Defending world champion Sally Pearson of Australia won the race in an Olympic record 12.23 seconds.
Phelps finished the 200-meter medley in 1:54.27, just off his Olympic record of 1:54.23 set in Beijing.
That gave the title to 5, 000m silver medallist Lee, 21, in a new Olympic record of 12 minutes 58.55 seconds.
By the end of the week, Fosbury had not only won the gold but also set a new Olympic record.
Mr. Schwazer won a gold medal at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, setting an Olympic record in the 50-kilometer race walk.
Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt silenced his doubters to retain his 100m title in a new Olympic record of 9.63 seconds.
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But if he'd hung back, would he have managed on an intensely hot and humid day to set a new Olympic record?
Schwazer broke the Olympic record in Beijing when he stormed to gold but will not travel to London to defend his title.
Phelps was nearly half a second under his world record pace through 100m, winning in an Olympic record of one minute 54.04 seconds.
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Phelps clocked 51.25 seconds, inside the Olympic record of 51.61 he posted in Thursday's semi-finals but well outside Crocker's 50.76 world mark set last month.
ATHENS, Greece -- American pole vaulter Timothy Mack pulled off a last-gasp clearance at an Olympic record height of 5.95 meters to take the title in Athens.
Bolt set a new Olympic record with his 9.63 seconds run on Sunday, just as he did when he claimed his first title four years ago in Beijing.
After taking silver at last year's World Championships behind New Zealand, Glover and Stanning won all three World Cup races this season and set an Olympic record in their heat.
Protecting a proud Olympic record the U.S. responded and finally drew level when Megan Rapinoe's corner squeezed between Canada goalkeeper Erin McLeod and the near post 10 minutes into the second half.
Wiggins streaked to victory in four minutes 16.304 seconds --more than a second slower than the Olympic record he set in qualifying on Friday but still 4.132 seconds quicker than his Australian opponent.
The time -- the second fastest in history -- was a new Olympic record and Bolt had achieved what only Carl Lewis had before: to have won gold medals twice in the event.
He set an Olympic record, which made it a lot easier for people to forget that his leap looked like something out of the Ministry of Silly Jumps, and now every high jumper does it.
And when Dutch coach Gerard Kemkers told him the news after he crossed the finish line in what would have been a new Olympic record time of 12:54.50, Kramer threw his sunglasses away in disgust.
Hackett, unbeaten in the event for seven years, led all the way to win gold in 14 minutes 43.40 seconds, breaking the Olympic record set by his fellow Australian Kieren Perkins at Barcelona in 1992.
It was against this background of tightly regimented Nazi showcasing that, on August 3, Owens started competing in Berlin's 100, 000-seater Olympic Stadium, winning his first gold medal in the 100 meters (equaling the Olympic record with his time of 10.3 seconds).
American Tyler Clary surged from third place to win the event in an Olympic-record time of 1:53.41.
The medal represents Sir Chris's fifth gold, matching rower Sir Steve Redgrave's British record of Olympic titles.
Elisabeth Willeboordse of the Netherlands denied Cuba's Driulis Gonzalez a record fifth Olympic medal by winning bronze.
Bolt won gold in the men's 100m and 200m at the Beijing Olympic Games in world record times and also triumphed in the 4x100 relay.
Jones, winner of a record five Olympic medals in Sydney three years ago, had started training with Francis after dropping her long-time coach Trevor Graham last month.
Bolt won gold in the men's 100m and 200m at the Beijing Olympic Games in world record times and also triumphed in the 4x100m relay with Jamaica.
As well as his 100m and 200m wins in Beijing, the 22-year-old Bolt led Jamaica's 4x100m sprint relay to Olympic victory in a record time of 37.10.
Bolt stunned the sporting world in August 2008 by winning the 100m and 200m Olympic golds in world record times in Beijing, and then repeated the feat at the 2009 World Championships in Berlin.
Holm is the only Swede to win the Olympic title with former world record holder Patrik Sjoberg finishing among the minor medals in three successive Games.
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