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Phelps, Soni win titles at US nationals

WORLD and Olympic champion Michael Phelps won the 100-meter butterfly at the US national championships with the fastest time in the world this year.

Phelps led all the way and touched in 50.65 seconds last night, easily beating the previous quickest time of 51.70 set by Evgeny Korotyshkin of Russia. He won his 50th career national title, topping Tracy Caulkins' mark of 48.

World champion Rebecca Soni won the 100 breaststroke with the world's fastest time.

Soni was second at the turn, then poured it on down the stretch to win easily in 1 minute, 5.73 seconds.

She was 2.34 seconds ahead of second-place Ann Chandler, who touched in 1:08.07. Micah Lawrence was third.



 

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