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Australian Leisel Jones smashed her new 100-metre breast-stroke world record at the Australian short course swimming championships here Monday.
Jones set a new world record of one minute 3.86 seconds in the final of the event, slashing the time of 1:04.12s she set in Sunday's semi-finals.
In her first world record of the meet in the semi-final, Jones slashed 0.67secs off the old mark set by American Tara Kirk in Texas in 2004.
"Obviously, it was a goal to improve on the 1:04 and didn't think I actually had it in me so I just had to psyche myself up for it and found something that I probably didn't think I had," she said after Monday's final.
Jones now holds the long and short course 100 and 200m breast-stroke world records.
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