Michael Phelps won his fourth gold medal of the Rio Olympics and 22nd overall with a victory in the 200-meter individual medley Thursday night breaking a millenia-old Olympic record.
It was another one of the extraordinary swims for Phelps, 31, who now has two individual and two relay golds to his name at his fifth Olympics, two years after coming out of retirement.
Phelps finished the race in 1 minute, 54.66 seconds.
His competition and the other American, Lochte, didn’t even make it to the podium this time, after taking two silvers and a bronze behind Phelps at the last three Olympics in this event. Leading at the midway point, Lochte dropped to fifth.
Japan’s Kosuke Hagino won the silver, while China’s Wang Shun claimed the bronze.