Franklin posts golden treble at swimming worlds
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Missy Franklin of USA bagged her third Barcelona gold and Chad le Clos claimed one more global title that had belonged to Michael Phelps on Day 4 of swimming at the FINA World Championships.
Franklin, golds in the 100m backstroke and 4x100m freestyle relay already in her possession, beat defending champion Federica Pellegrini of Italy in the 200m freestyle. She seized the lead from Olympic 400m freestyle champion Camille Muffat on the second length and won in 1:54.81, with Pellegrini charging through the field to claim silver in 1:55.14 and Muffat taking the bronze in 1:55.72.
"We're coming down the mountain now," Franklin said. "This is what we prepared for, this kind of event through eight days. I'm really, really happy with my swim there. You kind of use each swim to motivate you for the next swim."
Le Clos, who beat Phelps in the 200m butterfly at the 2012 London Olympics, inherited the great man's world crown in the same event, the American having won it at five of the last six World Championships before retiring after the London Games with a record 18 Olympic gold medals to his name. Le Clos swung past Pawel Korzeniowski on the last length to win in 1:54.32. Korzeniowski, who won the title when Phelps did not defend it in 2005, took the silver in 1:55.01 and China's Wu Peng the bronze (1:55.09) for his fourth World Championship medal in the event, following a silver and two bronzes.
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