RIO DE JANEIRO – Texas rising junior Joseph Schooling led a loaded 100m butterfly field – including three-time defending Olympic champion Michael Phelps – and set an Olympic record on his way to gold Friday evening at the 2016 Olympic Games.
Schooling took the lead from the start and covered the opening 50 meters in 23.64 seconds with Russia's Aleksandr Sadovnikov his nearest competitor at 23.96. Schooling turned off the wall, blasted his trademark underwater kicks and continued to pace the eight-man final. The only man under 51 seconds in the final, Schooling touched in 50.