Michael Phelps To Beijing

by ESPN 1660 news services

Michael Phelps officially punched his ticket to Beijing Sunday night in incredible fashion, winning the 400-meter individual medley with a world-record time of 4 minutes, 5.25 seconds at the U.S. Olympic swimming trials.

It was the first of two world marks set Sunday. Katie Hoff is bound for Beijing too following her world-record time of 4 minutes, 31.12 seconds in the final of the women's 400-meter individual medley. In Phelps' race, Ryan Lochte finished in 4:06.08, with that also under the previous world mark. Phelps held the previous world record at 4:06.22, set at last year's world championships in Australia.

The 19-year-old Hoff and Elizabeth Beisel finished 1-2 in the women's 400- meter individual medley and are headed to Beijing. Four years ago, Hoff was the youngest member of the entire U.S. delegation at 15 years, 2 months, as she finished seventh in the 200-meter IM at the Athens Games.

Larsen Jensen won the final of the 400-meter freestyle in an American-record 3 minutes, 43.53 seconds and is headed to his second Summer Games. Jensen won the silver medal in the 1,500-meter freestyle in Athens. Peter Vanderkaay, gold medalist in the 800-meter freestyle at the 2004 Olympics, is also going to China as he finished second in Sunday's final.