Chad Le Clos was on Wednesday dethroned by the fastest 200m butterfly swimmer of all time‚ a Hungarian teenager who scuppered Michael Phelps’s 10-year-old world record by nearly a full second.

Le Clos led for the first two laps‚ but when Kristof Milak powered past on the second half of the race‚ the South African had no answer...

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