Stubblety-Cook holds the second fastest time in history in the discipline, which he recorded just last month. In the men’s 200m breaststroke semi-final, Australian medal prospect Zac Stubblety-Cook qualified fastest for the medal race. She was followed in by compatriot Erica Sullivan, while Germany’s Sarah Kohler won bronze. The American led from the front, establishing clear water behind her after just a handful of laps and never showed any sign of fatigue. Ledecky bounced back from her 200m and 400m freestyle defeats to win the 1500m freestyle – her first gold medal of Tokyo 2020 – as the long-distance event made its debut on the women’s Olympic program. We came away with the bronze medal – stoked!” Neill later added: “We had to ride the wave of the Brits – I tried to do that, and executed a good backhand. In a nod to an iconic line from former rugby league player Matthew Johns, relay team member Thomas Neill described the bronze medal as “better than Lego”. The reigning world champions were unable to stay with a dominant Great Britain, but outswam their American rivals to win bronze, with the Russian Olympic Committee in second. The Australian men added bronze to the nation’s medal tally in the final race of the morning, finishing third in the 4x200m freestyle relay. Susie O’Neill – in Tokyo as deputy chef de mission for the Australian Olympic Committee – won gold in 1996, while Australian swimming legend Shane Gould won the race at the Munich 1972 Games. I’m very happy.”Īustralia has a historic pedigree in the women’s 200m freestyle. Honestly it’s not the time that I thought I could do this morning, but it’s the Olympics and there’s a lot of other things going on, so it’s just about winning here. “That was a tough one – I knew Siobhan really wanted this, I could tell by the way that she swam yesterday. Penny Oleksiak took bronze, with Ledecky back in fifth. She was then unstoppable in the last lap, shaking off Hong Kong’s Siobhan Haughey to break the Olympic record. The Australian moved up to fourth at the 100m and was third at the final turn. Titmus began slowly, touching fifth at the first turn, but moved up in the second lap as her rivals struggled to shake her. This is not just me winning – this is him winning as well.” But now that I haven’t got a swim tonight I kind of let it out a bit. I think it’s a bit of a skill trying to contain it and back up.
“That’s something I had to do really well after the 400m, because the 200m was right after. “I’m pretty good at containing my emotion,” said Titmus. Her coach Dean Boxall, who was thrust into the spotlight for his celebrations on Monday, was once again ecstatic – if somewhat less animated. Tears of joy flowed for Titmus as she stood on the top step of the podium for the second time at these Games.
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