Third world record for dominant Moses

American Ed Moses cracked his third world breaststroke record in two days on Wednesday to complete his domination of a World Cup meeting.

On the second and final day in the short-course competition, he clocked 57.47 seconds to win the 100 metres breaststroke, improving on his previous best of 57.66 set at Minneapolis in March 2000.

Russia's Roman Sludnov, the world 100 metres breaststroke long-course champion, set a European record by finishing second in 57.73 while Ukrainian Oleg Lisogor placed third in 57.97.

On Tuesday, Moses had broken the 50 and 200 metre world breaststroke records.

"Three records in two days - it's probably been the best two days of swimming in my whole life," Moses said.

"But I didn't go out quite as fast tonight. I didn't feel like myself during the race."

Sweden's Emma Igelstrom set a second world record on the night, winning the women's 50 metres breaststroke in 30.43 seconds.

She broke Chinese swimmer Luo Xuejuan's record of 30.47 set in Paris on January 19.

Great Britain's Zoe Baker clocked 30.62 to come in second while South African Sarah Poewe was third in 31.02.

"I was very surprised as I wasn't aiming at a record. But my goal was to win," Igelstrom said. "It wasn't a perfect race, my finish was poor."

SECOND RECORD

It was the Swede's second record in two days, after she broke the European record in the 100 metres breaststroke on Tuesday with a time of 1:06.21.

Australian Geoff Huegill won his second butterfly event of the tournament, clocking at 50.79 on 100 metres. The day before, Huegill had equalled his 22.84 world record in the 50 metres.

Swede Lars Frolander came second in 51.44 and Canadian Mike Mintenko was third in 52.41.

American Jason Lezak won the 50 metres freestyle in a time of 21.57 seconds. British world record holder Mark Foster finished second in 21.66 while Poland's Bartosz Kizierowski placed third in 21.80.

Dutch sprint specialist Peter Van Den Hoogenband won the 200 metres freestyle in 1:43.85, ahead of second-placed Canadian Rick Say (1:44.40) and American Scott Tucker (1:45.95).

In the women's 100 metres freestyle, Slovakian Martina Moravcova triumphed with a time of 53.40 seconds.

Sweden's Johanna Sjoberg came second in 53.61 while world record holder Therese Alshammar slipped to a disappointing third in 53.90.

Moravcova won her second race of the evening in the 100 metres individual medley, clocking 1:00.70.

China's Yanwei Xu trailed second in 1:01.32 and American Haley Cope was third in 1:02.23.