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200-metre individual medley
Competitive swimming event / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The 200-metre individual medley is a race in competitive swimming in which swimmers compete in all 4 strokes (butterfly, backstroke, breaststroke, and freestyle) in one race, with each leg being 50 metres in length. The stroke order is different to the team variant of this race. Michael Phelps is famous for his four-peat at the Olympics, winning the event at each Olympic Games from 2004 to 2016, the only swimmer to have ever won four successive gold medals at the same event.[1]
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