Australia's Ian Thorpe competes in the 200m freestyle final at the Olympic Aquatic Center in Athens on Monday.

Thorpe took the gold medal in one minute 44.71 seconds. Pieter van den Hoogenband of the Netherlands took silver, while American teenager Michael Phelps collected the bronze.

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