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Who held the 100m butterfly world record for the longest time?
Mary T. Meagher (USA). She held it for 19 years (1980 to 1999), improving her own record once in 1981. During that time she also won the 1984 Olympic Games in that event. |
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Who broke Mary T. Meagher's record?
Jenny Thompson (USA), holding it for only 9 months. |
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Who won the 2004 Athens Olympic Games?
Petria Thomas (AUS). She won the first Australian gold medal in the 100m butterfly since 1968, when Lynette Mc Clements took home the gold medal for her country. That makes a total of only two Olympic gold medals for Australia in this event.
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Who is the current world record holder?
Inge de Bruijn (NED). She has been holding the world record since 05-27-2000. The current world record time is 56.61 sec. Inge also won two Olympic medals, a gold in 2000 and a bronze in 2004. |
