Mens Swimming 100m Butterfly Final London 2012 Olympics

Michael Phelps wins his last individual medal of his 18 gold medals in the 100m Butterfly at the London 2012 Olympic Games (3 August 2012). Phelps was followed by a joint silver place to both Chad le Clos (South Africa) and Evgeny Korotyshkin (Russian Subscribe to the Olympics here hit the bell Swimming has featured on the programme of all editions of the Games since 1896. The very first Olympic events were freestyle (crawl) or breaststroke. Backstroke was added in 1904. In the 1940s, breaststrokers discovered that they could go faster by bringing both arms forward over their heads. This practice was immediately forbidden in breaststroke, but gave birth to butterfly, whose first official appearance was at the 1956 Games in Melbourne. This style is now one of the four strokes used in competition. Women s swimming became Olympic in 1912 at the Stockholm Games. Since then, it has been part of every edition of the Games. Th