David Popovici stormed to the Olympic gold within the males’s 200m freestyle, whereas Mollie O’Callaghan gained the ladies’s swimming occasion.
Teenager David Popovici powered to the Olympic gold within the males’s 200m freestyle, changing into the primary swimmer to win gold for Romania.
The 19-year-old Popovici, who burst onto the scene by successful the 100m-200m freestyle double on the 2022 world championships, touched in 1 minute and 44.72secs, edging Nice Britain’s Matthew Richards (1:44.74) by a fingertip.
Crew USA’s Luke Hobson (1:44.79) took bronze in a frantic end.
It was Popovici’s first Olympic medal after lacking out in Tokyo 2020, the place he got here fourth. He needed to work exhausting for the win on Monday with Germany’s Lukas Maertens, who claimed the 400m gold medal on Saturday, opening up a lead within the opening 150m of the race.
However Popovici completed strongly, clawing again his rivals to the touch first in an exciting finale.
Australia’s Mollie O’Callaghan held off her coaching associate – world document holder and defending Olympic champion Ariarne Titmus – to win the ladies’s 200m freestyle.
O’Callaghan stopped the clock in an Olympic document 1:53.27, 0.54 seconds forward of Titmus, with Hong Kong’s Siobhan Haughey taking bronze.
Solely weeks after Titmus swiped her 200m freestyle world document at Olympic trials, O’Callaghan turned the tables on her compatriot with a scorching last lap.
She additionally foiled Titmus’s bid to develop into the primary swimmer to efficiently defend a 200m freestyle Olympic gold.
Teenager McIntosh luggage first Olympic gold
Canada’s Summer time McIntosh, 17, blew away the sphere to win the gold medal within the ladies’s 400m particular person medley (IM), securing her second medal of the Paris Video games.
World document holder McIntosh touched the wall in 4 minutes and 27.71 seconds – a whopping 5.69 seconds forward of silver medallist Katie Grimes. Emma Weyant, Grimes’s USA teammate, took the bronze medal.
McIntosh’s triumph got here two days after she took Olympic silver behind Titmus within the 400m freestyle on Saturday.
Ceccon wins backstroke gold, Smith takes breaststroke title
World document holder Thomas Ceccon of Italy made an exciting late surge to assert the lads’s 100m backstroke gold.
The previous world champion touched the wall in precisely 52 seconds, edging China’s silver medallist Xu Jiayu by 0.32 of a second at La Protection Area. Crew USA’s Ryan Murphy took bronze.
Tatjana Smith took South Africa’s first gold of the Paris Olympics and added the 100m breaststroke title to the 200m she gained at Tokyo 2021 below her maiden title of Schoenmaker.
China’s world champion Tang Qianting took the silver medal and Eire’s Mona McSharry shed tears of pleasure and amazement after a unprecedented three-way battle for bronze.
