. Wang Shun wins gold in men’s 200m individual medley

1 Wang (CHN) – 1:55.00
2 Scott (GBR)
3 Desplanches (SUI)

Duncan Scott became the first British swimmer in 113 years to win three medals at one Olympics as he added a silver in the 200metres individual medley.

The 24-year-old finished in a time of 1min 55.28sec – just 0.28sec behind Shun Wang, who took the gold for China. Jeremy Desplanches got bronze for Switzerland.

Scott won gold in the 4x200m freestyle relay and silver in the 200m freestyle earlier this week.

. Tatjana Schoenmaker wins gold in women’s 200m breaststroke

1 Schoenmaker (RSA) – 2:18.95 (World Record)
2 King (USA)
3 Lazor (USA)

First woman ever under 2:19. Superb swim.

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Day 6 –

. China win women’s 4x200m freestyle relay gold

1. China

2. USA

3. Australia

. Zhang (China) wins gold in women’s 200m butterfly

1 Zhang – 2:03.86 (Olympic record)

2 Smith – 2:05.30

3 Flickinger – 2:05.65

. Zac Stubblety-Cook (Australia) wins gold and sets a new Olympic record in a stunning race in the Men’s 200m breaststroke.

The last time an Australian man won a breaststroke gold medal at the Olympics was in 1964 when the Games were being held in Tokyo. More than half a century later, in the same city, an Australian again dominated the four-lap discipline as 22-year-old Zac Stubblety-Cook won the men’s 200m breaststroke final and broke the Olympic record.

Dutch 100m silver medallist Arno Kamminga led at the last turn and was on world record pace in a battle with Finland’s Matti Mattsson, with Stubblety-Cook down in third and 1.2 seconds adrift.

The 22-year-old then powered through the final 50 to secure his country’s fifth gold in the pool so far and first for the men.

. Dressel wins men’s 100m freestyle gold

1 Dressel – 47.02 (Olympic record)

2 Chalmers – 47.08

3 Kolesnikov – 47.44

There is a reason Dressel is being called the new Michael Phelps. He was basically unbeatable, even though fellow compatriot Chalmers came so, so close to doing so. Chalmers started a little back, made the turn in third and it was only in the final 20m or so that he overtook Kolesnikov and was stroke for stroke with Dressel. He touched the wall 0.06 seconds after the American and that time, 47.08, is actually equal to Chalmers’s personal best, so it’s hard to argue he could have swum faster.

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Day 5 –

Great Britain win men’s 4x200m freestyle relay gold

1 Great Britain – 6:58.58

2 Russia – 7:01.81

3 Australia – 7:01.84

When Scott touched the wall, Great Britain were three seconds ahead of the team in second, from the Russian Olympic Committee. Their winning time, 6min 58.58sec, was a British record, a European record, the third fastest in history, and only three-hundredths off the world record set by Michael Phelps’s US team at the world championships in 2009. It was one of the great swims in British Olympic history, and won them their first gold medal in the event since 1908. It also felt like a resounding confirmation that this is a new era of British swimming, run by a very different sort of squad.

The win also made Dean the first British man to win two swimming medals at the same Olympics since 1908 too (but not the first British Olympian – Becky Adlington did it in 2008). He had taken a year off from his engineering degree to get ready to compete here, and was planning to start it up again in September, but as he said himself as he looked down at his gold medal “that might change now”. Six months back, when he was suffering through Covid, he wasn’t even sure he would be able to compete at the Games. Now, in the space of 24 hours, he has become a two-time Olympic champion. Life moves pretty fast when you can swim the 200m in 1min 44.2sec.

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Day 4 –

Britain’s Tom Dean and Duncan Scott take Olympic gold and silver in men’s 200m free.

First British Olympic one-two in the pool since 1908.

Tom Dean touches ahead of Duncan Scott for a superb victory.

