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D'Arcy pips Phelps in his pet event

 

D'Arcy, racing in his first competitive meet after a lengthy layoff due to illness and injury, chased down Phelps in the final 25m to clock one minute and 55.39 seconds, winning by just one hundredth of a second in the Santa Clara International Grand Prix on Sunday.

The 23-year-old Queenslander becomes only the second man in nine years to beat the American great in his pet event, after China's Wu Peng ended a streak of 60 consecutive wins by beating him twice earlier this year.

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