Swim: Coventry sets 400 individual medley mark
Associated Press
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MANCHESTER, England — Kirsty Coventry of Zimbabwe has set a world record in the 400-meter individual medley at the short-course swimming world championships.
Coventry finished in 4 minutes, 26.52 seconds at the M.E.N. Arena today.
Yana Klochkova of Ukraine set the previous world mark of 4:27.83 in 2002.
Hannah Miley of Britain finished second in 4:27.27 and Mireia Belmonte of Spain took bronze in 4:27.55 — both also ahead of Klochkova's old mark.
At the 2004 Athens Olympics, Coventry won the 200 backstroke, finished second in the 100 back and third in the 200 individual medley.
