ANKARA, Dec. 13 (Xinhua) -- Daniel Gyurta of Hungary set the world record in the 200-meter breaststroke and Italy's Federica Pellegrini improved her world record in the 200-meter women's freestyle on Sunday in Istanbul at the European short-course swimming championships.

    The results raised the number of world records set at the championships to 12.

    Gyurta finished in 2 minutes, 0.67 seconds to beat the time of 2:01.98 set by Christian Sprenger of Australia in Hobart, Australia in August.

    Pellegrini swam in 1:51:17, beating her own record of 1:51:85 posted in Rijeka, Croatia in December 2008.