The United States won the men's 4x100-meter freestyle relay final at the world swimming championships on Sunday. Michael Phelps teamed up with Neil Walker, Cullen Jones and Jason Lezak to win the gold in a combined time of three minutes, 12.72 seconds, just 0.26 outside the world record the U.S. set in Canada last year. (WCSN, WCSN.com)
The 1500 meters at the World Championships in Australia included such competitors as American Silver medalist Larsen Jensen and Australians Grant Hacket.
American teenager Kate Ziegler beat Laure Manaudou of France in a last-lap sprint to win the women's 800-meter freestyle final. The 18-year-old trailed Manaudou when the pair turned for home for the last lap but surged past in the last couple of strokes to win the gold in eight minutes 18.52 seconds. (WCSN, WCSN.com)
South Korea's Park Tae Hwan won the men's 400-meter freestyle final on Sunday. Park stormed home on the final lap to win the gold in three minutes, 44.30 seconds, more than four seconds outside the world record of 3:40.08 set by the retired Australian Ian Thorpe. (WCSN, WCSN.com)
Panamanian Irving Saladino needed his final jump to eke out a win against the European champion Andrew Howe. Hot on the heels of Howe, who had just moved into first place on his last attempt, Saladino was not to be denied jumping 8.57 meters and setting a South American record. (WCSN, WCSN.com)
Michael Phelps broke a second world record in 24 hours to collect his third gold medal at the world swimming championships on Wednesday. The American won the 200-meter 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. (WCSN, WCSN.com)
Nastia Liukin (USA) returned to the Worlds this year to take back the balance beam world title she had won in 2005. After a solid performance with minor wobbles, Liukin dismounted with a two and a half twist that put her 0.125 ahead of Romania's Steliana Nistor, winning back her title. (WCSN, WCSN.com)
The American team nailed their landings and then extended their lead on the uneven bars when Nastia Liukin delighted the crowd with a complex series of releases and handstands and a tricky dismount to earn a 16.375. (WCSN, WCSN.com)
2008, Ostrava, the Golden Spike Grand Prix, IAAF World Athletics Tour, after taking the World Record last week in the 100m, Usain Bolt of Jamaica takes control of the 200m with a time of 19.83 seconds. (WCSN, WCSN.com)
2008, Stockholm, Sweden, IAAF Super Grand Prix, Mens 100m, former World Record holder Asafa Powell of Jamaica, defeated the current World Record holder, and fellow countrymen, Usain Bolt by a hundredth of a second, to take the gold with a time of 9.88 seconds. (Universal Sports, UniversalSports.com)
Austrian Matthias Lanzinger, with bib 30, crashed spectacularly out of his run in the latter stages of the Olympiabakken course and finished in the safety net. He was carried down on a sledge by officials, with his fall delaying the event by some 30 minutes. (WCSN, WCSN.com)
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