Most number of times an Olympic gold has been defended – 3
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Today, Phelps won the 200 meter individual medley with a time of 1:55.78 minutes. Still in the pool after touching the wall and checking his time, he called the drone camera to himself like after his 200 meter butterfly win and showed the number ‘four’ by holding up four fingers. He could have been referring to his current Rio medal tally, or the world record he had broken again.
His fourth gold at this year’s Olympics means that Phelps now has four gold medals from four Olympic Games in the men’s 200 IM. He won gold in Athens (2004), Beijing (2008), London (2012), and now in Rio.
Phelps is the only sportsperson to have defended a gold medal in the same category three times, i.e. through the course of four Olympic games.
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