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USA’s Caeleb Dressel set an Olympic report on his strategy to profitable the lads’s 100m freestyle gold medal as he seeks to turn into one of the profitable swimmers at a person Video games.
Dressel received in a time of 47.02 seconds to assert his second gold in Tokyo.
China took gold in an exhilarating girls’s 4x200m freestyle in a world-record time of seven minutes 40.33 seconds.
In the meantime Nice Britain’s Commonwealth champion James Wilby missed out on a medal within the males’s 200m breaststroke.
He was second quickest within the semi-final and began nicely within the closing earlier than fading.
Australia’s Zac Stubblety-Cook dinner broke an Olympic report to win the race with a time of two:06.38, ending forward of Arno Kamminga of the Netherlands and Finland’s Matti Mattsson.
“Bodily and mentally it hurts,” Wilby advised BBC Sport.
“The result’s what it’s. It’s onerous, the way in which I swim it needs to be an ideal balancing act and if I’m off ever so barely it actually pays off in a nasty manner.”
Dressel edges thriller for second gold
Dressel claimed his second gold of the Video games following his half in USA’s 4x100m relay, nevertheless it was an in depth race as Australia’s Kyle Chalmers completed simply 0.06sec adrift with Russian Kliment Kolesnikov in third.
Dressel might end these Olympics as one of the profitable swimmers at a person Video games as he’s in competition for an additional 4 medals – two particular person (100m butterfly and 50m) and two in relays (medley and combined medley).
Solely two swimmers in Olympic historical past have received greater than six medals at a Video games – Michael Phelps with eight in Beijing in 2008 and Mark Spitz with seven in Munich in 1972.
“There’s been numerous strain on me, there’s nothing fallacious with strain however there’s with stress. I dealt with it nicely and I’m completely satisfied,” Dressel advised BBC Sport.
Caeleb Dressel is aiming to complete these Olympics with six gold medals
Dressel’s United States team-mate Robert Finke received a shock gold within the males’s 800m freestyle closing.
He got here out of nowhere within the closing 75m to pip world champion Gregorio Paltrinieri by 0.24secs, whereas Mykhailo Romanchuk took the bronze medal.
Sturdy showings from GB swimmers
Making her first look in an Olympic closing, Britain’s Alys Thomas completed seventh within the 200m butterfly however put in a formidable efficiency as she touched dwelling in 2:07.90, knocking off multiple second from her semi-final time.
Duncan Scott, who received 200m freestyle silver earlier this week, put himself in competition for one more particular person medal as he completed quickest within the males’s 200m medley semi-final.
Duncan Scott has received a workforce gold and a person silver thus far in Tokyo
Luke Greenbank certified quickest for the 200m backstroke closing with a time of 1:54.98 however Brodie Williams was unable to progress as he completed fifteenth.
Anna Hopkin completed fourth in her 100m freestyle semi-final, securing her spot within the closing by simply 0.01sec however Freya Anderson simply missed out as she completed eleventh general.
Lastly, Molly Renshaw and Abbie Wooden each booked their locations within the 200m breaststroke closing by ending third and fourth of their respective semi-finals.
