Phelps wins more gold in relay; Hosszu sets Olympic record; Zhiyong wins weightlifting
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2016-08-10
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Michael Phelps claimed his second gold medal in one night and the 21st of his career as the United States won the men's 4x200 meters Olympic freestyle relay on Tuesday (August 9).
The most successful Olympian of all time swam the final leg to extend his career tally to a total of 25 medals, also including two silver and two bronze.
Earlier he had won gold number 20 with victory in the 200m butterfly.
It was the fourth successive U.S. Olympic victory in the event.
The Americans led throughout, with Conor Dwyer handing over to Townley Haas and Ryan Lochte. There was a huge roar from the Rio crowd when Phelps sprang from the block with a lead of 1.76 seconds over Japan, and 2.88 seconds over Britain.
The Americans touched home in 7 minutes 00.66 seconds.
Hungary's Katinka Hosszu, who despite five world titles had come away empty-handed from three previous Olympics, won her third gold medal with victory in the women's 200 individual medley.
The 27-year-old, who set an Olympic record of 2:06.58, had already won the 400 individual medley on Saturday and 100 backstroke on Monday.
Britain's Siobhan-Marie O'Connor took silver, with Maya DiRado of the U.S. winning a bronze to add to her silver in the longer distance.
Hosszu, the 'Iron Lady' who withdrew from the 200 butterfly earlier on Tuesday to prepare for the individual medley final, is entered in one more individual event, the 200 backstroke.
If she wins that she would equal the women's record of four solo swimming golds at a single Games set by East Germany's Kristin Otto in Seoul in 1988.
Elsewhere, in weightlifting, China's Shi Zhiyong won the men's 69kg gold medal and became an Olympic champion just the like the man whose name he was given when he was a teenager.
The older Shi, 36, won the 62kg title at the 2004 Athens Games to become a national hero and is now a government official.
The new Shi won with a 352kg total on Tuesday, edging Turkey's Daniyar Ismayilov, who made six good lifts, by just one kilo.
Izzat Artykov took bronze with a 339kg total, winning a first Olympic weightlifting medal for Kyrgyzstan.
The most successful Olympian of all time swam the final leg to extend his career tally to a total of 25 medals, also including two silver and two bronze.
Earlier he had won gold number 20 with victory in the 200m butterfly.
It was the fourth successive U.S. Olympic victory in the event.
The Americans led throughout, with Conor Dwyer handing over to Townley Haas and Ryan Lochte. There was a huge roar from the Rio crowd when Phelps sprang from the block with a lead of 1.76 seconds over Japan, and 2.88 seconds over Britain.
The Americans touched home in 7 minutes 00.66 seconds.
Hungary's Katinka Hosszu, who despite five world titles had come away empty-handed from three previous Olympics, won her third gold medal with victory in the women's 200 individual medley.
The 27-year-old, who set an Olympic record of 2:06.58, had already won the 400 individual medley on Saturday and 100 backstroke on Monday.
Britain's Siobhan-Marie O'Connor took silver, with Maya DiRado of the U.S. winning a bronze to add to her silver in the longer distance.
Hosszu, the 'Iron Lady' who withdrew from the 200 butterfly earlier on Tuesday to prepare for the individual medley final, is entered in one more individual event, the 200 backstroke.
If she wins that she would equal the women's record of four solo swimming golds at a single Games set by East Germany's Kristin Otto in Seoul in 1988.
Elsewhere, in weightlifting, China's Shi Zhiyong won the men's 69kg gold medal and became an Olympic champion just the like the man whose name he was given when he was a teenager.
The older Shi, 36, won the 62kg title at the 2004 Athens Games to become a national hero and is now a government official.
The new Shi won with a 352kg total on Tuesday, edging Turkey's Daniyar Ismayilov, who made six good lifts, by just one kilo.
Izzat Artykov took bronze with a 339kg total, winning a first Olympic weightlifting medal for Kyrgyzstan.
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