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Kenya’s Abubakar breaks record set in 2006 at Commonwealth Games

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Swimmer Ridhwan Abubakar (right) with his former coach Fakry Mansoor. [Courtesy]

Kenya’s Ridhwan Abubakar boosted his chances of shinning at the Commonwealth Games after he smashed a 16-year-old national record during the Plymouth Leander Spring Level One Long Course swimming championships, in the United Kingdom.

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