Sport in short: Swimming

WORLD CUP SHORT COURSE MEET (Shanghai) Men: Backstroke: 50m: 1 T Weber (Ger) 25.89sec; 2 Z Hegmegl (Swe) 26.03; 3 M Pedro (Macau) 30.66. 200m: 1 Weber 1min 56.81sec; 2 Hegmegl 2:07.55; 3 Pedro 2:25.80. Breaststroke: 100m: 1 M Warnecke (Ger) 1:01.97; 2 S Vossart (Fr) 1:02.05; 3 Hu Zhengyu (Ch) 1:02.75. 100m butterfly: 1 D Loader (NZ) 53.18; 2 M Gery (Can) 53.55; 3 B Gutzeit (Fr) 54.37. Freestyle: 50m: 1 M Pinger (Ger) 22.52; 2 C Troeger (Ger) 22.66; 3 J Holmqvist (Swe) 22.88. 200m: 1 A Holmertz (Swe) 1:45.89; 2 Loader 1:46.63; 3 C Keller (Ger) 1:46.72. 1,000m: 1 Holmertz 9:57.46; 2 S Wiese (Ger) 9:58.25; 3 Xiong Guoming (Ch) 10:16.27. Individual medley: 200m: 1 Keller 1:58.73; 2 L Sacchi (It) 2:04.50; 3 Xue Wei (Ch) 2:16.63. Women: Backstroke: 100m: 1 Xue Lei (Ch) 1:01.20; 2 Liu Bichun (Ch) 1:01.99; 3 C Stolze (Ger) 1:03.01. Breaststroke: 50m: 1 Huang Xiaomin (Ch) 31.67; 2 Lou Xia (Ch) 31.74; 3 L Carlsson (Swe) 31.99. 200m: 1 Huang Xiaomin (Ch) 2:25.69; 2 Lu Di (Ch) 2:29.55; 3 G Cloutier (Can) 2:29.58. Butterfly: 50m: 1 Carlsson 27.42; 2 F van Almsick (Ger) 27.48; 3 Liu Min (Ch) 27.69. 200m: 1 Liu Limin (Ch) 2:10.32; 2 M Stromberg (Swe) 2:14.45; 3 T Lundin (Swe) 2:14.69. Freestyle: 100m: 1 Van Almsick 53.46 (world record); 2 Zhong Weiyue (Ch) 54.83; 3 E Ermakova (Kaz) 54.99. 400m: 1 M Nilsson (Swe) 4:11.80; 2 N Dryden (Can) 4:11.97; 3 Luo Ping (Ch) 4:15.12. Individual medley: 100m: 1 Carlsson 1:03.05; 2 J Haas (Ger) 1:04.07; 3 A Wilson (NZ) 1:06.27. 400m: 1 Haas 4:43.24; 2 Liu Bichun (Ch) 4:46.49; 3 Stolze 4:51.14.