World swim records fall in separate meets
Last Updated: Saturday, June 27, 2009 | 3:17 PM ET
The Associated Press
Swimmer Federica Pellegrini recaptured the world record in the women's 400-metre freestyle at the Mediterranean Games in Pescara, Italy, on Saturday.
Pellegrini, the Olympic champion and world record-holder in the 200 freestyle, finished in four minutes, 0.41 seconds on Saturday to lower the mark of Jo Jackson of Britain by 0.25 seconds.
Jackson had swum 4:00.65 in March at the British swimming championships to break Pellegrini's previous mark.
Meanwhile, Germany's Britta Steffen set her second world record in three days in Berlin. Steffen hit the wall in 52.56 seconds in the 100-metre freestyle.
She shaved 0.29 seconds off the time she posted on Thursday in heats of the same event. Her Thursday time broke the previous mark, held by Australia's Lisbeth Trickett, by three-100ths of a second.
Steffen won gold in the women's 50 and 100 freestyle at the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
