 0.01 ahead of Japan's Kosuke Kitajima. Moses, who won the 50 breaststroke and set a world record of
2:02.92 in the 200 Saturday, was named the two-day meet's
outstanding swimmer and earned $25,000. "I'm a little fatigued, that's six races in five days. But
walking away 3-for-3 in Berlin, I'm totally satisfied," said
Moses, who won the 50, 100 and 200 breaststroke events in a World
Cup meet in Sweden earlier in the week. Malia Metella of France overtook Jenny Thompson of the United
States in the final strokes to win the women's 100 freestyle,
winning in 53.30. Thompson touched in 53.49, and Therese Alshammar
of Sweden was third.
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