Men’s 50m Freestyle
Caleb Dressel (United States) swum the fastest heat ahead of Florent Manadou (France). Kristian Gkolomeev (Greece), Bruno Fratus (Brazil) and Vladyslav Bukhov (Ukraine) also won their heats. In the first semi-final, it was Manadou ahead of Fratus and Thom De Boer (Netherlands). In the second semi, it was Dressel who took out a big lead on the entry and won ahead of Gkolomeev and Ben Proud (Great Britain). Dressel as always got a great start and managed to hold on to take the gold. He could not get to the world record but beat Manadou and Fratus in an Olympic record.
🥇Caleb Dressel 🇺🇸
🥈Florent Manadou 🇫🇷
🥉Bruno Fratus 🇧🇷
Men’s 100m Freestyle
Thomas Ceccon (Italy) was the fastest in the heats swimming 47.71 and beating Caleb Dressel (United States). Kyle Chalmers (Australia), Kliment Kolesnikov (Russia) and Jacob Whittle (Great Britain) all won their heat to make the semis. In the first heat, it was Caleb Dressel who led Alessandro Miressi (Italy). Dressel took the win ahead of Miressi with Hwang Sun-woo (South Korea) third. In heat two, it was Kolesnikov who went out fastest and managed to hold on impressively, barely missing an Olympic record beating Chalmers and Nandor Nemeth (Hungary). Ceccon, after his fastest time in the heat, missed out on the final. In the final, leader at halfway was Dressel following a magnificent start ahead of Kolesnikov and Chalmers. Dressel just about managed to hold on, setting an Olympic record and beating Chalmers by just 0.06 seconds.
🥇Caleb Dressel 🇺🇸
🥈Kyle Chalmers 🇦🇺
🥉Kliment Kolesnikov 🇷🇺
Men’s 200m Freestyle
In a relatively open event, the fastest heat was swum by Hwang Sun-woo (South Korea) who set a national record with Fernando Scheffer (Brazil) the second quickest. Katsuhiro Matsumoto (Japan) and Elijah Winnington (Australia) both went out in the heats. In the first semi, it was Scheffer who led at halfway. Almost four finished in a line with Martin Malyutin (Russia) winning ahead of David Popovici (Romania). Three others finished within 0.39. The second semi saw Kieran Smith (United States) lead at halfway. Going on to win the semi, with the fastest time in the competition was Duncan Scott (Great Britain) ahead of Smith. It was five from the second semi who went through meaning Thomas Neil (Australia) missed out. At halfway it was Hwang Sun-woo who led ahead of Scheffer and Thomas Dean (Great Britain). With 50m remaining Sun-woo seemed to have an insurmountable lead but the red hats of Britain started to chase him down and it all came down to the touch where Dean held on ahead of Scott with a better final touch to win by 0.04 seconds.
🥇Tom Dean 🇬🇧
🥈Duncan Scott 🇬🇧
🥉Fernando Scheffer 🇧🇷
Men’s 400m Freestyle
Quite an open event, the two favourites were the Australians. Elijah Winnington (Australia) won his heat ahead of Jack McLoughlin (Australia) but three men went faster in the prior heat. Henning Muhlleitner (Germany) led Felix Aubock (Austria) and Gabriele Detti (Italy) home. Winnington led the field out at 50m holding on to the lead through 150m before compatriot McLoughlin took over ahead of Ahmed Hafnaoui (Tunisia). Winnington went backwards as the fast finishers began to come forward. McLoughlin struggled on the final 50m and it was Hafnaoui, at only 18, who would take gold. Muhlleitner, Aubock and Detti never got into the race.
🥇Ahmed Hafnaoui 🇹🇳
🥈Jack McLoughlin 🇦🇺
🥉Kieran Smith 🇺🇸
Men’s 800m Freestyle
Mykhailo Romanchuk (Ukraine) set an Olympic record in the heats ahead of Florian Wellbrock (Germany). The other semi was swum at a measured pace with Felix Aubock (Austria) beating Guilherme Costa (Brazil). A quarter of the way through in the final, Gregorio Paltrinieri (Italy) had opened up a good lead, perhaps going off too fast. At the halfway stage the lead had slightly reduced to 1.42 seconds with six swimmers pretty much in a line. With the 200m to go mark, it had been reduced to 0.45 ahead of Romanchuk and Wellbrock. He was still hanging on when the bell went for 100m to go but Wellbrock turned in the lead for the final 50m. Romanchuk came back fast though and even faster was Robert Finke (United States) who pinched it on the line of Paltrinieri with less than 0.5 separating the first three.
