Peirsol sets new world mark in 200 backstroke
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Indianapolis, IN (Sports Network) - Three-time gold medalist Aaron Peirsol broke his own short course world record in the 200 meter backstroke with an easy victory Monday night at the Short Course World Championships.
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INDIANAPOLIS: Michael Phelps made a winning return to the pool at the world short course championships today, capturing the 200m freestyle title and the first of a possible six gold medals.
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American Michael Phelps won the gold medal Tuesday in the 200-meter butterfly with an Olympic-record time of 1:54.04.
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ATHENS, Greece - The United States won the men's 400-meter medley relay in world-record time Saturday night, giving Michael Phelps his record eighth medal of the Athens Olympics without him getting into the pool. Aaron Peirsol, Brendan Hansen, Ian Crocker and Jason Lezak won in 3 minutes, 30.68 seconds, lowering the old mark of 3:31.54 set by the Americans at last year's world championships in Barcelona, Spain...
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Aaron Peirsol was awarded gold in the  men's 200 meters backstroke at the Athens Olympics on Thursday  after winning an appeal against his disqualification then  surviving a protest from the British and Austrian teams.
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ATHENS, Aug. 18 Â It was a scourge from the cold war era, standing for exactly 17 years like a stubborn sliver of the Berlin Wall. It was the longest-standing record in swimming, sobering proof that the sport had not quite escaped the specter of performance-enhancing drugs.
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The United States and Australia set  world records in the men's and women's 4x100 medley relay races  on Saturday, the final day of swimming competition at the  Athens 2004 Olympics.
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Michael Phelps (U.S.) won the men's 200  meters butterfly swimming gold medal at the Olympics on  Tuesday.
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Indianapolis - Olympic champion Aaron Peirsol broke his own 200-metre backstroke world record and helped the Americans set a 4x100 medley relay world mark on Monday at the World Short Course Swim Championships.
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ATHENS, Greece - Ian Thorpe won the most anticipated duel at the Olympic pool, taking gold in the 200-meter freestyle Monday night and ensuring that Michael Phelps won't match Mark Spitz's record of seven gold medals. Defending Olympic champion Pieter van den Hoogenband of the Netherlands got off to a quick start - more than 1 second under world-record pace at the halfway point - but couldn't maintain it...
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ATHENS, Aug. 19 (Xinhuanet) -- FINA, the swimming&#39;s world governing body, has rejected protest from national federations of Britain and Austria over American Aaron Peirsol&#39;s reinstatement after he was disqualified in the 200m backstroke final at the ...
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Australia's Ian Thorpe won the gold  medal in the men's 200 meters freestyle, dubbed the "race of  the century," at the Athens Olympics on Monday.
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American Michael Phelps won his fourth gold medal of the Olympics in the 200-meter individual medley Thursday night, leading the entire race. Phelps finished in an Olympic-record time of 1 minute, 57.14 seconds, lowering his own mark of 1:58.52 set in the semifinals one night earlier.
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Michael Phelps, denied in his bid to win seven gold medals, picked up his second victory of the Athens Games by winning the 200-meter butterfly Tuesday night in Olympic-record time. Phelps fell just short of his own world record, holding off Takashi Yamamoto to win in 1 minute, 54.01 seconds. The hard-charging Japanese swimmer took silver in 1:54.56, while Great Britain's Stephen Parry won bronze in 1:55.22.
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Australia's Jodie Henry armed herself  with a world record while Michael Phelps targeted his fourth  Olympic gold medal backed by a Games record in qualifying for  Thursday's finals.
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ATHENS, Greece -- American Michael Phelps won the gold medal Friday in the 100-meter butterfly with an Olympic-record time of 51.25 seconds.
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* With star swimmer Michael Phelps watching from the stands after giving his spot to teammate Ian Crocker, the United States won gold in the men&#39;s 400-meter medley relay in a world-record time of 3:30.