Emma McKeon of Australia celebrates winning the 50m freestyle race at the Tokyo Olympics.
David Goldman, ČTK / AP
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American Caeleb Dressel closed the games by winning the same tracks and helping the position relay to a world record of 3: 26.78, reaching five times for gold in Tokyo.
In total, he has seven medals from the Olympic Games with two successes from Rio de Janeiro and has always won the most valuable metal. His compatriot Robert Finke won second gold in Tokyo in the 1500-meter freestyle race.
American Caeleb Dressel celebrates Olympic gold after the 50m freestyle race.
Marko Djurica, Reuters
Twenty-seven-year-old McKeon set a new Olympic maximum of 23.81 at the age of 50, improving her time from Saturday’s semifinals by 19 hundredths of a second. She succeeded in Tokyo for the third time, because in Friday’s heat with 24.02 she surpassed the performance of the Dutch Ranomi Kromowidjojová from London in 2012 by three hundredths.
Dressel makes it four!
A fourth gold at #Tokyo2020 for #USA‘s Caeleb Dressel as he wins the men’s 50m freestyle with an Olympic Record time of 21.07.@fina1908 #Swimming @TeamUSA pic.twitter.com/mjnlsBZiQu
— Olympics (@Olympics) August 1, 2021
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World record holder Sarah Sjöström from Sweden lost 26 seconds to McKeon and received her first medal in her fourth discipline after her February elbow fracture complicated her preparations for the Olympics. The defender of the triumph from Rio Pernille Blume from Denmark caught up with the loss of another 14 hundredths for the bronze.
Emma McKeon collects her sixth medal of #Tokyo2020!
It’s a gold in the women’s 50m freestyle with an Olympic Record time of 23.81!@fina1908 #Swimming @AUSOlympicTeam pic.twitter.com/zXXCp4jCHD
— Olympics (@Olympics) August 1, 2021
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In the relay with Kaylee McKeown, Chelsea Hodges and Cate Campbell, McKeon also has an Olympic record. With a time of 3: 51.60, the Australian quartet improved the performance of the American swimmers from the London Games by 45 hundredths.
Olympic Record!#THE END wins gold in the the women’s 4x100m medley relay with a time of 3:51.60!@fina1908 #Swimming @AUSOlympicTeam pic.twitter.com/lW4jXIgTJv
— Olympics (@Olympics) August 1, 2021
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Today, the second Americans, Regan Smith, Lidya Jacoby, Torri Huske, and Abbey Weitzeil, also reached the then maximum, losing 13 hundredths. Kylie Masse, Sydney Pickrem, Margaret MacNeel and Penny Oleksiak, third in Canada, finished second.
Twenty-four-year-old Dressel also set an Olympic record at 21.07 at the age of 50, beating Brazilian César Ciel from Beijing by 23 hundredths, surpassing 30-year-old Frenchman Florento Manaudou by 48 hundredths, defending the silver medal of Rio on this track and triumphing in 2012 . The two-hundred-year-old Brazilian Bruno Fratus, who celebrated the premiere medal under five circles, was two hundredths behind.
At the end of the program, Dressel rejoiced with Ryan Murphy, Michael Andrew and Zach Apple. They improved by five tenths the current world maximum, which was reached by the American quartet Aaron Peirsol, Eric Shanteau, Michael Phelps and David Walters on August 2, 2009 at the World Championships in Rome.
World Record!#USA conquers gold in the men’s 4x100m medley relay with a time of 3:26.78.
It’s a 10th consecutive gold for #USA in this event!@fina1908 #Swimming @TeamUSA pic.twitter.com/O2hSETH5xT
— Olympics (@Olympics) August 1, 2021
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The United Kingdom, composed of Luke Greenbank, Adam Peaty, James Guy, Duncam Scott, lost 73 hundredths in a new European record, and the bronze Italian line-up of Thomas Ceccon, Nicolo Martinenghi, Federico Burdisso and Alessandro Miressi was more than two seconds behind the winners.
Another fabulous Finke finish!
A perfectly-timed last 50m from #USA swimmer Robert Finke secures gold in the men’s 1500m freestyle, adding to his 800m title.@fina1908 #Swimming @TeamUSA pic.twitter.com/Mw5BWU4q5Z
— Olympics (@Olympics) August 1, 2021
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Twenty-four-year-old Finke followed up on the longest track with a triumph from the octopus, which premiered under five circles. With a time of 14: 39.65, he overtook the Ukrainian Mychail Romanchuk, who took a bronze medal in the octopus. Thanks to the 3rd place, the German Florian Wellbrock reached the first Olympic precious metal of his career.
| XXXII. Tokyo Summer Olympics: |
| Swimming: |
| Men: |
| 50 m v. zp.: |
| 1. Dressel (USA) 21,07 |
| 2. Manaudou (Fr.) 21.55 |
| 3. Fratus (Braz.) 21.57 |
| 4. Andrew (USA) 21,60 |
| 5. Proud (Brit.) a Gkolomeev (Řec.) oba 21,72 |
| 7. Zazzeri (It.) 21.78, 8. De Boer (Niz.) 21.79 |
| 1500 v. Zp .: |
| 1. Finke (USA) 14: 39.65 |
| 2. Romanchuk (UKR) 14: 40.66 |
| 3. Wellbrock (DEU) 14: 40.91 |
| 4. Paltrinieri (It.) 14: 45,01 |
| 5. Jervis (Brit.) 14:55,48 |
| 6. Martynyčev (Rus.) 14:55,55 |
| 7. Auböck (Rak.) 15: 03.47 |
| 8. Frolov (Ukr.) 15: 04.26 |
| 4×100 m pol. z.: |
| 1. USA (Murphy, Andrew, Dressel, Apple) 3: 26.78 – world record |
| 2. Great Britain (Greenbank, Peaty, Guy, Scott) 3: 27.51 |
| 3. Italy (Ceccon, Martinenghi, Burdisso, Miressi) 3: 29,17 |
| 4. Russia 3: 29.22 |
| 5. Australia 3: 29.60 |
| 6. Japan 3: 29.91 |
| 7. Canada 3:32, 42 |
| China disqualified |
| Women: |
| 50 m v. zp.: |
| 1. McKeon (Austr.) 23.81 |
| 2. Sjöström (SWE) 24.07 |
| 3. Blumeová (Paste.) 24.21 |
| 4. Kromowidjojova (Niz.) 24:30, |
| 5. Wu Qing Feng (China) 24.32 |
| 5. Wasicková (Pol.) 24,32 |
| 7. C. Campbell (Austr.) 24.36 |
| 8. Weitzeilová (USA) 24,41 |
| 4×100 m pol. z.: |
| 1. Australia (McKeown, Hodges, McKeon, C. Campbell) 3: 51.60 |
| 2. USA (Smith, Jacoby, Huske, Weitzeil) 3: 51.73 |
| 3. Canada (Masse, Pickrem, MacNeel, Oleksiak) 3: 52.60 |
| 4. China 3: 54.13 |
| 5. Sweden 3: 54.27 |
| 6. Italy 3: 56.68 |
| 7. Russia 3: 56.93 |
| 8. Japan 3: 58.12 |
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