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Rice sets 200 individual medley world record

Tue 25 Mar, 09:43 AM


Rice celebrates setting a new world record at the Australian team selection trials for the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games, in Sydney

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SYDNEY (Reuters) - Stephanie Rice set a world record of two minutes 08.92 seconds for the women's 200 metres individual medley at the Australian Olympic trials on Tuesday.

Rice, 19, sliced 0.80 off the previous record of 2:09.72 set by China's Wu Yanyan at Shanghai in 1997.

Rice reacts after setting a new world record at the Australian team selection trials for the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games, in Sydney

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Rice also broke the 400 individual medley record on Saturday.

(Reporting by Julian Linden. Editing by Martin Petty)