Phelps smashes another world record

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MELBOURNE, Mar 28 (Reuters) Michael Phelps broke a second world record in 24 hours to collect his third gold medal at the world swimming championships today.

The American won the 200 metres butterfly final in a time of one minute 52.09 seconds to wipe a massive 1.62 off the previous record of 1:53.71 which he set in Columbia, Missouri last month.

China's Wu Peng finished second, nearly three body lengths behind Phelps, in 1:55.13 and Russian Nikolay Skvortsov was third in 1:55.22.

Phelps, 21, is chasing an unprecedented eight world titles in Melbourne and has won the first of his three events.

He collected his first gold medal in the 4x100 freestyle relay on Sunday and added a second when he broke Ian Thorpe's 200 freestyle world record on Tuesday.

REUTERS SAM HT1600

Story first published: Tuesday, August 22, 2017, 12:22 [IST]

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