#Gold Michael Phelp won today his compatriot Ryan Lochte in the final of the 200m medley #Olympics

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Michael Phelps won a gold medal over to win the 200 meter individual medley

EFE | Date: 08/02/2012

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Michael Phelps assumed his gold medal in 200 meter individual medley.

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LONDON -  American Michael Phelps LONDON -  American Michael Phelp won today his compatriot Ryan Lochte in the final of the 200m medley and won his first individual gold over five days of competition in London in 2012. Phelps, one of the prettiest races of these Games, stopped the clock in 1:54.27 to win his Olympic medal twentieth, sixteenth and third consecutive gold in this distance, something no one had succeeded until now. After the swimmer from Baltimore (Maryland) touched the wall of the pool Lochte London, with 1:54.90, and the European champion of the 200 styles, 

Hungarian Laszlo Cseh, with 1:56.22. Phelps dominated the final from the first step to 24.63 in the butterfly, back 28.63, 33.33 and 27.68 in the breaststroke in the free end by 24.79, 29.10, 33.48 and 27.53, respectively, Lochte, while Cseh was faster in the breaststroke with 33.11, but slower than the Americans in the rest, with 25.03 in the butterfly, 29.82 in the breaststroke and 28.26 in free.All three swimmers repeated the podium in Beijing four years ago, but with the Magyars then in the second American silver and in bronze. Lochte, who came second in the 200 back after 

Tyler Clary, has the world record of this test in 1:54.00 from last year's World Cup in Shanghai when he established one of the two world records were lowered in 2011, the first after the ban on plastic washers in 2010. Of the two tests where there was a direct confrontation enter the two American stars, each won one, although in the 400 individual medley Phelps was fourth.The Brazilian Thiago Pereira was fourth behind Cseh. Pereira became the top three, made ​​two steps, the back and the guy in second place and seriously threatened Phelps, but remained free off the podium. The South American was 1:56.74.