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Liu breaks world record to win 200m freestyle S2 gold

Xinhua, September 12, 2016 Adjust font size:

China's Liu Benying set a new world record as he grabbed gold in the 200m freestyle S2 at the Rio Paralympics on Sunday.

The 20-year-old clocked three minutes 41.54 seconds to beat the previous record held by countryman Zou Liankang by almost eight seconds.

Zou took silver in 3:42.58 and Ukraine's Serhii Palamarchuk claimed bronze in 3:43.69.

Liu's limb impairment is the result of an accident when he was eight. Endit