An Australian crew led by Mollie O’Callaghan and Ariarne Titmus received the ladies’s Olympic gold with the second-fastest time in historical past.
Led by O’Callaghan and led dwelling by Titmus, with Lani Pallister and Brianna Throssell on the center legs, they battled it out in an Olympic document seven minutes 38.08 seconds at La Protection Enviornment on Thursday.
America, led by Katie Ledecky (7:40.86), took silver, and defending champion China (7:42.34) took bronze.
Ledecky turned essentially the most adorned Olympic swimmer of all time. She now has 13 Olympic medals, yet one more than her compatriots Jenny Thompson, Dara Torres and Natalie Coughlin and Australia’s Emma McKeon.
#Silver For the US! 🇺🇸
An excellent efficiency to take second place within the girls’s 4x200m freestyle relay. 🏊
America has medaled on this occasion at each Olympic Video games because it was first held in 1996, for a complete of 8 medals in a row!
Katie Ledecky additionally breaks the medal document at… picture.twitter.com/HDWZ0KB4v1
— The Olympic Video games (@Olympics) August 1, 2024
Australia acquired revenge for his or her failure to win gold in Tokyo when China set a brand new world document to shock them and the Individuals.
Australia regained the world document on the 2023 World Championships and was the overwhelming favorite in Paris, with its time in Paris second solely to its personal world finest time.
O’Callaghan made a spectacular begin, clocking a time of 1:53.52 to present them the lead, nevertheless it was Titmus who sealed the deal, ending in a formidable time of 1:52.95 to go away the US and China behind.
Gold for the ladies’s 4x200m freestyle relay 🥇
Mollie O’Callaghan, Lani Pallister, Brianna Throssell and Ariarne Titmus dominated the sector in 7:38.08 setting a brand new Olympic document! #AllAUS | @swimmingaus | @delfinesaurio picture.twitter.com/TgKB8fTCNO
— Australian Olympic Crew (@AUSOlympicTeam) August 1, 2024
Earlier within the pool, Kate Douglass underlined her outstanding versatility with gold within the girls’s 200m breaststroke, beating Tokyo champion Tatjana Smith, who bid farewell to swimming with a silver medal in her remaining race.
Profiting from her turning prowess, American Douglass outpaced Smith after each size and held off the South African to the touch the wall in 2:19.24 at La Protection Enviornment.
World champion Tes Schouten received bronze for the Netherlands, her first Olympic medal.
Douglass’ victory was her first Olympic gold and second of the competitors following her silver medal within the girls’s 4x100m freestyle.
A grasp of all types, she additionally received bronze within the 200-meter particular person medley in Tokyo and is a number one contender for gold in the identical occasion in Paris.
“I’m actually excited. I really feel like for some time I wasn’t certain if it might be potential to develop into an Olympic champion, and now it’s actually thrilling to see it occur,” the 22-year-old instructed reporters.
Having received gold within the 100m breaststroke on day three, Smith was aiming to equal compatriot Penny Heyns, who received gold within the 100m and 200m on the 1996 Atlanta Video games and stays the one feminine swimmer to take action.
He needed to accept silver, however this gave him a complete of 4 Olympic medals, two gold and two silver, overtaking Chad le Clos (one gold, three silver) as essentially the most adorned South African swimmer on the Olympics.
“It was an unbelievable race and ending it with a silver medal however with a battle was the easiest way to complete it,” the 27-year-old instructed reporters.
“I don’t know if I’ll even have a look at the pool for the following 10 years.
“It is rather troublesome for a swimmer to swim for enjoyable. I don’t know why. If there’s a pool social gathering or one thing, no one desires to swim.”
In the meantime, Canadian teenager Summer time McIntosh claimed her second gold medal by keeping off a robust subject within the girls’s 200m butterfly remaining.
The 17-year-old touched the wall in an Olympic document time of two minutes and three.03 seconds, 0.81 seconds forward of American silver medallist Regan Smith.
China’s Zhang Yufei took bronze.
It was McIntosh’s third medal of the Paris Video games, having claimed a dominant gold within the 400m particular person medley on the third day of the meet and silver within the 400m freestyle on the primary day.
The butterfly victory additionally made McIntosh the primary Canadian swimmer to win a number of Olympic gold medals.
Within the males’s 200m backstroke remaining, Hubert Kos claimed Hungary’s first swimming gold on the Paris Video games.
The 2023 world champion got here from behind to complete in a single minute and 54.26 seconds, 0.56 forward of Greek silver medallist Apostolos Christou, on the La Protection Enviornment.
Swiss Roman Mityukov took bronze.
Christou led for the primary 150 metres, after which Kos moved into second on the 150 mark earlier than shifting up a gear to overhaul him.
Kos has been working with Michael Phelps’ former coach Bob Bowman, who can be coaching French triple gold medallist Leon Marchand.
“I simply stored swimming and swimming and, you realize, I used to be simply comfortable to have the ability to put my hand on the wall first,” the Hungarian mentioned.
