Olympic Sports: Phelps targets six golds

Michael Phelps will bid to repeat his feat of six Olympic gold medals when he takes part in the Fina swimming short course world championships. The 19-year-old American hopes to race in all sessions of the Indianapolis competition from 7 to 11 October.

He is due to swim the 200m freestyle, 200m butterfly, 4x200m relay plus the 100m, 200m and 400m indivdual medleys.

Fellow Athens gold winners Aaron Peirsol, Natalie Coughlin and Amanda Beard are also likely to compete.

The seventh Fina championships are being held in a 25-metre pool being constructed at Conseco Fieldhouse, home of the NBA's Indiana Pacers.

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Michael Phelps made a winning start to the World Short Course Swim Championships today but fellow American Kaitlin Sandeno stole the show with three titles.

Australian teenager Jade Edmistone, who set the world short course record of 29.90 last month, led the 50m breaststroke finalists in a time of 30.01. American Tara Kirk was second in 30.61.

"I wanted to go as fast as I could and get a good spot in the final," said Edmistone. "I didn't go to the Olympics so I have been training for this meet for six months."

Phelps, whose eight medals at the Athens Olympics included six golds, began his drive for five crowns with a painful 200m freestyle triumph while Sandeno won the 400m individual medley and 200m butterfly and anchored a US 4x200 free relay win.

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Results
Finals
Men
200m freestyle: 1. Michael Phelps (USA) 1 min, 43.59; 2. Richard Say (CAN) 1:44.39; 3. Ryan Lochte (USA) 1:44.97; 4. Yuri Prilukov (RUS) 1:45.40; 5. Kvetoslav Svoboda (CZE) 1:45.60; 6. Nicholas Sprenger (AUS) 1:46.33; 7. Stefan Herbst (GER) 1:46.66; 8. Rodrigo Castro (BRA) 1:46.72

4x100m freestyle relay: 1. United States (Brunelli, Walker, Dusing, Lezak) 3:09.96; 2. Brazil 3:12.73; 3. Canada 3:13.62; 4. Sweden 3:14.26; 5. Australia 3:15.24; 6. Russia 3:16.56; 7. China 3:19.15; 8. Spain 3:19.44

Women
200m butterfly: 1. Kaitlin Sandeno (USA) 2:06.95; 2. Mary Descenza (USA) 2:07.79; 3. Audrey Lacroix (CAN) 2:08.35; 4. Jessica Schipper (AUS) 2:08.50; 5. Felicity Galvez (AUS) 2:08.70; 6. Caterina Giacchetti (ITA) 2:09.20; 7. Yurie Yano (JPN) 2:13.47; 8. Li Jie (CHN) 2:14.46

400m individual medley: 1. Kaitlin Sandeno (USA) 4:30.12; 2. Katie Hoff (USA) 4:33.09; 3. Lara Carroll (AUS) 4:35.46; 4. Georgina Bardach (ARG) 4:36.54; 5. Elizabeth Warden (CAN) 4:40.37; 6. Carrie Bourgoyne (CAN) 4:41.69; 7. Zhang Tianyi (CHN) 4:43.23; 8. Kathyrn Meaklim (RSA) 4:47.85

4x200m freestyle relay: 1. United States (Vollmer, Komisarz, Benko, Sandeno) 7:47.72; 2. Australia 7:51.39; 3. Sweden 7:54.39; 4. China 8:00.45; 5. Canada 8:01.48; 6. Brazil 8:03.98; 7. New Zealand 8:08.25; 8. South Africa 8:13.71

Semi-finals
Men
100m backstroke (finalists): Thomas Rupprath (GER) 51.39; Aaron Peirsol (USA) 51.92; Matt Welsh (AUS) 52.00; Peter Marshall (USA) 52.24; Arkady Vyatchanin (RUS) 52.57; Stev Theloke (GER) 53.11; Aschwin Wildeboer (SPA) 53.41; Ryan Pini (PNG) 53.46

100m breaststroke (finalists): Brendan Hansen (USA) 58.46; Mihail Alexandrov (BUL) 59.57; Eduardo Fischer (BRA) 59.66; Vladislav Polyakov (KAZ) 59.71; Brenton Rickard (AUS) 59.81; Henrique Barbosa (BRA) 1:00.09; Mark Riley (AUS) 1:00.10; Aleksander Hetland (NOR) 1:00.34

100m butterfly (finalists): Ian Crocker (USA) 50.61; James Hickman (GBR) 51.69; Evgeny Korotyshkin (RUS) 51.72; Peter Mankoc (SLO) 52.18; Kaio Almeida (BRA) 52.18; Niokolay Skvortsov (RUS) 52.22; Ben Michaelson 52.28; Andrew Richards (AUS) 52.37

Women
50m breaststroke (finalists): Jade Edmistone (AUS) 30.01; Tara Kirk (USA) 30.61; Brooke Hanson (AUS) 30.67; Amanda Beard (USA) 31.33; Mirna Jukic (AUT) 31.55; Simone Weiler (GER) 31.55; Lisa Blackburn (CAN) 31.85; Luo Xuejuan (CHN) 31.86

100m backstroke (finalists): Haley Cope (USA) 59.81; Margaret Hoelzer (USA) 59.95; Sophie Eddington (AUS) 1:00.10; Erin Gammel (CAN) 1:00.13; Tayliah Zimmer (AUS) 1:00.24; Zhan Shu (CHN) 1:00.32; Elizabeth Coster (NZL) 1:00.46; Gao Chang (CHN) 1:00.79

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