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More records fall as Phelps collects 19th gold

RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) Michael Phelps picked up his 19th gold medal on a second night of world records in the Olympic pool, with Katie Ledecky cruising to women's 400 metres freestyle victory and Britain's Adam Peaty running away with the men's 100 breaststroke. men's team, with Phelps swimming second, took the 4x100 freestyle relay.

Phelps, the most decorated Olympian of all time, now has 19 golds, two silvers and two bronzes. For his relay team mates Caeleb Dressel and Ryan Held, it was their first Olympic medal.

London Olympics 100 freestyle champion Nathan Adrian swam the final leg for the Americans, touching first ahead of France and Australia.

"On the block I thought my heart was going to explode, I was so hyped, so excited," said Phelps, competing in his fifth Olympics. swimming sensation, Van Cleef & Arpels bracelet fake shaved 1.91 seconds off her own world record on the way to the 400m gold, the first stage of a rare treble she hopes to complete along with the 200m and 800m.

"It's pure happiness," the 19 year old told reporters.

"I wanted the first 200 to hurt as little as possible and I really felt like I could build into it and really explode that last 50," she Van Cleef & Arpels Alhambra Necklace copy added after leading the race from start to finish.

"WHERE IS EVERYBODY?"

Britain's Peaty set his second Van Cleef & Arpels necklace fake world record in consecutive days, and seemed surprised by the margin of his victory 1.56 seconds over defending champion Cameron van der Burgh of South Africa.

"I touched the wall and looked around and thought 'where is everybody?' Peaty told reporters.

The last British man to win an Olympic swimming gold was Adrian Moorhouse in the same event in 1988, six years before Peaty was born. On a big night for the British team, Jazz Carlin won a silver medal behind Ledecky.

In the butterfly, Sjostrom became the first Swedish woman to win an Olympic gold medal, with Canada's 16 year old Penny Oleksiak taking silver. American Dana Vollmer, the 2012 champion, clinched bronze.

"The feeling is totally crazy. I didn't realise it was a world record," Sjostrom said.

"I knew I was the big favourite. I was under pressure, so I tried to focus on no disasters. Before the start I said to myself: 'It's just a pool. It's nothing. I know what to do.'"

In a reminder of the doping controversies that dogged the build up to the Olympics, there were loud boos for Russian breaststroker Yulia Efimova and the men's relay team.

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