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- ↑ "Aissata Toure Bio, Stats, and Results". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Archived from the original on 2020-04-18. Retrieved 2020-04-18.
- ↑ "Women's 100m Results: Preliminaries". London 2012. Archived from the original on 2012-12-05. Retrieved 2012-08-05.
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