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Tag: Felicity Galvez

  • Nugent might tweak selections to ensure Thorpe a London spot

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    While the selection criteria is usually non-negotiable, Australia’s head coach Leigh Nugent might seek board approval from Swimming Australia to change the rules if Thorpe missed the team by finishing seventh in either the 100m or 200m freestyle. This has been done before, last year the rules were altered to give Libby Trickett a chance…

  • Galvez Sets 100 Butterfly World Record

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    Australia’s Felicity Galvez set a new 100 meter butterfly short course world record this evening, at the Fina World Cup 2009 meet in Stockholm, with a time of 55.46, where Australia’s Jessicah Schipper’s world record was 55.68. See results

  • Galvez Betters 50 Fly World Record

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    Australia’s Felicity Galvez has set a new world record in the short course 50 meter fly at Manchester 2008, with the time of 25.32, a hundredth of a second faster than the now former world record of 25.33, that Sweden’s Anna-Karin Kammerling set in 2005. See SwimInfo and SwimNews.