Latvian record in 200 m butterfly broken at Riga Sprint 2026 swimming meet
A new Latvian record has been set in the 200 metre butterfly at the "Riga Sprint 2026" swimming competition. Two meet records were also improved on the first day.
A Latvian record in the 200 metre butterfly has been broken at the "Riga Sprint 2026" swimming competition. The previous national record stood at 1:59.57 and was set on 14 June 2026 at the Latvian championships in a 25-metre pool in Jelgava. The source text does not say which swimmer set the new record or what the new time is.
Two meet records
Two competition records were also improved on the first day of the event. Ieva Maluka, representing the Riga swimming school, set a new meet record in the 100 metre individual medley, a race that combines several swimming strokes. She finished in 1 minute 1.20 seconds. She missed her own Latvian record in this distance by just one hundredth of a second.
In the women's 200 metre butterfly, a new meet record was set by Darja Romanjuka, who represents the Estonian sports club "Garants". She covered the distance in 2 minutes 17.90 seconds.
The information on the results was published by the Latvian Swimming Federation.
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