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HOBART, Australia -- Leisel Jones has smashed her new 100 meter breast-troke world record at the Australian short course swimming championships in Hobart.
Jones set a new world record of one minute 3.86 seconds in the final of the event, slashing the time of 1:04.12s she set in Sunday's semifinals.
In her first world record of the meet in the semifinal, Jones slashed 0.67seconds off the old mark set by American Tara Kirk in Texas in 2004.
"Obviously, it was a goal to improve on the 1:04 and didn't think I actually had it in me so I just had to psyche myself up for it and found something that I probably didn't think I had," she said after Monday's final. Jones now holds the long and short course 100 and 200m breaststroke world records.
Meanwhile, Libby Lenton set a new world record for the 100m butterfly -- toppling compatriot Jessicah Schipper to claim the record in 55.95 seconds.
The time eclipsed the previous record holder American Natalie Coughlin's 2002 mark of 56.34 seconds.
