Phelps won historic 8th Gold out of 8 in 2008 Beijing Olympics

Swimming legend American Michael Phelps created history as he won record 8th Gold medal in the Men's 4 x 100m Medley Relay final on Sunday, 17th August, 2008 at the National Aquatics Center in a record time of 3:29.34, breaking the world record by 1.34 seconds.

This is the all time record in Olympic History to win 8 Gold medals in a single Olympic games. The previous record was set 36 years ago by Mark Spitz in the 1972 Munich Olympics.



Michael Phelps with US team mates Aaron Peirsol, Brendan Hansen and Jason Lezak lead the race from start to finish as they are defending Olympic champions and world record holder in Men's 4 x 100m Medley Relay.

Peirsol gave US team a great start with a 53.16sec split. Team mate Hansen increased the lead on the world record split taking it 0.39 seconds under at the race's halfway mark. Brenton Rickard swam his breaststroke leg in 58.56 and the Phelps finished the final leg ahead of Australian team.

The Australian team of Hayden Stoeckel, Andrew Lauterstein, Rickard and Sullivan finished 0.70 seconds behind the US to win silver in an Oceania record 3:30.04, also under the old world record.

Japan's team of Miyashita Junichi, Kitajima Kosuke, Fujii Takuro and Sato Hisayoshi took bronze in an Asian record 3:31.18. Russia finished fourth in a European record 3:31.92.