Philip Heintz

Vazaios earns silver at Short Course Europeans

Greek swimming champion Andreas Vazaios won silver at the European Short Course Championship on Friday, finishing second at the men's 200-meter medley final.

The Argyroupoli swimmer clocked one minute and 53.27 seconds to register a new national short-course record that was six tenths of a second better than the one he had recorded in the morning's qualifiers.