Swimming
Starts With New Record
LIMASSOL, 2 June 2009 -
Two new Games Records were set during the
opening day of the Swimming events of the XIII Games of
the Small States of Europe.
Fourteen-year-old Sarah Rolko from
Luxembourg finished the Women's 200m Backstroke
semifinal with 2:20.13, breaking the previous record of
2:20.85, held by Iceland's Eydis Konradsdottir from
1999.
In the Women's 100m Freestyle semifinals,
Ragnheidur Ragnarsdottir from Iceland set a new Games
Record with 56.53, bettering the time of 57.57 by Lara
Heinz of Luxembourg from 2003.
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