Olympics: Singapore's Schooling beats Phelps to 100m Butterfly gold (Sunday update)

Joseph Schooling sensationally upset Michael Phelps in the 100m butterfly on Friday to seize Singapore's first ever Olympic gold medal at the Rio Games. A day later, Phelps won his 23rd and last Olympic gold.

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Phelps signs off with 23rd gold medal

Rio de Janeiro, AFP –  Michael Phelps brought down the curtain on his glittering Olympic career when he helped the USA win 4x100m medley relay gold at the Rio Games on Saturday, taking his personal tally to 23.

Phelps swam the third leg, the butterfly, before Nathan Adrian brought it home as the United States won ahead of Britain and Australia.

There was major excitement earlier in the race as Ryan Murphy broke the 100m backstroke world record swimming the opening leg of the United States' 4x100m medley relay triumph.

The winning team was made up of Murphy, Cody Miller, Phelps and Adrian. They set an Olympic record of 3min 27.95.

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Olympics: Schooling stuns Phelps for Singapore's first Games gold

Rio de Janeiro, Aug 13, 2016, AFP – Joseph Schooling sensationally upset Michael Phelps in the 100m butterfly on Friday to seize Singapore's first ever Olympic gold medal at the Rio Games.

The 21-year-old Asian champion denied Phelps a fourth straight victory in the event, leading from start to finish to win in an Olympic record of 50.39sec.

Phelps, sixth at the turn, couldn't do enough coming home, but he had plenty of company on the second step of the podium as his longtime rival Laszlo Cseh of Hungary and South African Chad le Clos both matched his time of 51.14sec in an astonishing three-way tie for silver.

"It's wild," said Phelps. "Chad and I have had some races over the last four years and Laszlo and I – I can't even remember when I first raced him... so it's kind of special and a decent way to finish my last individual race."

Victory in Friday's fly would have given Phelps a 14th individual Olympic title, but Schooling was too strong. He punched the water and bellowed as Phelps swam over to congratulate him.

"He said 'good job, that was a great race'," Schooling said. "I told him to go four more years and he said 'No way.'

"Hopefully he changes his mind. That was fun. I like racing Michael."

Phelps, 31, insists he won't be back for a sixth Olympics. But after winning four golds so far in Rio – in the 4x100m free and 4x200m free relays, the 200m butterfly and the 200m individual medley – he'll have a shot at one more – it would be his 23rd – on Saturday in the 4x100m medley relay.

Schooling, meanwhile, was absorbing the enormity of his first.

"It hasn't really sunk in yet. I'm full of emotions now," he said. "I don't know what to believe, whether I actually did it or I'm still preparing my race."

Phelps may have been beaten, but the United States raked in plenty of gold on the penultimate night of action at the Olympic Aquatics Center.

Katie Ledecky obliterated the field and her own world record in winning the 800m freestyle in 8min 04.79sec.

The 19-year-old is the first Olympian since Debbie Meyer in 1968 to win the 200m, 400m and 800m free titles in one Games.

"The goal was 8:05 or better so I hit all my goals right on the nose this week," said Ledecky, who improved the previous record of 8:06.68 she set in January.

She finished almost half a length in front of her closest rivals, silver medallist Jazz Carlin of Britain (8:16.17) and bronze medallist Boglarka Kapas of Hungary (8:16.37).

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