London, England – Daniel Gyurta won the men's 200-meter breaststroke Wednesday night with a world record time for Hungary's first swimming medal of the London Olympics.
Gyurta took over on the last two-plus laps and touched in 2 minutes, 7.28 seconds to shave .03 seconds off the previous world mark set by Australian Christian Sprenger in 2009.
He beat Great Britain's Michael Jamieson by .15 seconds. Jamieson won the host country's second swimming medal here.
Japan's Ryo Tateishi won bronze .06 seconds ahead of teammate Kosuke Kitajima, who failed in another bid to become the first male swimmer to win the same event in three straight Olympics despite leading after the first 100 meters.
Americans Scott Weltz and Clark Burckle were fifth and sixth.
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