Phelps breaks 200m free world record for third gold

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Beijing: American swimming marvel Michael Phelps won his third gold medal at the Beijing Olympics with another world record swim in the 200 metres freestyle final on Tuesday.

The 23-year-old world champion smashed his own world record by 0.90sec in a time of one minute 42.96 seconds.

It was his ninth Olympic gold medal overall after he won six at the 2004 Athens Olympics.

Phelps is bidding to win eight golds at a single Games and beat the 1972 record of seven set by American Mark Spitz.

Phelps won the 200m freestyle event which eluded him in Athens when he was a bronze medallist behind Australian Ian Thorpe.

He won his other two gold medals in the Beijing pool in the 400m medley and 4x100m freestyle relay.


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