🥇Robert Finke 🇺🇸
🥈Gregorio Paltrinieri 🇮🇹
🥉Mykhailo Romanchuk 🇺🇦
Men’s 1500m Freestyle
Mykhailo Romanchuk (Ukraine) was the fastest in the qualifiers beating Robert Finke (United States) and Gregorio Paltrinieri (Italy). Florian Wellbrock (Germany) and Felix Aubock (Austria) took the other two heats. As with the 800m, Paltrinieri took on the early pace in the final although Wellbrock passed him at the 300m mark. At the 800m mark the German still led ahead of Romanchuk, Finke and Paltrinieri who were within a second of each other. With 250m to go, Paltrinieri was starting to fall away, but the other three were within 0.5 of each other. As the bell rang it was still Wellbrock ahead of Romanchuk and Finke. Wellbrock opened a gap of 0.72 at the turn but it was Finke who once against kept his swimming until the final 50m where he made it past the German.
🥇Robert Finke 🇺🇸
🥈Mykhailo Romanchuk 🇺🇦
🥉Florian Wellbrock 🇩🇪
Men’s 100m Backstroke
Kliment Kolesnikov (Russia) swam the fastest heat by over 0.3 seconds. Xu Jiayu (China) and Yohann Ndoye Brouard (France) took wins in the other main heats. In the first semi, it was Apostolos Christou (Greece) who went out hard and led at halfway. Ryan Murphy (United States) took over impressively winning after a poor start ahead of Mitch Larkin (Australia) and Thomas Ceccon (Italy). The second semi was led by Kolesnikov and he powered home, swimming a slightly slower time than Murphy. Evgeny Rylov (Russia) was second ahead of Xu Jiayu (China). In the final, it was the Russian pair who took the lead at halfway ahead of Murphy. Rylov managed to keep that pace up and take the victory ahead of Kolesnikov, dipping under 52 seconds. He beat Kolesnikov by 0.02 with Murphy finishing awkwardly a further 0.19 back.
🥇Evgeny Rylov 🇷🇺
🥈Kliment Kolesnikov 🇷🇺
🥉Ryan Murphy 🇺🇸
Men’s 200m Backstroke
Luke Greenbank (Great Britain) was the fastest in the heats. Evgeny Rylov (Russia) was over a second behind after winning heat four. Grigory Tarasevich (Russia) won the opening heat and Ryan Murphy (United States) took the third. At halfway it was Rylov ahead of Yohann Ndoye Brouard (France). Rylov would go on to take the win by a large margin ahead of Adam Telegdy (Hungary) and Radoslaw Kawecki (Poland). In the second semi-final, Greenbank led at halfway ahead of Murphy. Those two fought all the way to the line with Greenbank winning ahead of Murphy and Nicolas Garcia (Spain) in third. Tarasevich was eliminated in the semi-final. After 50m Rylov led Greenbank and at halfway the Russian had a larger gap of 0.45 ahead of Murphy. The gap had extended to 0.72 heading into the final leg with Greenbank third. An Olympic record from Rylov saw those three finish in that order.
🥇Evgeny Rylov 🇷🇺
🥈Ryan Murphy 🇺🇸
🥉Luke Greenbank 🇬🇧
Men’s 100m Breaststroke
The heats went as expected with the three fastest times coming from the three fastest men this year. Adam Peaty (Great Britain) swum the fastest time whilst Arno Kamminga (Netherlands) and Michael Andrew (United States) won their heats. 2016 200m gold medalist Dmitriy Balandin (Kazakhstan) missed making the semis. Kamminga took the first semi but was slower than his heat time. He edged Nicolo Martinenghi (Italy) and James Wilby (Great Britain). Quicker in the other semi was Peaty, ahead of Yibei Zan (China) and Andrew. Peaty got a decent start in the final and led at halfway ahead of Kamminga. As has become a usual sight, Peaty pulled away on the way back. He beat Kamminga into second ahead of Martinenghi.
