Arena World Cup in Berlin has become judging ground for world’s top swimmers who are preparing themselves for the Beijing Olympic Games. In the two-day event, Swedish Stefan Nystrand has made two world records. The 26-year-old and a freestyle and breaststroke swimmer, Nystrand has bettered the world record in the men’s 50-meter freestyle by clocking 20.93 seconds, and a day earlier, a world record in the 100-meter freestyle by finishing in 45.83 seconds. He said,

It’s my aim to keep on improving, especially with regard to the Olympic Games next year. I would like to capture two gold medals there.

Nystrand explained that because loosing few competitions in the past, he drastically changed his lifestyle two years ago, going on a diet and increasing his training programme.

In the women’s events, Dutch Marleen Veldhuis set the world record in the women’s 50-meter freestyle by clocking 23.58 seconds, lowering the old record by 0.01 second. South Korean swimmer Park Tae-Hwan does not lag behind from the top swimmers of the world. He also seized two golds over the past two days.

The fast swimmer firstly bagged gold medal in in the men’s 1,500-meter freestyle swimming and after five minutes he participate in the men’s 200-meter freestyle and finished with 1:42.22 to seal his second gold medal. Speaking about the success of Park, his coach Seok Ki Park said,

It’s no problem for Tae Hwan to compete on such a high level in two successive races. We have not decided yet if Tae Hwan is going to compete in the200m freestyle at the Beijing Olympic Games. Our priority are the 400m and 1500 freestyles.

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