LZR Racer Results
Fastskin LZR Racer
- 15th August 2008
- Phelps Breaks 6th World Record and Wins 6th Gold
- Phelps broke his 6th World Record (WR) of the games this morning in the 200m Individual Medley. He was after his 6th gold and had no problem winning it. With the crowd behind him all the way, the Phelps went storming ahead of Cseh and Lochte.
Around 30 minutes prior to that race, Joint WR holders and US team mates, Aaron Piersol and Ryan Lochte battled it out in the 200m Backstroke. They went head to head throughout the race but during the final lap the pair staged a dramatic dual. With only strokes to go, Lochte went ahead to take the gold and break a new WR at 1:53.94. Piersol picked up the silver (1.54.33) in a Speedo LZR RACER. We spoke to Lochte’s father after the race, he told us:
“I always told him you can be good but to be the best you need to break the World Record and win an Olympic gold. This puts him at a different level”.
World Champion and WR holder Liesel Jones (AUS) was fiercely challenged by Olympic Record holder Rebecca Soni (USA) in the 200m Breaststroke final today. It was Soni who clinched the gold medal with a WR of 2.20.22. Jones took the silver just under 2 seconds behind the US swimmer.
Libby Trickett (AUS) took to the blocks for the 100m Freestyle, after being thrown a lifeline following Jiaying Pang’s false start yesterday. She was determined to make her mark and got off to a good start. Pretty much the rest of the race saw her neck and neck with Britta Steffen (GER) but in the final stretch the German sneaked ahead to take gold. Trickett, wearing the Speedo LZR RACER picked up silver at and Natalie Coughlin bagged a bronze.
After today’s swimming an amazing 67 WRs have been broken by athletes wearing the Speedo LZR RACER. 19 out of a potential 21WRs at the games alone have been set by athletes wearing the fastest swimsuit in the world.
