Three world records tumble at Australian swimming championships

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Three world records fell in less than two hours at the Australian short-course (25-metre pool) championships in Hobart on Monday.

Libby Trickett broke her own world record for women's 100 metres freestyle then Christian Sprenger broke the men's 200 breaststroke record and Brisbane teenager Emily Seebohm rounded off the night in the women's 100 individual medley.

Trickett, who lost her 100 freestyle long-course (50-metre pool) record to Germany's Britta Steffen less than two months ago, stopped the clock at 51.01 seconds to slash 0.69 off the previous short-course mark she set at Melbourne in 2005.

"Go hard or go home is my motto, for short-course especially," she told reporters.

"I went hard, and I am going home tomorrow! I haven't done a personal best in that race for four years now. I was pretty stoked."

Sprenger added the short-course world record to the long-course mark he claimed at last month's world championships in Rome.

The 23-year-old's time of two minutes 01.98 seconds wiped 0.94 off the previous short-course mark of 2:02.92 set by American Ed Moses at Berlin in 2004.

Seebohm, 17, set her world record in 58.54, hacking 0.26 off the previous mark of 58.80 set by American Natalie Coughlin at New York in 2002.

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