Swimming: Relay silver completes Britain's best ever Games
3 years, 4 months ago

Swimming: Relay silver completes Britain's best ever Games

The Hindu  

Duncan Scott became Britain's most decorated athlete at a single Olympics with his fourth medal from the Tokyo pool on Sunday as the country's all-time most successful swim team piled on the superlatives in their best ever Games. The United States took the final 4x100 medley relay gold in world record time but runners-up Luke Greenbank, Adam Peaty, James Guy and Scott -- with James Wilby in the heats -- smashed a much older benchmark as well as the European record. READ: Scott's three silvers and a gold, adding to the two relay silvers he won in Rio Olympics, sent him past the single Games hauls of gymnast Max Whitlock, and cyclists Chris Hoy, Jason Kenny and Bradley Wiggins as multiple medallists of the modern era. Peaty, the dominant men's 100m breaststroke champion and first British swimmer to successfully defend an Olympic title, and Guy both finished with three medals each while Tom Dean took two freestyle golds.

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Great Britain’s swimming head coach Furniss announces retirement
4 months, 1 week ago

Great Britain’s swimming head coach Furniss announces retirement

The Hindu  

British swimming’s most successful head coach Bill Furniss announced his retirement on Friday after overseeing his fourth Olympic Games, Aquatics GB said in a statement. Britain finished ninth in the swimming medals table in Paris, with one gold and four silvers, having enjoyed their best swimming performance in Tokyo with four golds. READ | American gymnast Jordan Chiles says losing …

Great Britain swimmers return six-medal haul including several gold near misses
4 months, 1 week ago

Great Britain swimmers return six-medal haul including several gold near misses

The Independent  

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Great Britain’s 4×400 metres relay men and women win bronze medals
4 months, 2 weeks ago

Great Britain’s 4×400 metres relay men and women win bronze medals

The Independent  

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‘It was magical.’ U.S. wins first medal in artistic swimming in 20 years
4 months, 2 weeks ago

‘It was magical.’ U.S. wins first medal in artistic swimming in 20 years

LA Times  

The U.S. reacts after clinching a silver medal in the artistic swimming team acrobatic routine at the 2024 Summer Olympics Wednesday in Saint-Denis, France. “We’ve had a crazy two years,” veteran swimmer Anita Alvarez said. Fuentes and her staff created a routine inspired by sorcery, a theme the coach wrote had “always captivated me due to the profound mystery and …

A relay impressive haul
4 months, 2 weeks ago

A relay impressive haul

China Daily  

From left: Wang Shun, Qin Haiyang, Pan Zhanle and Xu Jiayu secured two golds, two silvers and one bronze for the Chinese men's swimming team in Paris. If there remained any doubts over his world-record-breaking performance in the 100m freestyle final, the "human thruster", as Pan has been nicknamed by Chinese fans, dispelled them all, as he helped the Chinese …

Britain celebrate their best day of the Olympics
4 months, 3 weeks ago

Britain celebrate their best day of the Olympics

Daily Mail  

Team GB enjoyed a fantastic Friday at the Paris Olympics with three gold medals in a thrilling three hours. Britain added another two silvers in swimming during the evening, as Ben Proud finished second in the 50m freestyle and Duncan Scott was runner-up to Leon Marchand in the 200m individual medley, the French poster boy claiming his fourth gold of …

Team GB's fabulous Friday! Britain celebrate their best day of the Paris Olympics with three golds and Duncan Scott and Ben Proud taking silver in the pool - as medal haul reaches 27
4 months, 3 weeks ago

Team GB's fabulous Friday! Britain celebrate their best day of the Paris Olympics with three golds and Duncan Scott and Ben Proud taking silver in the pool - as medal haul reaches 27

Daily Mail  

Team GB enjoyed a fantastic Friday at the Paris Olympics with three gold medals in a thrilling three hours. Bryony Page, 33, looked thrilled at the end of her routine, which was the most difficult in the competition, after smashing her eight moves on the trampoline There were hugs, tears and smiles after Page completed her finals routine at the …

Ledecky wins record 13th medal with a silver. Summer McIntosh and Kate Douglass strike gold
4 months, 3 weeks ago

Ledecky wins record 13th medal with a silver. Summer McIntosh and Kate Douglass strike gold

Associated Press  

NANTERRE, France — It wasn’t the medal Katie Ledecky would’ve preferred. On a night when Canadian phenom Summer McIntosh romped to another victory and Kate Douglass claimed a gold for the Americans, Ledecky collected the 13th medal of her stellar career to become the most decorated woman in swimming history Thursday. Ledecky and three American teammates took silver in the …

