SYDNEY, March 25: Australian teenager Stephanie Rice broke her second world record in three days at the national Olympic trials on Tuesday.

The 19-year-old added the 200 metres individual medley record to the 400 mark she claimed on Saturday when she stopped the clock at 2min 08.92secs.

Her time slashed 0.80 off the previous record of 2:09.72, set by China’s Wu Yanyan at Shanghai in 1997, which was the second oldest long course (50-metre pool) world record still standing.

Rice, who snatched the 400 record from American Katie Hoff on the weekend, became the first woman since East Germany’s Petra Schneider in 1980 to hold both individual medal records at the same time.—Reuters