De Bruijn wins
women's 50-meter gold
Metella of France wins silver,
Lenton from Australia takes bronze
 Mark Baker / AP Inge de Bruijn reacts after winning gold in the 50-meter freestyle on Saturday. |
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| G | S | B | TOT | |
| USA | 35 | 39 | 29 | 103 |
| RUS | 27 | 27 | 38 | 92 |
| CHN | 32 | 17 | 14 | 63 |
| AUS | 17 | 16 | 16 | 49 |
| GER | 14 | 16 | 18 | 48 |
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ATHENS, Greece - Inge de Bruijn of the Netherlands won the 50-meter freestyle for the second consecutive Olympics on Saturday night.
De Bruijn’s time of 24.58 seconds was 26-hundredths of a second slower than her winning time at the Sydney Games. Malia Metella of France earned silver in 24.89 and Lisbeth Lenton of Australia took bronze in 24.91.
De Bruijn, who turns 31 on Tuesday, became the first woman to win consecutive sprint titles since the event was added to the Olympic program in 1988.
“This is just the best birthday present I could hope for. A gold in the last day of the program — what a climax,” the Dutchwoman said. “It’s an amazing feeling.”
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Therese Alshammar of Sweden, the silver medalist in Sydney, was fourth.
Kara Lynn Joyce of Ann Arbor, Mich., was fifth in 25 seconds.
American Jenny Thompson’s bid to win the first individual gold medal of her career ended in a seventh-place finish. Her time of 25.11 was more than half a second slower than de Bruijn.
Thompson has 11 career medals, nine of them on relays.
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