Titmus' triumph followed McKeon adding another medal to her collection.Īfter winning gold with Australia's 4x100m freestyle relay on Sunday, McKeon's 100m butterfly bronze is the sixth medal of her Olympic career - two of each colour. #7Olympics | #Tokyo2020 | #Swimming /xqbe1rgur1- 7Olympics July 26, 2021 "She has set this amazing standard and if I didn't have someone like her to chase, I wouldn't be swimming that way." "To pull it off against someone who has an amazing second half of her race, I'm really proud of that," Titmus said. The Australian then overwhelmed Ledecky, a renowned strong finisher who has five Olympic golds and 15 world championships in a storied career. Titmus ominously dialled up her pace: with 100m to go, she was within 0.16 seconds and closing. "I tried to stay as composed as I could and use my speed." Ariarne Titmus poses with the gold medal. "I knew she would be prepared so I guess I had to trust myself. "Honestly, at the 200 I was a little bit worried," Titmus said. Titmus snapped at Ledecky's heels for the initial 250 metres - on the surface, a cunning plan but of genuine mid-race concern. The Australian was within a whisker - 0.23 seconds - of Ledecky's world record. It's probably the biggest thing you can pull off in your sporting career," Titmus said. Kristaf Milak of Hungary won the men's 200 butterfly final with an Olympic record of 1:51.25.The swim team has Australia's entire medal collection - two gold, a silver and two bronze.Īnd Titmus's gold is destined to live largest after hunting down Katie Ledecky, handing the American megastar her first-ever defeat in an Olympic individual race. Japan’s Yui Ohashi won the women’s 200 individual medley gold, beating Americans Alex Walsh and Kate Douglass. The U.S failed to make the podium in an Olympic swimming relay for the first time in history, as the relay was led by Great Britain, the Russian Olympic Committee and Australia. In the men’s 100 freestyle semifinals, Caeleb Dressel won his heat in 47.23 with a 22.50 split to qualify first for the final, but was not on the men's 4X200 free relay team which missed out on the medal stand. I hope that there's more coming."Ĭhina’s Junxuan Yang was fourth in 1:55.01. “After the 400, I had to try to forget about it for this race,” Titmus said.Ĭanada's Penny Oleksiak, 21, finished third for the bronze medal in 1:54.70, winning her sixth medal to become the most decorated Canadian athlete in the history of the Summer Games. ![]() Titmus, who beat Ledecky for gold in the 400 freestyle on Monday, swam the final 50 in 28.80 seconds to run down Hong Kong's Siobhan Bernadette Haughey (1:53.92). Titmus won her second gold in Tokyo with a blazing final turn of the 200 on Tuesday to win in an Olympic-record time of 1:53.50. swimmers who didn’t have a chance to swim that event.” “I’m really just moving the page forward. “I just wanted to get the job done tonight,” Ledecky said after her 1,500 win. Ledecky won gold in both events in 2016, but Australia’s Ariarne Titmus won both with Ledecky taking silver and fifth place, respectively, this week. Ledecky bounced back from losing her 200 and 400 freestyle Olympic titles in consecutive days. ![]() The win was the first-ever Olympic gold in the event, as this is first Olympics the 1,500 has been run. American swimmer Katie Ledecky dominated the 1,500-meter freestyle in 15:37.34 to win her first gold medal of the Tokyo Olympics.
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