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Freestyle record beaten for second time in nine days
Key takeaways
- Walsh finished fourth in the 50m freestyle at the Paris Olympics
- American swimmer Gretchen Walsh has broken the women's 50m freestyle world record just nine days after her training partner Kate Douglass set the mark.
- Walsh clocked 23.55 seconds at the Sette Colli meeting in Rome on Sunday, beating Douglass' time from 19 June by 0.04 seconds.
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Walsh finished fourth in the 50m freestyle at the Paris Olympics
American swimmer Gretchen Walsh has broken the women's 50m freestyle world record just nine days after her training partner Kate Douglass set the mark.
Walsh clocked 23.55 seconds at the Sette Colli meeting in Rome on Sunday, beating Douglass' time from 19 June by 0.04 seconds.
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