Breaststroke Records Falling...

Christian Sprenger set a new Australian 100m Breaststroke record at the Bisbane Metropolitan Championships..

Christian Sprenger, a 22-year-old Queensland University of Technology student, smashed the Australian 100 metres breaststroke mark at the Brisbane Metropolitan Championships at Chandler.

The Stefan Widmer-coached Olympic hopeful clocked a stunning time of 1:00.15, the seventh fastest time in history and he is now the third fastest swimmer in the world over the past two years.

Sprenger's time clipped 0.24 secs off the previous Australian record set by 2007 World Championship bronze medallist Brenton Rickard (1:00.39) at the 2006 Pan Pacific Championships in Victoria, Canada.

And Kitajima set a new Japanese National Record in the 100m at Japan's Short Course Nationals today.

From Swimming World Magazine...

Kitajima also showed his preparation for Beijing is on track. Swimming in prelims with the Japanese record of 57.89, he broke it again in evening final at 57.62 touching first 50m at 27.14.

"I thought I was just breaking the WR (57.47) but it just did not happen," Kitajima said. "Overall, under current circumstances, I am swimming well as today's performance is at least my personal best. I will shoot for the long course world record in the upcoming Olympic Trials in April."

One of the articles on Christian said he was wearing the new Speedo LZR suit and since Kitajima is also a Speedo athlete I'm guessing he might have been as well. All signs point to this suit being very fast.