Nice Britain additionally gained the 4x200m freestyle relay on its Olympic debut in 1908Dates: 23 July-8 August Time in Tokyo: BST +8Protection: Watch dwell on BBC TV, BBC iPlayer, BBC Purple Button and on-line; Hear on BBC Radio 5 Dwell, Sports activities Additional and Sounds; dwell textual content and video clips on BBC Sport web site and app.
Olympic gold and silver medallists Tom Dean and Duncan Scott mixed to assist Nice Britain win the 4x200m freestyle relay and the workforce’s fifth Tokyo gold.
Their Olympic success follows world titles within the occasion in 2015 and 2017 and is an enchancment on the silver the workforce gained at Rio 2016.
Elsewhere, Britain’s rowers gained silver within the males’s quadruple sculls, however there was disappointment within the males’s 4 as a run of golds stretching again over the earlier 5 Olympics ended with a fourth-place end and a few erratic steering over the ultimate 500 metres.
Breaststroke specialist Abbie Wooden got here inside 0.11secs of claiming one other British medal within the pool as she was edged out of bronze within the 200m particular person medley.
Elsewhere and later right this moment
Britain’s Jack Laugher didn’t defend his males’s synchronised 3m springboard title as he and accomplice Dan Goodfellow completed seventh.British canoeist Mallory Franklin reached Thursday’s slalom semi-final because the slowest qualifier.Tao Geoghegan Hart and Geraint Thomas go for Nice Britain within the biking time trial which begins at 06:00 BST.Nice Britain’s males’s sevens workforce will tackle Argentina within the bronze-medal match at 09:30 BST after shedding 29-7 to New Zealand of their semi-final.Charlotte Dujardin, gold medallist in London and Rio, makes an attempt to turn into the primary British girl to win gold at three Video games within the particular person dressage closing at 09:30 BST.Britain’s Ben Whittaker and Lauren Value each progressed to the quarter-finals within the boxing, whereas Karriss Artingstall is right into a semi-final.
‘It’s totally emotional’
Britain’s victory within the 4x200m freestyle relay was comfy in the long run as they got here dwelling greater than three seconds away from the second-placed Russian Olympic Committee workforce.
Nevertheless it initially seemed as if it may be tighter when Dean, swimming the opening leg, touched third in a cut up that was a second and a half slower than the time that gained him particular person gold.
Nevertheless Britain’s energy within the depth informed as Man, Matthew Richards and Scott, with a 1:43.45 closing leg, stretched away from the remainder.
Whereas Man broke down in tears as he watched Scott anchor the workforce dwelling, the USA seemed on in disbelief as there was no American medal for under the second time within the occasion’s Olympic historical past – the opposite event being the Moscow 1980 Video games, which the US boycotted.
“As a child, dreaming of an Olympic gold medal was my dream,” Man stated. “After 25 years to do it lastly, it is very emotional.”
Sculls take silver as 4 veer off track
Britain’s quadruple sculls silver was the primary time they’ve gained a medal on the self-discipline since its introduction into the Video games in 1976.
Harry Leask, Angus Groom, Tom Barras and Jack Beaumont held off the fast-finishing Australia boat by 0.22secs.
The British boat was drawn in unfavoured lane one, however went out exhausting to place strain on the remainder of the sector.
“It was wild on the market. The circumstances are tough, with a tailwind, however it’s what we’re used to again dwelling so we have skilled on this so many instances, it didn’t shake us,” stated Beaumont.
“We determined that, as we had been in lane one with an out of doors likelihood of a medal, we had been going to take it to them and we actually did it.”
Britain has a for much longer historical past of success within the blue-riband males’s 4 occasion, with a run of 5 successive golds stretching again to James Cracknell, Steve Redgrave, Tim Foster and Matthew Pinsent’s victory in Sydney 2000.
The category of 2021 couldn’t add to that streak nevertheless. In second place heading into the ultimate 500 metres, Nice Britain veered offline, coming near hitting the Italian boat earlier than ending in fourth.
“I am answerable for the steering. I screwed up,” stated an emotional Ollie Prepare dinner afterwards.
“I forgot the steering just a little bit and that value us a medal. To the lads, I am sorry I did not steer us one of the best line on the finish.”
Ledecky lands sixth gold, however loses to Titmus once more
American Katie Ledecky set a brand new Olympic document on her approach to victory within the 1500m freestyle and a sixth Video games gold of her profession.
However Ledecky was outshone once more by Australian 20-year-old Ariarne Titmus, who added the 200m freestyle title to her 400m freestyle gold on Monday.
Titmus touched dwelling in a single minute 53.50secs to turn into the primary Australian to win the occasion since Susie O’Neill in 2000.
“I am bloody exhausted,” Titmus stated.
“I am not going to let it settle in an excessive amount of – I am solely midway via my program. It is loopy to assume I nonetheless have the relay and the 800m to go. However I’ve the afternoon off now, so I am going to have a relaxation, come again in for a lightweight swim and prepare for tomorrow.”
Titmus and Ledecky each compete within the ladies’s 800m freestyle, with heats beginning on Thursday, and are prone to face off once more within the ladies’s 4x200m relay.
