Ukrainian-origin Turkish swimmer Victoria Zeynep Güneş who is known in Turkey as New Hürrem referring to Ottoman Sultan Süleyman the Magnificent's Ukrainian wife Hürrem, has set another record for her new country. After she had won the women's 50-meter breaststroke title at the fifth World Junior Championships recently, a first in Turkey's history, Güneş broke the world record in 200m breakstroke with a 2:19.64 performance in the sixth and final day at the fifth World Junior Championships held in Singapore, yesterday. Güneş had claimed the 200-meter breaststroke title in the 2013 World Junior Swimming Championships for Ukraine before acquiring Turkish citizenship in 2014. On Sunday, she went for a sweep of gold medals in all three distances of her stroke, something that has never been done in Junior World Championships history. Already the junior world record-holder in the 200 breaststroke, Güneş won and brought Turkey its fourth gold medal of the tournament. Seventeen-year-old Viktoria Zeynep Güneş has made herself a strong candidate - if not the front-runner - for the honor of top female swimmer at the 2015 FINA World Junior Championships. But she's also lifting her new swimming nation to heights it has never seen before. In four days in Singapore, Güneş has won Turkey's first three long course world-level swimming medals of all-time.

Güneş has only been competing for Turkey since 2014, and the story of how she wound up in a Turkish swim cap is an interesting one. A child swimming prodigy in Ukraine, Güneş competed under the name Viktoria Solnceva, setting Ukrainian records in the 100 and 200 breaststrokes by age 15 - national records she still holds.But when Russia controversially invaded the Ukraine in 2014, Solnceva and her family quickly packed up their lives and fled to Turkey, changing their name to Güneş in the process.

Viktoria quickly caught on with the swimming federation in her new homeland, and has brought Turkey to an unprecedented level in world swimming. Prior to 2015, Turkey had never won a long-course swimming medal on the world stage. The only world-level swimming medal in the country's history is a 2000 bronze medal from short course worlds, won by Derya Büyükuncu in the 100 backstroke. But in just a week, Güneş has piled up three Junior World Champs gold medals for her new nation, with at least one more medal likely to follow later this week.

Currently, Güneş ranks inside the top 11 in the world in all three of her events for the year: Number six in the 50, number 11 in the 100 and number seven in the 200, before even swimming that final event at the Junior Worlds.