Michael Phelps of USA won his record eighth gold medal in the 4 x 100m Medley relay final at the Beijing Olympics 2008.It was his 14th Career Olympic gold, 5 more than any other athlete in Olympic History.
Michael Phelps along with teammates Aaron Peirsol, Brendan Hansen and Jason Lezak set a world record bettering their own record, which they set at Athens in 2004.They finished the race in a world record time 3:29.34 bettering the 3:30.68 set at Athens.By Clinching his eighth gold medal out of eight races! he has become the first player in history to surpass Mark Spitz's(USA) record of 7 gold medals which he set at the 1972 Munich Olympic Games.Read more here.........
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