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Schipper, Lochte join gold rush

AFP, Rome
Australian Jessicah Schipper jumped on the world record bandwagon Thursday, winning the women's 200m butterfly world title in 2min 03.41sec.
"Crazy, even thinking about it now, two seconds off my personal best in two days - - it's crazy," said Schipper, who successfully defended the title she captured at the 2007 swimming World Championships in Melbourne.
Schipper broke the record of 2:04.14, set in the heats here on Wednesday by American Mary Descenza.
China's Olympic gold medallist Liu Zige was second in 2:03.90 and Hungary's Katinka Hosszu was third in 2:04.28.
Liu set the pace through the first 150m, but she couldn’t hold off Schipper on the final lap. Hosszu was sixth at the final turn but stormed home to snatch the bronze from Descenza, who was unable to match her performance of the previous morning.
Although Schipper went into last year's Beijing Olympics as the reigning world champion, she settled for bronze there behind Liu and compatriot Jiao Liuyang.
She was delighted to reverse the order in Rome.
"Finally," said Schipper. "I definitely didn't expect to go that fast and I didn't feel that fast."
Schipper added the gold to the 100m fly silver she earned on Monday, and said she was benefitting from her decision to switch from long-time coach Ken Wood and join up with Stephan Widmer.
" I'm a lot more confident in my swimming, a lot happier," said Schipper, who decided she
needed a change after an Olympics in which she earned bronze in both butterfly events.
Schipper is also swimming in an adidas Hydrofoil suit, one of the latest-generation high-tech suits that have the world record tally at these championships at29 and counting.
"It's hard to say," Schipper said when asked to analyze the avalanche of records. "It has been a very exciting meet. It’s very fast and we all knew it was going to be fast
"1 think that the world records, while they may have been helped with the suits, they still have a lot to do with the swimmer and the work they've putin."
Meanwhile, America's Ryan Lochte seized Michael Phelps's 200m medley world record at the swimming World Championships Thursday, his superstar teammate urging him on all the way.
Lochte lifted the title that Phelps had held since 2003 in a time of 1 min 54.1 Osec.
That broke the record of 1:54.23 set by Phelps in winning Olympic gold in Beijing last August and gave Lochte the title over Hungary's Laszlo Cseh (1:55.24) and fellow American Eric Shanteau (1:55.36).
After lowering the world record seven times since 2003, winning three world titles and two Olympic gold medals, Phelps opted out of the 200m medley this year to focus on freestyle and butterfly events.
While Lochte came up on the losing end often enough against his illustrious teammate, he would have preferred to take the battle to him again.
"It feels good to do that," he said of the world record. "But at the same time I wish he was doing it.
"I love a challenge. And I love racing against him, because he is one of the best swimmers ever. Anytime I can race against him, I would be more than happy to."