Swimming’s next generation, from all over the globe, claims the spotlight at Paris Olympics
4 months, 3 weeks ago

Swimming’s next generation, from all over the globe, claims the spotlight at Paris Olympics

Associated Press  

NANTERRE, France — Swimming’s next generation of stars claimed the spotlight at the Paris Olympics on Monday night, a brash group that comes from all over the globe. Then perhaps the biggest surprise of all: Titmus, the world-record holder and defending gold medalist in the women’s 200 free, was knocked off by O’Callaghan. McIntosh collected her first medal of any …

Swimming to Olympics success, the Aussie way
4 months, 3 weeks ago

Swimming to Olympics success, the Aussie way

Hindustan Times  

Paris: Rohan Taylor, head coach of the Australian national swimming team, sums up why Australia, with a population that is a tiny percentage of the powerhouses it is up against, has a pipeline that keeps the talent flow going. Then if they swim faster, Swimming Australia comes in and brings them into what we call national event camps,” Taylor said. …

Full list of major swimming Records broken at the Olympics
5 months ago

Full list of major swimming Records broken at the Olympics

The Hindu  

The Olympics have always been a stage where athletes strive for greatness, pushing the boundaries. | Photo Credit: Getty Images Perhaps the most successful active female swimmer for USA, Katie Ledecky broke her world record for women’s 800m freestyle swimming at the 2016 Rio Olympics. | Photo Credit: Getty Images Team USA broke its own men’s 4 × 100 m …

With plenty of swimming stars at the 2024 Olympics, France’s Marchand may shine brightest
5 months, 2 weeks ago

With plenty of swimming stars at the 2024 Olympics, France’s Marchand may shine brightest

Associated Press  

Most of the big stars from the last Olympics will be back at the pool in Paris. At last summer’s world championships in Fukuoka, Marchand broke Phelps’ 15-year-old world record in the 400-meter individual medley, to go along with victories in the 200 IM and 200 butterfly — two more of Phelps’ signature events. I know I can improve this.” …

Pan swims fastest 100 meters in history to help China win relay gold at aquatics worlds
10 months, 1 week ago

Pan swims fastest 100 meters in history to help China win relay gold at aquatics worlds

Associated Press  

DOHA, Qatar — Despite the absence of many of the sport’s biggest names, the first day of the swimming events saw a world record at the World Aquatics Championships on Sunday. Teenager Pan Zhanle swam the fastest 100 meters in history as he led off China’s gold medal-winning 4x100 freestyle relay team. Erika Fairweather became New Zealand’s first ever gold …

Australia names slimmed down team for Qatar world championships
1 year ago

Australia names slimmed down team for Qatar world championships

The Hindu  

Swimming Australia has named a slimmed-down team of 24 to compete at February’s world championships in Qatar with a slew of big names skipping the meet as they continue preparations for the Paris Olympics. A team of 38, including six open water swimmers, won 30 medals at this year’s world championships in Fukuoka but only 18 Australians will compete in …

Britain’s Olympic success will be judged on athlete happiness – not just medals – at Paris 2024
1 year, 3 months ago

Britain’s Olympic success will be judged on athlete happiness – not just medals – at Paris 2024

The Independent  

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World Athletics Championships 2023: USA claims crushing victory in men’s 4x400m relay
1 year, 3 months ago

World Athletics Championships 2023: USA claims crushing victory in men’s 4x400m relay

The Hindu  

The United States maintained its vice-like grip of the men’s 4x400 metres relay on Sunday when it emphatically won its ninth world gold from the last 10 finals. Quincy Hall and Vernon Norwood built an early lead before Justin Robinson, who also got a gold in the mixed 4x400 on the opening night, stretched it to give anchor Rai Benjamin …

Today in Sports - Week Ahead, August 4 - August 10
1 year, 4 months ago

Today in Sports - Week Ahead, August 4 - August 10

Associated Press  

Aug. 4 1936 — American athlete Jesse Owens wins his 2nd gold medal at the Berlin Olympics; beats German Luz Long in the long jump final with an Olympic record. 2007 — Lorena Ochoa wins the Women’s British Open — the first women’s professional tournament played at venerable St. Andrews — for her first major title. 2018 — Georgia Hall …

World Aquatics Championships: Katie Ledecky overtakes Michael Phelps for most individual golds
1 year, 4 months ago

World Aquatics Championships: Katie Ledecky overtakes Michael Phelps for most individual golds

Hindustan Times  

Here's why Katie Ledecky is one of the greatest freestyle swimmers in the history of the sport. The 26-year-old American won the 800-freestyle on Saturday at the World Aquatics Championships to become the first swimmer to win six golds in the same event at the worlds. Silver medallist China's Li Bingjie, gold medallist USA's Katie Ledecky and bronze medallist Australia's …

