Crocker's revenge as Phelps beaten by world record time
(China Daily)
Updated: 2005-08-01 05:32

"I don't want to be in a position where I'm disappointed with a race," he said. "I want to be happy with the way I'm swimming, but I'm not doing best times and thus I'm not happy."

By contrast, South African Roland Schoeman continued to display blistering form as he posted the second ever-fastest 50m freestyle time to capture that crown.

Schoeman, who had set two world records en route to the 50m butterfly title, won in 21.69 sec, second only to the world record of 21.69 of now-retired Russian great Alex Popov.

"I certainly didn't see myself coming in at 21.6," said Schoeman, who hadn't felt well during the semi-finals on Friday. "I think being sick takes off some of the pressure. You don't know what to expect, and that's exactly what it was. Last night I felt like I was dead."

Croatian Duje Draganja was second in 21.89 and Poland's Bartosz Kizierowski was third in 21.94.

Africa claimed another gold as Zimbabwe's Kirsty Coventry completed a backstroke double with her victory in the women's 200m.

Coventry, whose 200m back gold was one of a complete set of Olympic medals she won in Athens, clocked 2:08.52 to add the title to the 100m crown she captured on Tuesday.

Two international newcomers made their mark, American Kate Ziegler winning the 800m freestyle in which Olympic champion Ai Shibata was relegated to third and Australian Danni Miatke winning the 50m butterfly.

Ziegler, who had already won the 1,500m free title here, won in a personal best time of 8:25.31 with Canadian Brittany Reimer thrilling the home crowd with a second-place finish in 8:27.59.

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