After losses in the 400m IM and 200m butterfly, Phelps takes his first individual gold medal by beating Ryan Lochte in the 200m IM
LONDON – Michael Phelps delivered one more history-making Olympic performance Thursday, August 2, winning the 200m medley to become the first man to win the same individual swimming event at three straight Games.
Phelps, already denied trebles in London in the 400m medley and 200m butterfly, delivered a vintage performance to win in 1min 54.27sec and collect his 20th career Olympic medal — and his 16th gold.
He subdued his great rival — team-mate Ryan Lochte — who settled for silver in 1:54.90.
Hungarian Laszlo Cseh earned bronze in 1:56.22.
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