World records tumble in pool
11/04/2008 21:12  - (SA)  

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Manchester - Kirsty Coventry of Zimbabwe and Felicity Galvez of Australia broke world records at the world short-course championships on Friday.

Coventry broke the 200m backstroke record by clocking two minutes 00:91 seconds to beat the 2:03:24 set by Reiko Nakamura of Japan in Tokyo in February.

Galvez set a world record in the 50m butterfly by finishing in 25:32s. Anna Kammerling of Sweden had set the previous mark of 25:33 in 2005.

- Reuters

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