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Radanova breaks second world record

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Posted: Saturday November 07, 1998 03:27 PM

BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) -- Evgeniya Radanova of Bulgaria broke the 500-meter short track speed skating world record by nearly two-tenths of a second Saturday, winning her World Cup race in 44.690 seconds.

Canadian Isabelle Charest set the previous mark of 44.867 seconds in March 1997.

Radanova beat out South Korea's Choi Min-Kyung and American Amy Peterson, both of whom also broke the old mark with times of 44.762 and 44.844 seconds.

Radanova's also broke the 1,500-meter record on Friday.

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