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Maarten van der Weijden of the Netherlands won the gold medal in the last event of Swimming: The Men’s 10km Swimming Marathon. He clocked 1:51:51.6 to beat David Davies of Britain (1:51:53.1) and Thomas Lurz of Germany (1:51:53.6).

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Larisa Ilchenko of Russia used 1 hour 59 minutes and 27.7 seconds to bag the Women’s 10km Marathon Swimming gold. Keri-Anne Payne and Cassandra Patten, both from Britain, took silver and brozne respectively.

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Jason Lezak, Brendan Hansen, Aaron Piersol and Michael Phelps of the United States defended their Men’s 4 x 100m Medley Relay title on the ninth day of the Beijing Olympics with a timing of 3:29:34. Australian team took silver with 3:30.04, the team from Japan had bronze with 3:31.18.

This win marks the eighth Beijing Olympic gold medal for Michael Phelps.

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Emily Seebohm, Leisel Jones, Jessicah Schipper and Lisbeth Trickett of Australia won the Women’s 4 x 100m Medley Relay, with 3:52.69, a new world record. Natalie Coughlin, Rebecca Soni, Christine Magnuson and Dara Torres of the United States finished second with 3:53.30. The Chinese team had third.

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Britta Steffen of Germany clocked 24.06 seconds, a new Olympic record, to bag the Women’s 50m Freestyle gold medal at the Beijing Olympics on 17th August 2008. Dara Torres of United States took silver, Cate Campbell of Australia had bronze.

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Cesar Cielo Filho of Brazil won the Men’s 50m Freestyle gold on the eighth day of the Beijing Olympics with a new Olympic record timing of 21.30 seconds. Amaury Leveaux and Alain Bernard, both from France, captured silver and bronze respectively.

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Rebecca Adlington of Great Britain (UK) finished with 8:14.10 to grab the Women’s 800m Freestyle final Olympic gold. Alessia Filippi of Italy took silver, Lotte Friis of Denmark was third.

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Kirsty Coventry of Zimbabwe clinched gold in Women’s 200m Backstroke with a world record-breaking of 2:05.24. Margaret Hoelzer of the United States came in second with Nakamura Reiko of Japan on a third.

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On the eighth day (16th August 2008) of the Beijing Olympics, Michael Phelps took gold in Men’s 100m Butterfly final in the Water Cube, clocking a 50.58 timing (a new Olympic record). Milorad Cavic of Serbia had silver and Andrew Lauterstein of Australia took bronze.

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Alain Bernard from France won the Men’s 100m Freestyle gold, beating world record holder, Australian Eamon Sullivan. ason Lezak of United States took bronze.

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