Asia's greatest swimmer Kosuke Kitajima (centre) stole the spotlight from Michael Phelps on Thursday with an unprecedented double-double in the Olympics breaststroke.
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In the men's 200 breaststroke, Kitajima led all the way for his second gold of the Games.
Australia's Brenton Rickard, who was sluggish in the heats, came out strongly to stay with Kitajima in second for the entire race, touching for the silver medal and an Oceania Record in a time of 2:08.88.
The man who took bronze in the 100m Breaststroke on Monday, Hugues Duboscq of France, took bronze again finishing 0.06 seconds behind Rickard of 2:08.94
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