Phelps grabs another golden world record
Agence France-Presse
First Posted 12:03:00 08/15/2008

BEIJING — American phenomenon Michael Phelps won his sixth gold medal with his sixth world record of the program to claim the 200 meters individual medley final at the Beijing Olympics on Friday.

The 23-year-old superstar was under world record pace throughout and hit the wall in one minute 54.23 seconds, shaving 0.57sec off his own record of 1:57.80 set in the US Olympic trials in Omaha, Nebraska on July 4 this year.

Phelps was unstoppable once again and finished well clear of Hungary’s Laszlo Cseh, who posted a European record of 1:56.52, with American teammate Ryan Lochte taking the bronze in 1:56.53.

Only 30 minutes earlier Lochte had broken the men’s 200m backstroke world record in winning Olympic gold in 1min 53.94.

Phelps, the dominant story of the Beijing Olympics, has now won the 400m medley, 200 freestyle, 200 butterfly, 4×100m free relay, 4×200 free relay and now the 200 medley, all in world record time.

The three podium finishers in the 200m medley duplicated the medal winners in the 400 medley final.

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