Singapore swimmer Yip Pin Xiu, 16, who has muscular dystrophy, gets to the starting block for her 50m freestyle (S3) heats on the morning of Sept 13 with the help of swim team manager Danny Ong while her Mexican rival Patricia Valle (right) is carried and lowered into the water.
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Pin Xiu starts her 50m freestyle (S3) heats on the morning of Sept 13 with the help of swim team manager Danny Ong. Pin Xiu smashed Mexican rival Patricia Valle (right)'s world record, finishing first among 14 swimmers in 57.04, a new world record and more than 4 seconds off her personal best. Her coach Ang Peng Siong said that she has been clocking faster and faster times - doing world- record times even during training.
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Pin Xiu smiles when she sees the scoreboard flashing "world record" after she finished first in her 50m freestyle (S3) heats on the morning of Sept 13 as she grips the railing with her permanently-clenched hands.
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