Schooling wins first gold for Singapore, edges Phelps
Joseph Schooling won the men's 100 meters butterfly final on Friday to secure Singapore's first Olympic gold medal and deny Michael Phelps a 23rd in the last individual race of the American's extraordinary career.
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Phelps, the defending champion and world record holder who is heading into retirement -- again -- after Rio, finished second in a three-way dead heat with two of his greatest rivals -- South Africa's Chad Le Clos and Hungary's Laszlo Cseh.
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Astonishingly, all three touched out in 51.14 seconds, behind Schooling's Olympic record 50.39.
Phelps, who now has 27 medals, had been hoping to win the event for the fourth successive Games.
