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Phelps Caps Trials With Another Win
posted 1:03 pm Sun July 06, 2008 -
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(Sports Network) - Michael Phelps won his fifth individual event at the U.S. Olympic Swimming trials by capturing the 100-meter butterfly Saturday night.
Phelps won in a time of 50.89 seconds to beat world record-holder Ian Crocker (51.62), and Gil Stovall (52.08) was third.
Phelps' four other titles at these trials were from the 200 and 400 individual medleys the 200 free and 200 butterfly.
Margaret Hoelzer set a world record in winning the 200-meter backstroke. She finished in a time of two minutes, 6.09 seconds, besting the previous old world mark of Zimbabwe's Kirsty Coventry (2:06.39) from this February.
Elizabeth Beisel, who was named to the Olympic team due to a second-place finish in the 400-meter individual medley, was second at 2:06.92, while Hayley McGregory, who set the early pace was third at 2:07.69.
Hoelzer was the fifth-place finisher in the 2004 Olympics in the 200 backstroke.
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Phelps' four other titles at these trials were from the 200 and 400 individual medleys the 200 free and 200 butterfly.
Margaret Hoelzer set a world record in winning the 200-meter backstroke. She finished in a time of two minutes, 6.09 seconds, besting the previous old world mark of Zimbabwe's Kirsty Coventry (2:06.39) from this February.Elizabeth Beisel, who was named to the Olympic team due to a second-place finish in the 400-meter individual medley, was second at 2:06.92, while Hayley McGregory, who set the early pace was third at 2:07.69.
Hoelzer was the fifth-place finisher in the 2004 Olympics in the 200 backstroke.
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