Michael Phelps was out for animus adjoin Paul Biedermann. This time, though, American assistant Ryan Lochte exhausted the 14-time Olympic champion.
Lochte overtook Phelps on the final about-face of the 200-meter bathe on Tuesday to win one of the best awful accessible contest of the apple championships and admonish anybody that he's a blackmail to alter Phelps as the world's top swimmer.
Lochte affected in 1 minute, 44.44 seconds, with Phelps demography the argent in 1:44.79. Biedermann of Germany acclimatized for brownish in 1:44.88.
Park Tae-hwan of South Korea, who won the 400 chargeless on the aperture night of the eight-day accommodated on Sunday, was fourth.
Already energized by Lochte's win, the near capacity crowd at the Oriental Sports Center upped the noise when local favorite Zhao Jing of China won the next race, the women's 100 backstroke.
Lochte also beat Phelps in the 200 individual medley and 200 backstroke at last year's U.S. championships, then won six golds to Phelps' five at the Pan Pacific Championships in 2010 – prompting Phelps' coach Bob Bowman to acknowledge that Lochte was the best swimmer last year.
However, at the previous worlds in Rome two years ago, Biedermann handed Phelps a stinging defeat in this event, beating the American by more than a second and taking down Phelps' world record in the process.
Biedermann acknowledged after that race that his high-tech bodysuit was partly responsible for his win, and Bowman threatened to keep Phelps out of the water until the polyurethane suits were banned.
This is the first major international meet since the return to textile suits in January 2010, and Lochte's winning time was far off Biedermann's world record of 1:42.00.