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Valentina Yegorova of the Unified Team won the closest Olympic Marathon ever, beating Japan's Yuko Arimori by only 8 seconds. The closest Men's marathon took place in 1920. Finland's Hannes Kolehmainen beat Estonia's Juri Lossman by 12.8 seconds.
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Youngest swimming medalists
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Event |
Age |
| Kyoko Iwasaki (Japan) |
women's 200 m breastroke (1992) |
14 years and 9 days old
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| Kriszstina Egerszegi (Hungary) |
Women's 200 m backstroke (1988) |
14 years and 41 days old
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| Debra Watson (USA) |
4 x 100 meter freestyle |
14 years and 97 days |
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Kieren Perkins of Australia won the 1,500 meter freestyle in 14:43.28 -- a new world record. Perkins would have beaten the aggregate time of the first 15 winners of the 100m freestyle (1896-1964) by 37.5 seconds!
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