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Phelps breaks world swimming record

Steve Keating
OMAHA, Nebraska
Sat Jul 5, 2008 8:17am EDT
Michael Phelps swims to a win in the Men's 200m Individual Medley setting a new world record at the U.S. Olympic Swimming Trials in Omaha, Nebraska, July 4, 2008. REUTERS/Jeff Haynes

OMAHA, Nebraska (Reuters) - Michael Phelps broke his own world record in the 200 meters individual medley at the U.S. Olympic swim trials on Friday, clocking a time of one minute, 54.80 seconds.

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Pushed to the wall by good friend and rival Ryan Lochte, Phelps sliced 0.18 seconds of his old mark of 1:54.98 set at last year's world championships in Melbourne.

It was the seventh world record to fall at the trials and the second by Phelps, who bettered his own mark in the 400 medley on Sunday.

With the win, Phelps has now qualified in four individual events for the Beijing Olympics and is aiming to beat Mark Spitz's record haul of seven gold medals at a single Games.

(Editing by Martin Petty) (For more stories visit our multimedia website "Road to Beijing" here; and see our blog at blogs.reuters.com/china)
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