Transgender swimmer Lia Thomas wins 100-yard freestyle for third title at Ivy women's championships
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University of Pennsylvania swimmer Lia Thomas won the 100-yard freestyle in a meet record of 47.63 seconds on Saturday at the Ivy League women's swimming and diving championships.
This marks her third title of the competition.
Thomas, a transgender woman, narrowly beat out Yale's Iszac Henig, a transgender man, who finished in 47.82 seconds. Princeton's Nikki Venema took third, finishing in 48.81 seconds.
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