Australian Sprenger breaks 200m short course breaststroke world record

CANBERRA, Aug. 10 -- Australian Christian Sprenger broke the

200-meter breaststroke short course world record at the Australian championships

in Hobart on Monday.

Sprenger clocked two minutes 1.98 seconds to beat previous record of

2:02.92 set by American swimmer Ed Moses five-and-half years

ago.