Neethling wins twice at World Cup swim

MELBOURNE, Australia -- South Africa's Ryk Neethling won the 100-meter freestyle and 100-meter individual medley Friday night at a World Cup short-course swim meet.

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Neethling finished the 100 freestyle in 46.94 seconds and was followed by two Americans -- Olympian Jason Lezak and Nick Brunelli. Neethling also won the medley in 53.01 over Brunelli and Joshua Taylor of Australia.

Also on opening night, Yuri Prilukov of Russia won the 400 freestyle and Matt Welsh of Australia took the 50 backstroke in 23.86.

Australia's Lisbeth Lenton won the 100 freestyle, in which she is short-course champion, in 53.58 and also took the 50-meter butterfly.

"I did hear the world champion thing but you try not to focus on that, you focus on your lane and what you're trying to do," Lenton said.