🥇Adam Peaty 🇬🇧
🥈Arno Kamminga 🇳🇱
🥉Nicolo Martinenghi 🇮🇹
Men’s 200m Breaststroke
The fastest heats came from the fourth as Arno Kamminga (Netherlands) and Zac Stubblety-Cook (Australia) tied for the fastest time. Matti Mattsson (Finland) and Nic Fink (United States) both won heats whilst Andrew Wilson (United States) did not make the semi-finals. In the semi, Kamminga went out 0.82 ahead of world record pace at halfway. The swimmers around him begin to close and Kamminga just about edged Fink. Halfway through the second heat, it was James Wilby leading at halfway (Great Britain) who was even further ahead of world record pace. As per the first semi-final, everyone came back to him on the final 50m and it was Stubblety-Cook who took the win. Wilby held on for second whilst Mattsson came third. Reigning Olympic champion Dmitriy Balandin (Kazakhstan) missed out on the final. In the final, it was Kamminga who led at 50m and had an ever bigger gap at 100m, two seconds under world record pace. It looked too fast as he began to come back in the field but still led at that world record pace at 150m. Stubblety-Cook came through to take the win in an Olympic record.
🥇Zac Stubblety-Cook 🇦🇺
🥈Arno Kamminga 🇳🇱
🥉Matti Mattsson 🇫🇮
Men’s 100m Butterfly
Caleb Dressel (United States) set a marker by matching the Olympic record in his heat. Kristof Milak (Hungary), Josif Miladinov (Bulgaria) and Nyls Korstanje (Netherlands) all won their heats to qualify. At halfway in the first heat Andrey Minakov (Russia), Mehdy Matella (France) and Milak were separated by 0.01. Milak came back impressively to set an Olympic record to defeat Miladinov and Minakov. Dressel led his heat comfortably at halfway and came back with an Olympic record, 0.6 faster than Milak went. In the final, as he often does, Dressel took a massive edge at the start of the race. Leading by over a half a second at halfway, he tied up over the final 50m, with Milik catching him eventually finishing 0.2 behind him. Dressel set a new world record of 49.45
🥇Caleb Dressel 🇺🇸
🥈Kristof Milak 🇭🇺
🥉Noe Ponti🇨🇭
Men’s 200m Butterfly
Kristof Milak (Hungary) was the quickest in the heats by almost a second. Wang Kuan-hung (Taiwan) and Noe Ponti (Switzerland) won the other heats. Chad Le Clos (South Africa) took the first semi out incredibly hard, 0.20 seconds ahead of world record pace at halfway. He struggled down the final 50m but somehow managed to hang on. Behind him were Tamas Kenderesi (Hungary) and Tomoru Honda (Japan). Milak led the second semi-final at halfway, this time slightly outside world record pace. Unlike Le Clos, he did not slow to the same extent, taking the win comfortably. Leonardo De Deus (Brazil) was the second fastest, dipping under 1.55. Milak went out hard, dragging Le Clos with him. Le Clos led at halfway, 0.10 ahead of Federico Burdisso (Italy) and Milak right there. Milak kept going, swimming the second fastest time of all time and setting an Olympic record.
🥇Kristof Milak 🇭🇺
🥈Tomoru Honda 🇯🇵
🥉Federico Burdisso 🇮🇹
Men’s 200m Individual Medley
Michael Andrew (United States) was the fastest qualifier in a fast heat which saw five of the six fastest times. Chase Kalisz (United States), Mitch Larkin (Australia) and Tomoe Zenimoto Hvas (Norway) also won their heats. In the first semi, Laszlo Cseh (Hungary) led the fly leg and was still in the first at halfway ahead of Jeremy Desplanches (Switzerland). After the breaststroke, it was Daiya Seto (Japan) who led only for Duncan Scott (Great Britain) to beat him on the touch. Kalisz only finished sixth meaning he wouldn’t make the final. In the second semi, Andrew led the butterfly and although the pace slowed, was still ahead at halfway from Wang Shun (China). He re-extended the lead on the third leg but could not hold on as Shun beat him with Kosuke Hagino (Japan) in third and Larkin missing out on the final. After the butterfly leg, it was Andrew in the lead ahead of Cseh. The backstroke leg saw Shun lead Cseh. With 50m to go, Andrew led by 1.01 to Shun and Seto. Shun came back down with a fast 50m and although Scott was rapidly closing he could not get there for the line.
