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BERLIN : Olympic gold medallist Leisel Jones finished the weekend with two new world records after adding 200m breaststroke success on Sunday to her 100m triumph at the shortcourse World Cup meet here.
The 24-year-old, who won two golds and a silver in Beijing's Water Cube, won the 200m breaststroke here in a time of 2min 15.42sec to take more than a second off the previous record set by Canada's Annamay Pierse last August.
Jones' success on Sunday came a day after she broke her own world record in the women's shortcourse 100m breaststroke.
The 24-year-old clocked 1 min 3.00sec to lower her own mark of 1 min 3.72sec which she set six months ago in Canberra.
"It's been a good weekend, I am just enjoying being fit and I am enjoying racing," said Jones.
Having swum for Australia at the Sydney Olympic Games of 2000 as a 14-year-old, Jones also swum at Athens in 2004 and Beijing last year, but is setting her sights on the London Olympics for 2012.
"No Australian has done four Olympics, but I have been pretty lucky as I started when I was 14," said Jones, who won gold in the 100m breaststroke gold and 4x100m medley relay at Beijing plus a silver in the 200m breaststroke.
"I started quite young and I still love the sport.
"It's still less than three years away, so in terms of training it's not that much time.
"My body knows what it has to do and there is not that much improvement I would need to do for it. It doesn't feel that far away at all."
- AFP /ls
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