FP - Australia's Robert Hurley claimed double gold on the second night of competition at the Dubai leg of the World Cup on Friday.
At the Hamden Sports Complex Hurley led all the way in the men's 200m freestyle final and hit the wall in a time of 1min.44.12.
He then backed up that effort with another first place in the men's 50m backstroke in a time of 23.31.
Compatriot Kenneth To recorded a PB of 58.29 to win the men's 100m breaststroke.
To also secured silver in the final of the men's 200m individual medley in 1.54.73 behind world champion butterflyer South African Chad Le Clos in 1.53.21.
Australia's other medal on the final night of competition came via Emily Seebohm, who finished third in the women's 100m medley with a time of 59.23 behind first placed Jamaica's Alia Atkinson and Hungary's Katinka Hosszu in 58.55
Australia leaves Dubai with a total of 16 medals.
Japan broke the only world record of the Dubai leg of the World Cup, slashing half a second from the previous mark in the mixed 4x50m freestyle on Friday.
Russia had set the previous record less than a week ago in Moscow's third leg, but that did not remain intact for long as Japan, represented by Shinri Shioura, Satyaka Akase, Kenta Ito and Kanako Watanabe, finished in 1min 32.52sec, ahead of second-placed Brazil and China.
Russia's timing last Sunday was 1:33.01.
It was Ito, racing the penultimate leg, who created the record momentum, covering his distance in 20.7sec.
Le Clos matched his three-gold performance from Moscow, adding the 200m individual medley and 100m butterfly golds on Friday to his 200m butterfly win on Thursday.
Hungary's Katinka Hosszu, the overall winner of the World Cup last year, added two more golds and a silver to her two golds, one silver and two bronzes from Thursday.
The 100m butterfly was the race of the day, with Clos edging out American Tom Shields by two-hundredth of a second in a thrilling encounter.
The FINA World Cup will now move on to Doha with competition starting on October 20.
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