Phelps' eight steps to greatness
US swimming star Michael Phelps has broken Mark Spitz's 36-year-old record of seven gold medals in a single Olympic Games.
Here we review Phelps' eight victories on his path to Olympic history.
Final 1 - 400m Individual Medley
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Video - Golden Phelps smashes record
When:
Sunday 10 August
Result:
GOLD - Phelps shaves more than a second off his own record to claim his first gold of the Beijing Games.
Personal best:
4:03.84s (New world record)
How he did in Athens:
Gold medal
Final 2 - 4x100m Freestyle Relay
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Video - Phelps seals second gold in relay
When:
Monday 11 August
Result:
GOLD - Phelps and team-mates regain the title and set a new world record, staging a marvellous comeback in the closest of races.
Personal best:
3:08.24s (New world record)
How he did in Athens:
Bronze medal
Final 3 - 200m Freestyle
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Video - Phelps powers to third gold
When:
Tuesday 12 August
Result:
GOLD - Phelps finished nearly two seconds clear of his nearest rival, South Korea's Park Tae-hwan.
Personal best:
1:42.96 (New world record)
How he did in Athens:
Bronze medal
Final 4 - 200m Butterfly
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Video - Phelps makes history with butterfly gold
When:
Wednesday 13 August
Result:
GOLD - Phelps breaks the world record to claim a landmark 10th Olympic gold medal.
Personal best:
1:52.03 (New world record)
How he did in Athens:
Gold medal
Final 5 - 4x200m Freestyle Relay
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Video - Phelps bags fifth gold in relay
When:
Wednesday 13 August
Result:
GOLD - Phelps and team-mates go under seven minutes for the first time in relay history to cruise to victory.
Personal best:
6:58.56 (New world record)
How he did in Athens:
Gold medal
Final 6 - 200m Individual Medley
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Video - Phelps helps himself to another gold
When:
Friday 15 August
Result:
GOLD - Phelps dominates from start to finish, winning by more than two seconds in another world record time
Personal best:
1:54.23 (New world record)
How he did in Athens:
Gold medal
Final 7 - 100m Butterfly
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Video - Phelps wins by a whisker
When:
Saturday 16 August
Result:
GOLD - In his most dramatic final yet Phelps is well down at the turn, but somehow fights his way back to beat Serbia's Milorad Cavic by just a hundredth of a second.
Personal best:
50.58 (Olympic record)
How he did in Athens:
Gold medal
Final 8 - 4x100m Medley Relay
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Video - Phelps wins record eighth gold
When:
Sunday 17 August
Result:
GOLD - At halfway the result is in doubt, but storming legs from Phelps and team mate Jason Lezak hand victory to the US, and a place in history to Michael Phelps
Personal best:
3:29.34 (US team world record)
How he did in Athens:
Gold medal
Story from BBC SPORT:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/sport2/hi/olympics/swimming/7549701.stm
Published: 2008/08/16 06:16:32 GMT
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