🥇Wang Shun 🇨🇳
🥈Duncan Scott 🇬🇧
🥉Jeremy Desplanches 🇨🇭
Men’s 400m Individual Medley
The heats brought around some surprises. Lewis Clareburt (New Zealand) beat Chase Kalisz (United States). The bigger surprise came in the final heat as Brendon Smith (Australia) won the heat, but Daiya Seto (Japan) could only finish fifth missing out on the final at his home Olympics. At the end of the butterfly leg in the final, it was Leon Marchand (France) before going backwards in the backstroke leg as Clareburt took over. The lead would change again through the breaststroke as Kalisz took a big lead of 2.47 seconds. Kalisz would take the field home and take a big win. The battle came behind him though with Jay Litherland (United States) taking silver ahead of Smith. Max Litchfield (Great Britain) and David Verraszto (Hungary) were tied in fourth with second to fifth separated by just 0.31 seconds.
🥇Chase Kalisz 🇺🇸
🥈Jay Litherland 🇺🇸
🥉Brendon Smith 🇦🇺
Men’s 4x100m Freestyle Relay
Italy swam the fastest heat with a national record ahead of the United States and Australia. Great Britain missed out on the final. Caleb Dressel opened with a fantastic first 50m but tightened up, only leading France by 0.26. At halfway they led by 0.30 to France with Italy a further 0.03 behind. Entering the final leg United States led Italy by 0.20 with Canada improving to third. They pulled away in the final leg with a 3.08.97 ahead of Italy and the fastest finishers Australia.
🥇United States 🇺🇸
🥈Italy 🇮🇹
🥉Australia 🇦🇺
Men’s 4x200m Freestyle Relay
Despite a poor swim from Tom Dean, fresh off becoming Olympic champion, Great Britain swam the quickest time in the heats. They led home Australia whilst Italy beat Russia in the other heat. In the final, Tom Dean led off for Britain and at halfway, was second behind the United States and Brazil. At the end of the first leg, it was still the United States over Russia with Great Britain in third. It was James Guy on the second leg for Britain and by halfway in the relay he was leading for Britain ahead of the United States and Russia. Heading into the final leg, Matt Richards had opened up the advantage for Great Britain, leading by 1.45 ahead of Russia, with Italy in third. Duncan Scott led Britain home, only 0.03 outside of the world record. Behind them was Russia who finished ahead of the Australian team. The United States could only finish fourth whilst Italy faded into fifth. The last leg from Duncan Scott was 1.43.45.
🥇Great Britain 🇬🇧
🥈Russia 🇷🇺
🥉Australia 🇦🇺
Men’s 4x100m Medley Relay
Italy were the fastest qualifiers thanks to a great breaststroke leg by Nicolo Martinenghi. Almost a second behind them, winning the other heat were Great Britain. Behind them were Russia and China, as the United States only qualified seventh, with Australia sixth. In the opening leg, the United States took a big lead ahead of Italy and China. On the breaststroke leg, Peaty swam through to the lead an edge of 0.47 ahead of Italy and 0.67 to the United States. At the end of the third leg, Dressel had got the United States back in the lead. Apple went out hard for the United States and Duncan Scott slowly caught up but it was not enough, with the United States setting a new world record.
🥇United States 🇺🇸
🥈Great Britain 🇬🇧
🥉Italy 🇮🇹
Men’s 10km Open Water
As opposed to the women’s event where they seem satisfied working in a pack, Florian Wellbrock (Germany) worked hard to establish a breakaway. By the end of the first lap, his gap was 6.4 seconds over Marc Antoine Olivier (France) who skipped the feed station to try and keep pace. They were soon joined by Kristof Rasovszky (Hungary) whilst Gregorio Paltrinieri (Italy) led the chase group. By the end of lap five, the aforementioned trio had been chased down by Paltrinieri, Matan Roditi (Israel) and Athanasios Kynigakis (Greece). Wellbrock put in another attack though and by the end of lap six had 4.6 seconds on Rasovszky and a further 9.1 on Paltrinieri. He continued to pull away from those two to take the elusive gold.
