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Records set in 1996 Games:
World Records
MEN
SWIMMING
100 breaststroke/Prelims
Fred Deburghgraeve, Belgium, 1 minute, 00.60 seconds (Old record: 1:00:95, Karoly Guttler, Hungary, August 8, 1993).
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WEIGHTLIFTING
59 kg-130 pounds
Total -- Tang Ningsheng, China, 307.5 kilograms-678 pounds. (Old record: 305-672, Nikolay Pechalov, Bulgaria, 1993)
64kg-141 pounds
Clean-and-Jerk -- Naim Suleymanoglu, Turkey, 187.5 kilograms (413 1/4 pounds) (Old record: 183.0-403, Valkerios Leonidis, Greece, May 1995). Total -- Naim Suleymanoglu, Turkey, 335.0 kilograms (738 1/2 pounds) (Old record: 330.0-728, Suleymanoglu, Nov. 1994).
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WOMEN
SWIMMING
100 Breaststroke
Penny Heyns, South Africa, 1 minute, 7.02 seconds (Old record: 1:07.46, Heyns, March 1996)
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Olympic Records
MEN
SHOOTING
10 Air Pistol/Prelims
Wang Yifu, China, 587 points (Old record: Sorin Babil, Romania, 586, July 28, 1982).
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WOMEN
SHOOTING
10 Air Pistol/Prelims
Marina Logvinenko, Russia, 390 points (Old Record: Jasna Sekaric, Yugoslavia, 389, August 1, 1992).
10 Air Rifle/Prelims
Petra Homeber, Germany, 397 points (Old Record: Vessela Letcheva, Bulgaria and Kab-Soon Yeo, South Korea, 396, August 1992).
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