Rookie Leila Vaziri, joined the US ranks of world record breaking swimmers on Wednesday when she smashed the women's 50m backstroke mark in a semi-final at the world championships.
FOR someone who had never competed in the 50m backstroke until yesterday morning, American Leila Vaziri turned in a stunning performance last night. Vaziri added to the American team's impressive haul of world records when she qualified fastest for tonight's final. The 21-year-old, a 100m specialist, hit the wall in 28.16sec, shaving .03 off the mark set by German Janine Pietsch in Berlin in May, 2005 after earlier lowering the world championship record to 28.25 in the heats.
