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GV National flags.
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GV Contestants lining up to win. (6 SHOTS)
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GV Contestants diving and swimming one length of pool underwater, event won by Alexei Zhukov.
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GV 4 x 200 metres relay for women, won by USSR (5 SHOTS)
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GV Audience applauding men's 4 x 200 metres relay (won by USSR). (9 SHOTS)
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SPORT: SWIMMING

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Background: Soviet swimmers dominated the world high-speed underwater swimming championships held in Moscow on August 26, Several countries from western as well as eastern Europe, took part in a tournament where the leg action. Alexeit Zhukov of the Soviet Union established a world record time of 15.96 seconds in winning the 50 metre event for metres relay for men. Zhukov, in the fourth lane, was peerless. In the 4 x 200 metres relay for women, the Soviet team, also in lane four, set a world record time of 6 minutes 43.47 seconds. And to complete a very good day for the host nation, it won the men's 4 x 200 metres event. Again the fourth lane and a world record time of 6 minutes and 27 hundredths of a second.