DUBAI – Russian Stanislav Donets broke the men's 100 metres backstroke European record at the World short-course championships in Dubai on Sunday, timing 48.95 seconds on the first leg of the 4x100m medley relay, just 0.01 off the world record set by American Nick Thoman last year in Manchester.

Donet’s time bettered the Eruopean mark of 48.97sec that he shared with fellow-countryman Arkady Vyatchanin; both swimmers set the record last year at the European Championships.

European record evolution (Time, Name/Nationality, Place, Date):
48.95 Stanislav Donets RUS Dubai 19.12.10
48.97 Arkady Vyatchanin RUS Istanbul 13.12.09
48.97 Stanislav Donets RUS Istanbul 13.12.09
49.17 Arkady Vyatchanin RUS Istanbul 12.12.09
49.20 Aschwin Wildeboer Faber ESP Madrid 21.12.08
49.32 Stanislav Donets RUS RIJEKA 14.12.08
49.66 Aschwin Wildeboer Faber ESP Rijeka 13.12.07
50.14 Liam Tancock GBR Manchester 10.04.08
50.58 Thomas Rupprath GER Melbourne 08.12.02

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