Sport in Short: Swimming

WORLD CUP SHORT-COURSE MEET (Shanghai) Men: Backstroke: 100m: 1 Z Hegmegi (Swe) 55.11sec; 2 T Weber (Ger) 56.48; 3 Xiong Guoming (Ch) 57.55. Breaststroke: 50m: 1 M Warnecke (Ger) 28.27; 2 Qiu Jieming (Ch) 28.40; 3 Chen Jianhong (Ch) 28.70. 200m: 1 S Vossart (Fr) 2min 13.85sec; 2 Hu Zhengyu (Ch) 2:15.10; 3 Warnecke 2:27.23. Butterfly: 50m: 1 B Gutzeit (Fr) 24.64; 2 M Gery (Can) 24.81; 3 L Frolander (Swe) 25.00. 200m: 1 D Loader (NZ) 1:56.08; 2 C Kelley (Ger) 1:57.71. Freestyle: 100m: 1 C Troeger (Ger) 48.83; 2 A Holmertz (Swe) 48.89; 3 S Caron (Fr) 48.83. 400m: 1 Holmertz 3:46.55; 2 Loader 3:46.89; 3 S Wiese (Ger) 3:51.17. Individual medley: 100m: 1= Qiu Jieming, Keller 55.64; 3 Loader 57.79. 400m: 1 L Sacci (It) 4:23.34; 2 Loader 4:23.85; 3 Pedro (Macao) 5:26.62. Women: Backstroke: 50m: 1 Xue Lei (Ch) 28.51; 2 T Lundin (Swe) 29.63; 3 T Kiryukhina (Kaz) 30.01. 200m: 1 Liu Bichun (Ch) 2:11.01; 2 C Stolze (Ger) 2:11.79; 3 N Dryden (Can) 2:12.35. Breaststroke: 100m: 1 Huang Xiaomin (Ch) 1:07.23; 2 L Karlsson (Swe) 1:09.13; 3 G Cloutier (Can) 1:09.77. Butterfly: 100 m: 1 Zhong Weiyue (Ch) 59.18; 2 Liu Limin (Ch) 1:00.71; 3 T Lundin (Swe) 1:01.00. Freestyle: 50m: 1 F van Almsick (Ger) 24.86; 2 Le Jingyi (Ch) 25.14; 3 Ye Beibei (Ch) 25.36. 200m: 1 Van Almsick 1:57.34; 2 E Ermakova (Kaz) 2:00.91; 3 M Nilsson (Swe) 2:02.37. 1,000m: 1 N Dryden (Can) 10:47.35; 2 J Henke (Ger) 10:48.55; 3 O Splichalova (Cz Rep) 10:49.08. Individual medley: 200m: 1 L Karlsson (Swe) 2:13.13; 2 J Haas (Ger) 2:18.33; 3 A Wilson (NZ) 2:19.45.