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Swimming-Veldhuis breaks own 50 freestyle short-course record

Sun Apr 13, 2008 9:13pm IST
 
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MANCHESTER, England, April 13 (Reuters) - Marleen Veldhuis of the Netherlands broke her own women's 50 metres freestyle world short-course record at the world short-course swimming championships on Sunday.

Veldhuis clocked 23.25 seconds to beat the 23.58 she set in Berlin on Nov. 17, 2007. (Reporting by Derek Parr; editing by Rex Gowar)

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