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Off to record: Swimmers in 200-metre freestyle event push off at Etobicoke Olympium last night
Off to record: Swimmers in 200-metre freestyle event push off at Etobicoke Olympium last night

Off to record: Swimmers in 200-metre freestyle event push off at Etobicoke Olympium last night

Date7/22/1980
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Original Toronto Star caption: Off to record: Swimmers in 200-metre freestyle event push off at Etobicoke Olympium last night. Wendy Quirk of Edmonton, in lane 4, won in 2:01.20, a Canadian record. She also broke Canadian and Commonwealth mark in 100-metre butterfly with time of 1:01.27. Etobicoke Olympium, located on Rathburn Road, north side, west of Renforth Drive. (43.650010, -79.584429)||Published in Toronto Star, 23 July 1980, page B6, with article ''It's not Moscow, but don't tell Wendy''
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0098288F
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