SWM: The Olympic challenge facing Phelps

AAP General News (Australia)
08-20-2004
SWM: The Olympic challenge facing Phelps

ATHENS, Aug 19 AFP - Michael Phelps won gold in the 200m individual medley tonight
to take his Olympic medal tally to four gold and two bronze.

This is how Phelps stacks up in his Olympic events:

400m individual medley - Gold medal in world record of 4:08.26

4x100m free relay - Bronze medal behind world record-setting South Africa and the Netherlands

200m freestyle - Bronze medal behind world record-holder Ian Thorpe and former world
record-holder Pieter van den Hoogenband

200m butterfly - Gold medal in Olympic record of 1:54.04

4x200m free relay - Gold medal, ending Australia's international unbeaten streak that
dated to 1997 Pan Pacific Championships

200m individual medley - Gold medal in Olympic record of 1:57.14

Remaining events

4x100m medley relay - United States have never lost at Olympics

100m butterfly - Led the semi-final times with an Olympic record of 51.61 on Thursday night.

AFP nh

KEYWORD: OLY SWM PHELPS FACTBOX

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