Michael Phelps clinches Men’s 100m butterfly gold – London Olympic Games
The most decorated Olympian, Michael Phelps clinched gold medal of the Men’s 100m butterfly on seventh day of the swimming events at the 2012 London Olympic Games in London Aquatics Centre on Friday, August 3.
The 27-year-old Phelps showered his expertise in the double lap butterfly discipline to occupy his 17th Olympic gold medal and 21st Olympic medal. His incredible achievements in these Games are adding greatly to his record of having
most Olympic medals, achieved so far by any athlete.
Phelps, who just missed out on the wall behind Chad le Clos in the 200m butterfly, took his revenge by capturing gold medal of the 100m discipline in a comfortable manner.
With his impeccable pace, he stayed prominently ahead of his strongest rival, le Clos of South Africa, and tapped the finishing blockade for gold medal with a timing of 51.21 seconds.
His effort remained nearly 0.70 seconds slower from his own personal Olympic mark of 50.58 seconds, made by him at the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games.
Following that, the audience witnessed exhausting swims of le Clos and Evgeny Korotyshkin of Russian Federation for second spot of the event. Both swimmers involved each other in a neck-to-neck swim for second place and hit the finishing blockade with the
same timing of 51.44 seconds for silver medal.
Not only that, Milorad Cavic of Serbia and Steffen Deibler of Germany also engaged in a furious battle for fourth spot of the event. They tried hard to overpower each other over the finishing end but reached the wall for fourth position with a joint finish
in a time of 51.81 seconds.
The duo of fourth position holders was followed by Joeri Verlinden of Netherlands, who stayed only 0.01 seconds slower and settled on the finishing end with an effort of 51.82 seconds.
Verlinden was chased by Tyler McGill of USA, who secured seventh position of the swim by reporting a time of 51.88 seconds.
Subsequently, the American swimmer was followed by Konrad Czerniak of Poland, who posted 52.05 seconds for eighth position.
Furthermore, Phelps expressed happiness over his gold claiming effort at the victory ceremony of the event.
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