Tags: Olympic Event, Olympics.
The men’s 200 metre individual medley event at the 2008 Olympic Games took place on 11–13 August at the Beijing National Aquatics Center in Beijing China.U.S. swimmer Michael Phelps blasted a new world record to defend his title in the event and more importantly claim his sixth Olympic gold twelfth career and fourteenth overall medal. He established a sterling time of 1:54.23 to lower his prior standard from the Olympic trials by almost six-tenths of a second (0.60).