Michael Phelps equalled Mark Spitz's record haul of seven golds with victory over Milorad Cavic in the 100m butterfly.
Phelps trailed the Serbian swimmer for the whole race but somehow managed to touch just 0.01 secs in front to draw level with Spitz's record, set in Munich in 1972.
The American set a new Olympic record in the process, touching in 50.58secs with Australia's Andrew Lauterstein finishing third and world-record holder Ian Crocker in fourth.
Zimbabwe's Kirsty Coventry finally claimed gold at the Games, winning the 200m backstroke in a world record time of 2:05.24.
Coventry's win was her first gold of the games after three second-placed finishes earlier in the swimming programme.
Great Britain's Rebecca Adlington destroyed the rest of the field in the 800m freestyle to claim her second gold of the Games, breaking one of swimming's most illustrious world records in the process.
Adlington's time of 8:14.10 was 2.12s under Janet Evans' 19-year-old world record as she added gold in the 800m to the one she won in the 400m freestyle earlier in the week.
The 19-year-old was six seconds clear of the rest of the field as Italy's Alessia Filippi took silver and Lotte Friis of Denmark the bronze.
Brazilian Cesar Filho Cielo claimed his second medal of the Games with victory in the 50m freestyle in a new Olympic record time to add to the bronze he claimed in the 100m.
Cielo touched in 21.30, 0.15 ahead of second placed Amaury Leveaux of France while his compatriot and the gold medal winner in the 100m, Alain Bernard, took bronze.
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