Tom Dean captured the gold in 1 minute, 44.22 seconds, while teammate Duncan Scott picked up the silver in 1:44.26. The bronze went to Brazil’s Fernando Scheffer at 1:44.66.

Hwang Sun-Woo (KOR) led for most of the race, but tightened in the final 25m to finish seventh.

. Gold! Women’s 100m backstroke – Kaylee McKeown (AUS)

Gold for the world record holder! Another stunning late run for gold. What an exciting meet this is becoming. Kylie Masse (CAN) took silver, Regan Smith (USA) bronze.

At the turn, previous world record holder Masse led from another previous world record holder Smith, but McKeown stormed past to touch first in a new Olympic record.

Emily Seebohm came in fifth, Great Britain’s Kathleen Dawson sixth.

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DAY 3 –

. In the diving, nerveless duo Tom Daley and Matty Lee finished with 471.81 points having never dropped out of the top two and took the Olympic title 1.23 points ahead of China, with the Russian Olympic Committee third.

“I still can’t honestly believe what is happening,” said Daley. “That moment, being about to be announced as Olympic champions, I was gone. I was blubbering. You want to win an Olympic gold medal but never think you actually will.

“I will carry on but I will definitely take a break,” he added. “There are some beverages with my name on it to celebrate with my husband and family. This means an incredible amount. All athletes put in such hard work and dedication into our performances. To be an Olympic champion after four attempts at it feels extremely special. I still honestly can’t believe what’s happening and I honestly didn’t think I would get there in the first place, but here we are.”

Daley’s diving partner, Lee, said their victory made his sacrifices worthwhile: “In 2018 I moved my whole life to London from Leeds, I had nothing really in London. Our aim was to get an Olympic medal and for it to go the way we wanted it to is awesome. I owe a lot to Tom because he has taught me a lot.”

. Gold! Men’s 100m breaststroke – Adam Peaty (GBR)

Was there any doubt? Peaty, now the two-time Olympic champion and world-record holder, goes back-to-back, leading from the first stroke to the last.

Arno Kamminga (NED) takes silver, Nicolò Martinenghi (ITA) bronze.

Adam Peaty is proud to become the first Brit to defend an Olympic swimming title, but it won’t sink in until he’s home. The gold, he reckons, goes to all his family and his team, and he’s looking forward to the relays.

As for the race, he says you touch the wall and generally you know if you’ve won. He’s feeling a lot of relief, but the moment when you win, you release all the frustration of the five years leading up to it, a mixture of elation, adrenaline and pride. Talking about how hard he worked to make it happen, he says that “there’s not a tangible word for the amount of investment that’s gone into this swim,” and “if you think you’ve emptied the tank there’s another tank to empty”. He talks about a lot of bad moments getting ready for the Games, when he didn’t want to push further, but he did, then explains that having a son gave him a new perspective on the world. He’s a very emotional person and cried the second his wife gave birth; now he hopes his son can learn from him “to be resilient, to be committed, to take the emotional intelligence that sport provides”.

Swimming has taken a lot out of him – he’s not lost a race in seven years – so now he wants to rest and enjoy life. But he’s not yet swum the perfect race, so that’s a target for him now.

. FOR the fourth consecutive race in the women’s 100m backstroke the Olympic record has fallen. Regan Smith (USA) has retaken possession of the mark for the second time this meet after winning the first semi-final. Rhyan Elizabeth White (USA) came second, Kathleen Dawson (GBR) third.

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DAY 2 –

Chase Kalisz and Jay Litherland have won gold and silver for the United States, respectively, in the men’s 400m individual medley. That’s the seventh time Team USA have gone 1-2 in the event overall and first since Michael Phelps and Erik Vendt at Athens 2004, which was Phelps’s first career gold.

The bronze went to Brendon Smith, the 21-year-old Victorian who captured Australia’s first medal of the Tokyo Games after powering home from last place with 100m remaining in the freestyle leg in only his second Olympic swim.