Victoria (Canada), Aug 21: Americans Michael Phelps
and Brendan Hansen closed out the 2006 Pan Pacific swimming
championships with world record-setting victories here.
Hansen lowered his own 200m breaststroke world record for
the second time in 15 days, clocking a time of 2min 08.50sec,
almost a quarter-second better than the 2:08.74 he set at the
US championships on August 5.
"We make it look easy, but it`s really hard and a lot of
hard work went into that," he said of the five world records
the US men set in four days of competition.
"Right now we`ll just go back to the drawing board to see
how low we can make these records."
Hansen finished 2.37 seconds ahead of Olympic champion
and former world record-holder Kosuke Kitajima of Japan and
three seconds in front of teammate Scott Usher.
Meanwhile, Phelps set his second individual world record
of the meet with a signature storming finish to edge fellow
American Ryan Lochte in the men`s 200m individual medley.
"When we get in the water and race, it brings out the
best in both of us," Phelps said. "Ryan definitely helped me a
lot. Its more exciting when you go head to head like that. It
really gets the crowd up and that definitely had an impact."
Phelps`s time of 1:55.84 was one-tenth of a second better
than the world record he set three years ago. It came four
days after he opened the meet by lowering his own 200m
butterfly world mark.
The six-time olympic gold medallist also led off the US
world record-setting 4x100m free relay squad, and won gold in
the 400m medley and 4x200m free relay.
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