LONDON - Daniel Gyurta of Hungary broke the men's 200 metres breaststroke world record at the Olympic Games on Wednesday.

Gyurta clocked 2:07.28 in the final to beat the 2:07.31 that Australian Christian Sprenger set in the semi-finals at the 2009 Worlds.

World record evolution (Time, Name/Nationality, Place, Date):
2:07.28 Daniel Gyurta HUN London 01.08.12
2:07.31 Christian Sprenger AUS Rome 30.07.09
2:07.51 Kosuke Kitajima JPN Tokyo 08.06.08
2:08.50 Brendan Hansen USA Victoria 21.08.06
2:08.74 Brendan Hansen USA Irvine 06.08.06
2:09.04 Brendan Hansen USA Long Beach 11.07.04
2:09.42 Kosuke Kitajima JPN Barcelona 23.07.03

Gyurta, 23, also beat his own Europan mark set in Rome after he won the world title.

European record evolution (Time, Name/Nationality, Place, Date):
2:07.28 Daniel Gyurta HUN London 01.08.12
2:07.64 Daniel Gyurta HUN Rome 31.07.09
2:08.08 Daniel Gyurta HUN Rome 30.07.09
2:08.33 Marco Koch GER Berlin 28.06.08
2:08.68 Gyurta Daniel HUN Beijing 12.08.08
2:08.98 Paolo Bossini ITA Beijing 12.08.08
2:09.52 Dimititri komornikov RUS Barcelona 14.06.03