Swiss swimmer Noè Ponti breaks butterfly world record

Noè Ponti at the Olympic Games in Paris in August. Keystone / Patrick B. Kraemer

Noè Ponti has set his first world record, in the 50m butterfly at the World Cup small pool in Shanghai. He swam 21.67 in Sunday’s heats.

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Ponti, from Locarno in canton Ticino, set a European record in the 100m butterfly and a Swiss record in the 100m medley on Friday, then a national record in the 200m medley on Saturday. He then did even better on Sunday, improving on the record held by Brazilian Nicholas Santos and Hungarian Szebasztian Szabo by 0.08.

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Ponti had failed to break this world record by 0.04 last December at the European Championships in Romania. The final is scheduled for 13:02 Swiss time.

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