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Serbia’s Nadja Higl Ousts Rebecca Soni and Annamay Pierse at 200m Breast
On July - 31 - 2009
I tuned in today to watch the world swimming championship in Rome with only one thing in mind - to see how my countryman, Milorad Cavic from Serbia, would swim his 100m buttefly semifinal race. Little did I expect to hear my national anthem being played for a girl that, completely out of the blue, won the world champion title at 200m breaststroke today.
Her name is Nadja Higl, a 22-year-old girl from Pancevo, a town that's about 30 minutes away from Serbia's capitol city, Belgrade.
Back in the day when I used to practice swimming, I would see her at meets. ...