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Thursday, August 14, 2008

Rice wins third gold in relay victory


Stephanie Rice won her third gold medal of the Beijing Games by leading off Australia's victorious women's 4x200 metres freestyle relay team on Thursday.

The Australian quartet of Rice, Bronte Barratt, Kylie Palmer and Linda Mackenzie set a new world record of seven minutes 44.31 seconds, shaving 5.78 seconds off the previous record set by the United States at the world championships in Melbourne last year.

China won silver with the heavily-favoured US. team winning bronze. Rice has also won gold in the 200 and 400 metres individual medley and has set the world record with all three of her victories.

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