🥇Florian Wellbrock 🇩🇪
🥈Kristof Rasovszky 🇭🇺
🥉Gregorio Paltrinieri 🇮🇹
Women’s 50m Freestyle
Emma McKeon (Australia) set another Olympic record in the heats beating Simone Manuel (United States). Pernille Blume (Denmark) beat Cate Campbell (Australia) in heat nine with Sarah Sjoestrom (Sweden) taking the other heat. In the semi-final one, it was Blume ahead of Sjoestrom and the fast-starting Ranomi Kromowidjojo (Netherlands). McKeon was the fastest, setting another Olympic record of 24.00 ahead of Abbey Weitzel (United States) and Katarzyna Wasick (Poland). It was another Olympic record in the final as McKeon swam 23.81, beating Sjoestrom and Blume.
🥇Emma McKeon 🇦🇺
🥈Sarah Sjoestrom 🇸🇪
🥉Pernille Blume 🇩🇰
Women’s 100m Freestyle
Emma McKeon (Australia) swam the fastest heat with an Olympic record. She dragged Siobhan Haughey (Hong Kong) to an Asian record and Anna Hopkin (Great Britain) to a British record. Cate Campbell (Australia) and Sarah Sjoestrom (Sweden) also won their heats. In the opening semi, Haughey led Campbell at halfway which would hold at the finish line, with another Asian record falling. Penny Oleksiak (Canada) fought back into third. In the second semi, it was McKeon leading and going on to win. Behind her were Sjoestrom and Abbey Weitzeil (United States). At 50m it was McKeon, with an edge of 0.02 ahead of Haughey. McKeon swam another Olympic record, finishing with Haughey in second and Campbell in third just 0.07 ahead of Oleksiak.
🥇Emma McKeon 🇦🇺
🥈Siobhan Haughey 🇭🇰
🥉Cate Campbell 🇦🇺
Women’s 200m Freestyle
Katie Ledecky (United States) was the fastest in the heats ahead of Penny Oleksiak (Canada). The other two heats were won by Ariarne Titmus (Australia) and Barbora Seemanova (Czech Republic). Siobhan Haughey (Hong Kong) led the opening semi at halfway behind a first pace but could not hold on as Titmus came through on the final 50m. In the second semi, Ledecky took control from earlier, being in the lead at halfway and winning the second semi. In the final, Haughey took the lead at halfway, 0.5 seconds ahead of world record pace with both Ledecky and Titmus looking to leave it late. She remained 0.2 ahead of world record pace with 50m to go as it became clear that Ledecky was not gonna compete with her. Titmus began to reel in Haughey over the last 50m and set an Olympic record to take gold ahead of Haughey. Back in third was Oleksiak with Ledecky only in fifth.
🥇Ariarne Titmus 🇦🇺
🥈Siobhan Haughey 🇭🇰
🥉Penny Oleksiak 🇨🇦
Women’s 400m Freestyle
Katie Ledecky (United States) qualified with the fastest time with Ariarne Titmus (Australia) winning the other heat. As expected those two took a lead in the final, with Ledecky leading 100m in, Titmus behind with a gap already opening to 14-year-old Summer McIntosh (Canada). At halfway that order remained and it remained the same at 300m although Titmus had closed the gap. With 50m remaining, Titmus led by 0.22. The two came together stroke by stroke but Titmus pulled away, barely missing the world record and beating Ledecky by 0.67. Back in third Li Bingjie (China) also came from behind to beat McIntosh.
