“SYDNEY: Sweden’s Therese Alshammar broke her own 50m butterfly world record at the Australian swimming titles yesterday but was later disqualified by Swimming Australia for wearing two swimsuits.
World champion Alshammar set a time of 25.44 seconds in the morning qualifying heats to take 0.02 of a second off the record 25.46 she set at Barcelona, Spain on June 13, 2007.
But officials later discovered that Alshammar was wearing two suits in the race and the time would not stand. Swimming Au …”
(Via People’s Daily Online Overdressed swimmer stripped of world record: .)
