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  "id": 2386093,
  "title": "Swimming sensation Shannon Tan smashes Sukma record three times in a day",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/21/swimming-sensation-shannon-tan-smashes-sukma-record-three-times-in-a",
  "topic": "culture",
  "section": "Culture",
  "published": "2026-08-21T14:16:21.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Free Malaysia Today",
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    "url": "https://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/nation/2026/08/21/swimming-sensation-shannon-tan-smashes-sukma-record-three-times-in-a-day"
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  "summary": "Fifteen-year-old swimmer Shannon Tan Yan Qing smashed the Sukma record three times in a single day during the 2026 Malaysia Games, contributing to Selangor's two swimming gold medals. In the women's 200m butterfly heats, she set a new meet record of 2:15.77s, breaking the previous mark by Sarawak's Hii Siew Siew from 2012. In the final, she further improved her time to 2:15.13s, lowering her own meet record for the second time in a single day, and came within 0.83s of Khoo Cai Lin's national record of 2:14.30s set in 2009. Shannon then helped the hosts win gold in the women's 4x100m freestyle relay, breaking another Sukma record with a time of 3:54.54s, eclipsing the previous meet record of 3:55.84 set by Selangor last year.",
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        "outlet": "Free Malaysia Today",
        "title": "Swimming sensation Shannon Tan smashes Sukma record three times in a day",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/21/swimming-sensation-shannon-tan-smashes-sukma-record-three-times-in-a-2388983",
        "published": "2026-08-21T14:16:21.000Z"
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}