🥇Ariarne Titmus 🇦🇺
🥈Katie Ledecky 🇺🇸
🥉Li Bingjie 🇨🇳
Women’s 800m Freestyle
Katie Ledecky (United States) won the first, faster semi-final ahead of Katie Grimes (United States). In the second semi-final, it was Anastasiya Kirpichnikova (Russia) ahead of Ariarne Titmus (Australia). Ledecky opened up a lead on the first 100m with Titmus separating her and Grimes. Ledecky had lengthened the lead at halfway, leading by 1.22, with Grimes struggling back to over three seconds behind. By 500m, Grimes had fallen away leaving Simona Quadarella in the bronze medalist position. With 100m to go, Ledecky had the edge by 2.43 seconds. Ledecky was comfortable, winning by a large margin despite it slightly closing.
🥇Katie Ledecky 🇺🇸
🥈Ariarne Titmus 🇦🇺
🥉Simona Quadarella 🇮🇹
Women’s 1500m Freestyle
Katie Ledecky (United States) set an Olympic record in the heats improving on the record set in the previous heat by Erica Sullivan (United States). Their task was made easier by the fact it was the inaugural running of the event. It did not take long for Ledecky to especially dominance here, leading by 2.06 seconds at 400m ahead of Wang Jianjiahe (China) and Simona Quadarella (Italy). By 600m it was 2.30 seconds and the medal positions had switched rounds. At 1000m the gap had increased to 3.83 with Sarah Kohler (Germany) second ahead of Quadarella. By 200m to go, Quadarella had dropped out of the medal picture. Instead, Sullivan had closed up on Kohler. With 150m to go, she had gone past and actually begun closing on Ledecky. Ledecky came home comfortably with a few seconds' edge.
🥇Katie Ledecky 🇺🇸
🥈Erica Sullivan 🇺🇸
🥉Sarah Kohler 🇩🇪
Women’s 100m Backstroke
Kylie Masse (Canada) broke the Olympic record in the fourth heat of the day. In the following heat, Regan Smith (United States) went even faster. In the final heat of the day, it was Kaylee McKeown (Australia) who set another Olympic record. In the opening semi Kathleen Dawson (Great Britain) edged the halfway lead but a poor turn cost her the lead, instead finishing third. For the fourth time in the Olympics, another Olympic record was set, this time by Smith. Masse led the second semi at halfway and got home, just edging McKeown into second with Emily Seebholm (Australia) finishing third. Kylie Masse led at halfway but McKeown slowly began to catch up and in another final that came down to the touch, McKeown nicked it, finishing just 0.02 behind the world record but setting a fifth Olympic record in this event at these Olympics.
🥇Kaylee McKeown 🇦🇺
🥈Kylie Masse 🇨🇦
🥉Regan Smith 🇺🇸
Women’s 200m Backstroke
The top five in the heats were separated by 0.18 seconds. Kaylee McKeown (Australia) went fastest, beating Kylie Massie (Canada). The third quickest was Rhyan White (United States) beating Phoebe Bacon (United States) and Liu Yaxin (China). The other heat saw Peng Xuwei (China) defeat Emily Seebohm (Australia). In the first semi, it was the middle lanes who led at halfway with Bacon leading White and Seebohm. Seebohm managed to come through and take the victory ahead of Bacon with White in third. Katalin Burian (Hungary) led at halfway ahead of McKeown. Masse took the win ahead of McKeown. At the halfway stage in the final, the leader was Kylie Masse, 0.80 ahead of McKeown who had Bacon just behind. McKeown would close down Masse over the final 50m. In third Seebohm came through late to win bronze.
🥇Kaylee McKeown 🇦🇺
🥈Kylie Masse 🇨🇦
🥉Emily Seebohm 🇦🇺
Women’s 100m Breaststroke
Tatjana Schoenmaker (South Africa) set an Olympic record in the heats ahead of Lydia Jacoby (United States). Lilly King (United States) and Yuliya Efimova (Russia) both won their heats. Tang Qianting (China) led the first semi at halfway but Jacoby came through with a good second 50m to win the semi ahead of Sophie Hansson (Sweden) and Efimova. Schoenmaker was edging King at 50m of the second semi and held that throughout the race. In the final, it was Schoenmaker who led ahead of King and Jacoby at 50m. The Americans begin to come back at Schoenmaker but it was actually the 17-year-old Jacoby who set a personal best to take the gold medal.
