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Agostina Hein Wins World Junior 400m IM, Breaks Argentine Record

The 17-year-old lowered Georgina Bardach’s 2004 national mark with a 4:34.34 that also set a championship record.

Agostina Hein sigue creciendo: logró el mayor título de su carrera
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Overview

  • Hein captured gold in Otopeni, Romania, in her first event of the meet, winning the 400m individual medley decisively.
  • In morning heats she posted a personal best of 4:37.87, then dropped more than three seconds in the final.
  • Britain’s Amalie Smith took silver in 4:35.49 and Japan’s Shuna Sasaki earned bronze in 4:38.94.
  • The victory makes Hein only the second Argentine woman to win a World Junior swimming title, following Delfina Pignatiello in 2017.
  • She enters the rest of the week with three more starts scheduled: the 800m freestyle on Wednesday and the 400m freestyle and 200m individual medley on Friday.