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Coventry breaks women's 100m backstroke world record


Agence France-Presse
First Posted 10:27:00 08/11/2008

Filed Under: Sport, Summer Olympics, swimming

BEIJING -- Kirsty Coventry of Zimbabwe set a new world record in the women's 100m backstroke Monday with a time of 58.77 seconds in the semi-finals at the Beijing Olympics.

The previous record of 58.97 set by Natalie Coughlin at the US trials in Omaha, Nebraska on July 1.

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