🥇Lydia Jacoby 🇺🇸
🥈Tatjana Schoenmaker 🇿🇦
🥉Lilly King 🇺🇸
Women’s 200m Breaststroke
Tatjana Schoenmaker (South Africa) set the fastest time in the heats with an Olympic record, three seconds quicker than Lilly King (United States). Kaylene Corbett (South Africa) won the other heat. In the first semi Molly Renshaw (Great Britain) led them out at 100m but could only finish third, with Corbett swimming a brilliant second 100m to beat King. Schoenmaker led at halfway, with Evgenia Chikunova (Russia) following in second. They finished in that order ahead of Annie Lazor (United States). In the final, King led Schoenmaker at 50m. She still led at 100m, 0.8 seconds ahead of world record pace. With 50m to go Schoenmaker was 0.09 ahead of King, still on world record pace. It was a world record, sub 2.19 for the South African.
🥇Tatjana Schoenmaker 🇿🇦
🥈Lilly King 🇺🇸
🥉Annie Lazor 🇺🇸
Women’s 100m Butterfly
Zhang Yufei (China) and Emma McKeon (Australia) both came through the heats in times of 55.82. In semi-final one, it was Marie Wattel (France) who took victory ahead of McKeon and Torri Huske (United States). They went faster in the second semi with Yufei winning ahead of Sarah Sjoestrom (Sweden) and Maggie McNeil (Canada). Yufei took the lead at halfway of the final ahead of Huske and Wattel. Down the final 50m Huske took the lead but slowed down in the dying stride, missing out on a medal in the final 10m. Instead, it was McNeil who times her stroke to perfection ahead of Yufei and McKeon. The four of them were separated by 0.14 as McNeil set a new Olympic record.
🥇Maggie McNeil 🇨🇦
🥈Zhang Yufei 🇨🇳
🥉Emma McKeon 🇦🇺
Women’s 200m Butterfly
The withdrawal of Katinka Hosszu (Hungary) led to the farcical situation of all 16 swimmers swimming in the heats going through to the semi-final. It effectively functioned as a re-seeding race with Zhang Yufei (China) laying down a marker, going almost a second faster than anyone else. In the first heat, Regan Smith (United States) led at halfway. As she tired down the final stretch it was Hali Flickinger (United States) who took the win. Yufei came out incredibly hard in the second semi, leading by 1.6 at halfway. She did slow down but had more than enough gap to take the victory. In the final Yufei went out hard, leading by over a second after 50m and ahead of Flickinger by 1.57 at halfway. It was still over a second with 50m to go and Yufei set an Olympic record.
🥇Zhang Yufei 🇨🇳
🥈Regan Smith 🇺🇸
🥉Hali Flickinger 🇺🇸
Women’s 200m Individual Medley
It was Kate Douglass (United States) with the fastest time ahead of a rebounding Katinka Hosszu (Hungary). Abbie Wood (Great Britain) won the other heat. In the first semi, Yu Yiting (China) led the first leg but Alex Walsh (United States) had taken over by halfway. She led through the next 50m and held on to win whilst Hosszu could only finish fifth. In the second semi, Douglass led the fly but Kim Seo-young (South Korea) led at halfway. At the 150m mark it was Wood in the lead but Douglass managed to lead her home. A slower second semi allowed Hosszu to make the final. On the fly leg, it was Yiting who led and she held onto that lead going into the second leg ahead of Yui Ohashi (Japan). At the end of the breaststroke leg, it was Walsh who led Ohashi and Wood. It was a tight final 50m and Ohashi managed to seal the medley double ahead of Walsh. Douglass managed to edge out Wood by 0.09 for bronze.
🥇Yui Ohashi 🇯🇵
🥈Alex Walsh 🇺🇸
🥉Kate Douglass 🇺🇸
Women’s 400m Individual Medley
Yui Ohashi (Japan) took the second heat but Emma Weyant (United States) won the third heat in a faster time. Behind her was Aimee Wilmott (Great Britain) and Mireia Belmonte (Spain). Katinka Hosszu (Hungary) could only come fourth in that heat and the commentators noted it as a potential changing of the guard. In the final Hali Flickinger (United States) led after 100m before Ohashi began to take over in the backstroke section. She pushed her advantage in the breaststroke out to 1.99 seconds ahead of Weyant with Hosszu over a second behind them. Weyant did catch up with her late but she left it too late. Flickinger had a strong final led to take bronze ahead of fast-finishing Belmonte.
