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Brown Quits Swimming
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Australian world record holder Rebecca Brown has announced her retirement from swimming at the age of 21.
Brown was touted as a star in the making after she broke American Anita Nall's 200 meters breaststroke record as a 16-year-old schoolgirl in 1994.
Brown's time of two minutes 24.76 seconds still stands but proved to be the high point in a career which failed to take off as expected.
She was beaten by fellow Australian Samantha Riley at the 1994 Commonwealth Games in Canada, then missed out on a medal at the world championships in Rome that year.
She then failed to qualify for the Australian team for the 1996 Atlanta Olympics and also missed out on a place for this year's world championships in Perth.
She decided to retire after failing to make the Australian team for the Commonwealth Games in Malaysia in September.
``My body has changed and my stroke has changed, I am a completely different person and I am not sure I can do it again,'' she told The Australian newspaper.
``I have had enough. I had put a lot of years into it and it's time to move on and get a job and live a normal life.''
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