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world record

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Noun1.world record - the best record in the whole world
record - an extreme attainment; the best (or worst) performance ever attested (as in a sport); "he tied the Olympic record"; "coffee production last year broke all previous records"; "Chicago set the homicide record"


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She turned under world record time after the butterfly then fell off the pace on backstroke before recovering strongly with impressive breaststroke and freestyle legs to clock 4mins 22.
Fellow South African Darian Townsend, who beat Phelps in the 200m individual medley in Berlin with a new world record of 1:51.
The Merseyside swimmer, 19, led Great Britain's charge with silver in the women's 100 metres freestyle before touching in third behind a world record swim from Holland's Hinkelien Schreuder in the 100m individual medley.
 
 
 
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