China empty-handed at Short-Course Swimming Worlds day 2

Three more world records were created on the second day of the FINA Short-Course Swimming World Championships in Doha while the Chinese swimming team got empty-handed Thursday.

China finished sixth in the mixed 4X50m medley relay, while Asian champ Ning Zetao and Youth Olympic champ Shen Duo both failed to make finals in their own event.

Brazil won the men's 4x50m medley relay in a new world record time of 1:30.51. Guilherme Guido, Felipe Franca, Nicholas Santos and Cesar Cielo took an early and decisive control of the race and improved the time of 1:32.78 (also a WR) established in the morning heats by the Russians, who could not make the podium and finished fourth, behind second-placed France and bronze medallist USA.

Brazil also won the mixed 4X50m medley relay in 1:37.26.

Hungary's "Iron Lady" Katinka Hosszu bounced back from second place finishes at the hands of her rival Mireia Belmonte Garcia on Wednesday to prove her steel once again and post a new WR in the 100m backstroke in 55.03.

"It's super exciting. The most amazing thing you can do is break a world record and I'll never forget that feeling," Hosszu said.

"That was my sixth world record this season but it ranked high up there as the event is not really 'my' event. I honestly wasn't thinking of the record, I was just trying to do my best and I was shocked afterwards."

South Africa's Chad Le Clos set a new WR in the men's 100m fly in 48.44.

Brazil's Felipe Franca Silva won the men's 100m breaststroke in a new Championships record of 56.29.

In other finals of the day, Mitchell James Larkin of Australia won the men's 100m back in 49.57.

In the men's 400m individual medley, and in the absence of WR holder and winner in 2006, 2008 and 2010, US star Ryan Lochte, the 2012 champion Daiya Seto of Japan touched first in 3:56.33.

Lithuania's Olympic champ Ruta Meilutyte won the women's 50m breast in 28.84.

The United States won the men's 4x200m free relay in 6:51.68.

Mireia Belmonte of Spain won her third title here as she touched first in the 800m free with a new championships record of 8:03.41.