Swimming World Championships 2023: Qin Haiyang shatters men’s 200m breaststroke world record, O’Callaghan defends 100m freestyle title
1 year, 4 months ago

Swimming World Championships 2023: Qin Haiyang shatters men’s 200m breaststroke world record, O’Callaghan defends 100m freestyle title

The Hindu  

Qin Haiyang of China set a new world record in the men’s 200 metres breaststroke event, winning the gold medal in a time of 2:05.48s at the swimming world championships on Friday. 🥇50m 🥇100m 🥇200m WR #AQUAFukuoka23pic.twitter.com/G63Y9eGbZ3 — World Aquatics July 28, 2023 Australia’s Mollie O’Callaghan stormed to victory in the women’s 100 metres freestyle race, capturing gold in a …

Scott to drop 100m free at worlds due to schedule clash
1 year, 6 months ago

Scott to drop 100m free at worlds due to schedule clash

The Hindu  

Britain’s most decorated Olympic swimmer Duncan Scott will compete in only one solo event, the 200m individual medley, as well as relays at next month’s world championships in Japan due to a schedule clash. READ: Australia heads to World Championships excited after positive trials The four medals made him Britain’s most medalled athlete at a single Olympics. Scott also won …

USA Swimming offers cash for Olympic relay sweep
1 year, 9 months ago

USA Swimming offers cash for Olympic relay sweep

The Hindu  

USA Swimming will reward its athletes financially if the Americans sweep all seven relays at this summer’s world championships and the 2024 Paris Olympics. The program announced on Tuesday by the sport’s national governing body involves the men’s and women’s 4x100-meter medley relays, 4x100 freestyle relays, 4x200 free relays and mixed 4x100 medley relay. If the U.S. wins all seven …

Tom Dean finds silver lining at Commonwealth Games
2 years, 4 months ago

Tom Dean finds silver lining at Commonwealth Games

The Independent  

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Britain stripped of men's 4x100m relay silver medal at Tokyo 2020
2 years, 10 months ago

Britain stripped of men's 4x100m relay silver medal at Tokyo 2020

China Daily  

Athletes compete in the men's 4x100 metres relay at last year's Tokyo Olympics. GENEVA -- China is expected to bag its first Summer Olympic sprinter medal after Britain's men's 4x100m relay team was stripped of its silver medal at Tokyo 2020 after team member Chijindu Ujah was confirmed to have violated anti-doping regulations. Ujah underwent an in-competition doping test after …

Tokyo Olympics 2020: From Emma McKeon making history to 4x100m mixed medley debut, five memorable swimming moments
3 years, 4 months ago

Tokyo Olympics 2020: From Emma McKeon making history to 4x100m mixed medley debut, five memorable swimming moments

Firstpost  

The Tokyo Olympics swimming ended Sunday with USA on top of the medals table. Here are five memorable moments: The Katie-Ariarne show The Katie Ledecky-Ariarne Titmus rivalry lived up to its billing, with the pair locking horns across three high-quality races. Nailbiter Tatjana Schoenmaker announced herself on the Olympic stage in style when she smashed the women’s 200m breaststroke world …

Swimming: U.S. win men's 4x100m medley relay in world record time
3 years, 4 months ago

Swimming: U.S. win men's 4x100m medley relay in world record time

The Hindu  

Caeleb Dressel said it was "really special" to end his Olympics with a storming butterfly leg to help the United States smash their own men's 4x100m medley relay world record on Sunday. The US team of Ryan Murphy, Michael Andrew, Dressel, and Zach Apple touched in 3min 26.78sec to shatter the global mark of 3:27.28 set at the 2009 world …

Britain smash world record to win inaugural Olympic mixed 4x100m relay gold
3 years, 4 months ago

Britain smash world record to win inaugural Olympic mixed 4x100m relay gold

Deccan Chronicle  

Tokyo: Adam Peaty's British team smashed the world record to win the inaugural Olympic 4x100m mixed medley relay gold on Saturday, outgunning China and Australia. Britain's four-strong team of Kathleen Dawson, Peaty, James Guy and Anna Hopkin touched in 3min 37.58sec to break the previous 3:38.41 mark set by China in Qingdao last year. Britain chose to lead off with …

Tokyo Olympics 2020: Adam Peaty-led British team smash world record to win 4x100m mixed medley relay gold
3 years, 4 months ago

Tokyo Olympics 2020: Adam Peaty-led British team smash world record to win 4x100m mixed medley relay gold

