Austrian swimmer Mirna Jukic, bronze medalist of women's 100m breaststroke at the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games, created a new European 200m breaststroke record on Saturday in Vienna. In the women's 200-meter breaststroke competition at the Strock-Austria-Meeting in Vienna, Jukic improved the best record in Europe by 0.45 seconds, with a final result of 2 minutes and 22 seconds 46.

Nevertheless, her result still has a gap of 2 seconds 24 from the world record set by American swimmer Rebecca Soni at the Beijing Olympics.

Mirna Jukic of Austria swims on her way to win the silver medal in the women's 200m breaststroke final during the European Short Course Swimming Championships in Rijeka December 12, 2008

In the women's 100-meter breaststroke competition on Friday, the 23-year-old Jukic got the result of 1 minute and 07 seconds 00, improving her Olympic bronze medal performance by 0.34 seconds.

Jukic was honored as Austria's athlete of the year in 2002 and 2008.

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