🥇Yui Ohashi 🇯🇵
🥈Emma Weyant 🇺🇸
🥉Hali Flickinger 🇺🇸
Women’s 4x100m Freestyle Relay
Australia swam the fastest time in the heats, being almost two seconds ahead of the Netherlands which had a great leg from Femke Heemskerk. Great Britain won the first heat ahead of the United States. In the final, Sweden led at 100m ahead of Denmark and Australia. Australia began to take over in the next leg, taking a short lead over Sweden and Great Britain. Another strong leg from Australia gave them an even greater edge, swimming ahead of world record pace. Cate Campbell was the final leg swimmer for Australia and managed to bring them home in 3.29.69. Behind them, Canada managed to pull themselves ahead of the United States in the final 50m to take silver.
🥇Australia 🇦🇺
🥈Canada 🇨🇦
🥉United States 🇺🇸
Women’s 4x200m Freestyle Relay
Australia swim the fastest semi-final, taking almost three seconds out of the United States with China also going under 7.50. After the first leg, China led, holding off Titmus of Australia. At halfway China still led, by 0.45 seconds with both teams ahead of the world record pace. At the end of the third leg, it was still China ahead of Australia. The United States had opened a bit of a gap in third ahead of Canada. With 100m to go, China led by 0.54 to Australia, over a second ahead of the world record pace. Incredibly Ledecky had pulled the American team into second with 50m to go. China was able to hand on, swimming a 7.40.33 to set a new world record ahead of the United States and Australia. Ledecky, on the final leg for the United States, was the only woman in the field to swim a split under 1.54.
🥇China 🇨🇳
🥈United States 🇺🇸
🥉Australia 🇦🇺
Women’s 4x100m Medley Relay
It was Canada who swum fastest, by 0.01 ahead of the United States and Australia a further 0.21 back. Great Britain arguably got too cute in team selection and missed the final by 0.42 seconds. The first leg of the final saw the three backstroke medalists battle again. This time Masse held on ahead of McKeown and Smith. Jacoby put the United States into the lead on the breaststroke leg. Huske managed to hold on despite McNeil and McKeon coming back at them. With 50m to go the United States had a 0.12 edge over Australia but Campbell was able to finish ahead with an Olympic record by 0.13 over the United States.
🥇Australia 🇦🇺
🥈United States 🇺🇸
🥉Canada 🇨🇦
Women’s 10km Open Water
Leonie Beck (Germany) was the first woman to be labelled as the leader and led the pack out along with Anastasiia Kirpichnikova (Russia). On the first lap, it was Ana Marcela Cunha (Brazil) and Ashley Twichell (United States) who ignored the feed zone, putting them ahead of the early pair of leaders. At the end of the second lap, it was still Twichell ahead of Cunha and Beck. During the following lap, Kirpichnikova slowly drifted backwards. Cunha and Twichell continued to share the opening two spots with Sharon van Rouwendaal (Netherlands) moving into third by the end of lap five. Twichell would lead with at little as 500m to go but soon Cunha and Rouwendaal were passed as Twichell could only fade into seventh.
🥇Ana Marcela Cunha 🇧🇷
🥈Sharon van Rouwendaal 🇳🇱
🥉Kareena Lee 🇦🇺
4x100m Mixed Medley
Great Britain set an Olympic record in the heats, where they beat the United States by over two seconds. China won the other semi-final against Australia. In the backstroke leg, it was the United States and Italy who led whilst Australia led Great Britain of those who began with a female. After the breaststroke leg, Italy led but had used two males. Of the teams using a male and a female, it was Great Britain who led. Heading into the last leg, Britain led ahead of China and Italy. With 50m to go, they led China by almost a second ahead of Italy. Britain won in an incredible world record with the United States not even getting a medal.
🥇Great Britain 🇬🇧
🥈China 🇨🇳
🥉Australia 🇦🇺
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