Allison Schmitt earned her second medal of the 2012 Olympic Games in London on Sunday, claiming a silver after a riveting 400 freestyle duel with Camille Muffat of France.

The Canton High School graduate and former Club Wolverine age group swimmer battled Muffat virtually stroke-for-stroke the entire race at the Aquatics Centre in the Olympic Park.

Muffat touched in an Olympic-record time of 4 minutes, 1.45 seconds to win by a 0.32 seconds. Schmitt's time was an American record.

Schmitt swam the anchor leg of the U.S. 400 freestyle relay team, which won a bronze medal in an American-record time on Saturday.

The 22-year-old will also swim in the 200 freestyle preliminaries on Monday and will also be part of the United States' 800 freestyle relay.

Schmitt took a redshirt season away from the swim team at the University of Georgia to train with former Michigan swim coach Bob Bowman in Baltimore.

Her famous training partner, Michael Phelps, also picked up a silver medal on Sunday after France rallied to beat the Americans in the final of the 400 freestyle relay.

With Phelps looking much stronger than he did the night before, the Americans built a commanding lead over the first three legs and never really had to worry about the defending world champions from Australia.

When Ryan Lochte dove into the water on the anchor leg, he was a half-body length ahead of the field and looking to add another gold to his dominating victory Saturday in the 400 individual medley.

Not so fast.

Or, should we say, not fast enough.

Yannick Agnel sliced through the water and was right on Lochte's shoulder as they made the flip at the far end of the pool. With about 25 meters to go, they were stroke for stroke. But Lochte, who had already competed in 1,200 meters of racing over the first two days, simply didn't have enough left to hold off the towering, 20-year-old Frenchman, one of the sport's real rising stars.

"I gave everything in the last 50 until he cracked," Agnel said. "In the last 10 meters, I saw that he was really cracking."

Agnel touched in 3 minutes, 9.93 seconds, having gone exactly 1 second faster than Lochte over the last two laps. Lochte and the Americans dropped to silver in 3:10.38, while Australia — the favorite — didn't even get a medal. Russia took the bronze in 3:11.41, edging the team from Down Under by 0.22.

Phelps settled for his 17th career medal and completed his collection of Olympic colors, adding a silver to his 14 golds and two bronzes. He also moved a step closer to becoming the most decorated Olympian ever, just one away from tying the mark for most career medals held by Soviet gymnast Larisa Latynina, and has five events to go.

"At least I'm in a medal today," Phelps said ruefully, referring to a fourth-place finish in his first race of the London Games.

ROWING

Former Michigan rower Janine Hanson was part of the Canadian women's eight boat that won its heat on Sunday. The win put Canada directly into Thursday's final. The United States boat also won its heat to reach the final.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.