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- ↑ "2017 World Aquatics Championships > Search via Athletes". Budapest 2017. Archived from the original on 2 August 2019. Retrieved 26 July 2017.
- 1 2 "Girls' 50 metre backstroke". 2018 Summer Youth Olympics – FINA.org. Archived from the original on 8 January 2020. Retrieved 9 August 2020.
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