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Full name | Nace Majcen | ||||||||||
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Born | Ljubljana, Slovenia, Yugoslavia | 12 July 1968||||||||||
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Sport | Swimming | ||||||||||
Strokes | Freestyle | ||||||||||
Club | Olimpija, Ljubljana | ||||||||||
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