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The Italian men's 4x50-metre medley relay team broke their second world record yesterday to win gold at the European short-course swimming championship.
The Italians - Mirco Di Tora, Alessandro Terrin, Marco Belotti and Filippo Magnini - swam 1 minute, 32.91 seconds, 0.85 seconds faster than the mark set by the Russian team earlier in the day.