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Twelve-year-old Eashwarage shines in Canada Ranumi Eashwarage Source:Dailynews Ranumi Eashwarage is a Canadian born swimmer of Sri Lankan origin. She is currently the fastest 12 years old female sprinter in Canada for her age in butterfly and freestyle. On July 10th, 2022, Ranumi engraved her name in Canadian record books with a new Alberta provincial age group record for the girls 12 and under 50m butterfly short course. That 50-butterfly time broke the previous record once was held by Tokyo 2020 Olympic silver medalist Rebecca Smith and after her, Canadian National team swimmer Kyla Leibel for the last eight years. This 12-year old’s 50m butterfly time is faster than the current Sri Lankan woman’ national record for this event of all ages. “It’s amazing. It was the last day of the meet. I was just trying to put in every bit of strength I had in me. I knew coming ...