Croatia’s Duje Draganja Sets World Record at the Manchester Swimming Championships
April 11th, 2008
Zagreb, April 11 (CP) – Croatia’s swimmer Duje Draganja has set a world record in the men’s 50-meter freestyle at the short-course swimming world championships in Manchester.
Draganja entered the finals as the seventh competitor, but just crunched his competition when it came to the actual competition coming in at 21:81, 12 hundreds of a second faster than the earlier record set by Swede Stefan Nystrand in Berlin last year.
Draganja has in this was defended the gold medal he took in Shanghai in 2006.
Britain’s Mark Foster came in second and South Africa’s Gerhard Zandberg was third.
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