Saturday 16 August 2008

Mellouli wins 1500m gold

Tunisia's Oussama Mellouli won the men's 1500 meters freestyle at the Beijing Games on Sunday to claim his country's first gold medal since the 1968 Mexico City Olympics.

Mellouli won the gold in 14 minutes, 40.84 seconds by a body length from Australia's Grant Hackett, who was bidding to become the first male swimmer to win the same individual event at three successive Olympics.

Hackett finished second in 14:41.53, more than seven seconds outside his world record and nearly three seconds outside the time he posted in Friday's heats.

Canada's Ryan Cochrane took the bronze medal in 14:42.69.

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