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| Michael Phelps flops on record-breaking day |
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Thursday, November 12, 2009
STOCKHOLM: Swimming legend Michael Phelps shunned the high-tech swimsuit and paid the price on a day when four world records were set in the fourth leg of the short-course World Cup here on Tuesday.
The 24-year-old US star failed to qualify for the final in two out of the three races he contested, before finishing the day with bronze in the 100m individual medley.
He was then disqualified in the 100 backstroke heats for an overlong push-off.
Phelps did make the final of the 100m individual medley and claimed the bronze in 52.14 behind South African winner Gerhard Zandberg who clocked 51.77 and Russia’s Sergey Fesikov (51.86).
Phelps is also expected to swim the 100 metre butterfly and the 200 metre individaul medley on Wednesday.
Australia’s Felicity Galvez broke the 100 metres butterfly mark, timing 55.46 seconds to eclipse the previous record of 55.68sec set by compatriot Jessicah Schipper in Hobart, Australia, on August 12 this year.
And Brazilian swimmer Kaio Almeida broke the men’s 200 metres butterfly world record, timing 1 minute 49.11 seconds, to bettered the 1:50.53 set by Russia’s Nikolay Skvortsov on February 11 in St-Petersburg.
Nystrand gave the home crowd something to cheer when he claimed gold in the 100m freestyle.
Germany’s Paul Biedermann, who beat Phelps in the 200m freestyle at the world championships this year in Rome was forced out of the 100m and 400m freestyle event because of a thigh injury.
Also failing to make it into the final of the 100m freestyle were French speedster Frederic Bousquet (47.53secs), Australia’s Eamon Sullivan (47.38secs) and Filipo Magnini of Italy (47.74secs).
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