Swimming and Diving Roundup : Evans Wins Third Gold; Barrowman Sets Record

Janet Evans extended her streak to 21 victories Saturday by winning the 400-meter freestyle for her third gold medal in the Pan Pacific Swimming Championships at Tokyo.

Evans, a triple gold-medalist in the Seoul Olympics, quickly took the lead and won in 4 minutes 4.53 seconds, shattering her meet record of 4:09.32 set in 1987. She holds the world record of 4:03.85.

On Sunday, American Mike Barrowman broke the world record for the 200-meter breaststroke in a qualifying heat.

Barrowman, 20, was clocked in 2 minutes 12.89 seconds. He had set the world record of 2:12.90 July 3 during the U.S. National Swimming Championships. Britain’s Nick Gillingham last week equaled Barrowman’s time with a 2:12.90 in the European Swimming Championships.

Wendy Wyland and Matt Scoggin successfully defended their U.S. 10-meter platform titles in the U.S. Outdoor Diving Championships at Raleigh, N.C., with both events decided on the final dive.

Wyland, a 1984 Olympic bronze medalist from Boca Raton, Fla., outscored Courtney Nelson of Concord, Calif., by 0.18 points to earn her seventh U.S. platform title. The score was 412.68 to 412.50.

Wendy Lian Williams, the 1989 World Cup champion from Bridgeton, Mo., was third with 387.39.

Scoggin, of Great Falls, Va., held off Houston’s Scott Donie, who led by one point going into the final round, to win his third U.S. platform championship, by a score of 612.45 to 605.70. Patrick Jeffrey of Madison, N.J., a 1988 Olympian, was third with 537.12 points.

East Germany swept all three women’s races in the European Swimming Championships at Bonn, West Germany, and Spain’s Martin Lopez-Zubero scored an upset victory in the men’s 100-meter backstroke.

Olympic champion Daniela Hunger won the 200-meter individual medley in 2:13.26, teammates Anke Moehring and Astrid Strauss placed 1-2 in the 800-meter freestyle, and the East Germans won the women’s 400-meter medley relay in 4:07.40, the world’s best time this year.

Ranked 88th in the world, Lopez-Zubero surprisingly caught Soviet Sergey Zabolotnov, East Germany’s Dirk Richter and West German Frank Hoffmeister at 50 meters and won in 56.44.