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Singapore gets third Paralympic gold in its history thanks to swimming champ Yip Pin Xiu


National para-swimmer Yip Pin Xiu has won a second gold medal at the Rio Paralympics on Friday morning, local media reported.
She came in first in the women’s 50m backstroke S2 event with the timing of 1 min 00.33sec, followed by China’s Feng Yazhu (1:02.66) and Ukraine’s Iryna Sotska (1:17.22).
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The 24-year-old also won the 100m back S2 event last week, and set a new world record of 2min 7.09sec.
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Source: Mashable

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