Firstpost  

Britain’s four-strong team of Kathleen Dawson, Peaty, James Guy and Anna Hopkin touched in 3min 37.58sec to break the previous 3:38.41 mark set by China in Qingdao last year. Adam Peaty’s British team smashed the world record to win the inaugural Olympic 4x100m mixed medley relay gold on Saturday, outgunning China and Australia. Britain chose to lead off with Dawson, …

Tokyo Olympics: Great Britain clinch historic first-ever gold medal in triathlon mixed team relay race
3 years, 4 months ago

Tokyo Olympics: Great Britain clinch historic first-ever gold medal in triathlon mixed team relay race

India Today  

Alex Yee was mobbed by his Great Britain teammates, before he collapses to the floor, an indication of just how much the young Briton gave on that run. Great Britain created history on Saturday as they won the first-ever Olympic gold in the triathlon mixed relay in 1:23:41, adding a third medal to their triathlon haul at Tokyo's Odaiba Marine …

Tokyo Olympics, Swimming: Americans Caeleb Dressel and Bobby Finke win big
3 years, 4 months ago

Tokyo Olympics, Swimming: Americans Caeleb Dressel and Bobby Finke win big

The Hindu  

Caeleb Dressel of the United States won the men's 100m freestyle gold and compatriot Bobby Finke clinched the 800m free in a day of double American glory in the Tokyo pool. World champion Dressel powered to victory an Olympic record time of 47.02, finishing six hundredths of a second ahead of Rio winner Kyle Chalmers of Australia, with Russian Kliment …

Tokyo 2020 Olympics: Great Britain wins 200m men's freestyle relay
3 years, 4 months ago

Tokyo 2020 Olympics: Great Britain wins 200m men's freestyle relay

The Hindu  

Great Britain has won the men’s 4x200-metre freestyle relay at the Olympics for the first time since 1908, but missed a world record in the process by a whisker. With a powerhouse group that included the one-two finishers in the 200m freestyle at the ongoing Tokyo Olympic Games, Britain blew away the field in six minutes, 58.58 seconds. James Guy …

Swimmer Wins Tokyo Olympics Gold After Beating COVID-19 Twice In 5 Months
3 years, 4 months ago

Swimmer Wins Tokyo Olympics Gold After Beating COVID-19 Twice In 5 Months

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING Swimmer Tom Dean’s friends and family erupted in celebration after he won gold for Great Britain in the 200-meter freestyle at the Tokyo Olympics on Tuesday. “When I was sitting in my flat in isolation, an Olympic gold seemed a million miles off,” Dean said following his win. “But my coach brought me round and it’s all …

Tokyo Olympics | 'Single greatest achievement of my life,' says Tom Dean on beating COVID twice before bagging gold
3 years, 4 months ago

Tokyo Olympics | 'Single greatest achievement of my life,' says Tom Dean on beating COVID twice before bagging gold

The Hindu  

Britain’s Tom Dean contracted COVID-19 not once but twice in the run-up to the Olympics, leaving him doubting he’d make it to the national trials, never mind Tokyo. “I’m thinking how am I going to be able to recover from this in time to get a solid block of work done before the Olympic trials?” he said, “It was tough …

Tokyo Olympics: Britain's Dean comes back from Covid to win 200m freestyle gold
3 years, 4 months ago

Tokyo Olympics: Britain's Dean comes back from Covid to win 200m freestyle gold

The Hindu  

Britain's Tom Dean came back from two bouts of COVID-19 to claim Olympic gold in the pool on Tuesday, edging out team-mate Duncan Scott to win the 200m freestyle in Tokyo Olympics. Dean said a gold medal seemed "a million miles away" when he was consigned to isolation in January after contracting the virus for the second time in five …

Deep pool of U.S. Olympians pushing to win biggest medal haul
3 years, 5 months ago

Deep pool of U.S. Olympians pushing to win biggest medal haul

LA Times  

The United States is once again projected to win the most medals by the time the Tokyo Olympics end Aug. 8. “Normally a data-driven forecast of the Summer Olympics provides a good assessment of how the medal table will look,” Simon Gleave, Gracenote’s head of sports analysis, said in an email. We can never truly know what will happen.” Sydney …

Tokyo Olympics 2020: Australia to take 35-strong squad of swimmers after impressive showing at trials
3 years, 6 months ago

Tokyo Olympics 2020: Australia to take 35-strong squad of swimmers after impressive showing at trials

Firstpost  

Swimming has long been the medal-winning backbone of the country, which claimed 10 in the pool at the 2016 Games in Rio, matching its feat from London four years earlier. Adelaide: Australia will take a 35-strong swim team to Tokyo for next month’s Olympics following six-day trials that witnessed a world record, four new Commonwealth marks and a host of …

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