Titmus leads at every turn to win by almost a second and beat rivals in 400m freestyle battle for the ages in Paris
. Since 2018, Australian middle-distance swim star Ariarne Titmus has not lost a 400m freestyle final at an international race.
Titmus’s win continued a strong start for Australia, after Elijah Winnington won silver in the men’s 400m freestyle in what was a frenetic, open affair in the first medal race of the meet. It was a moment of redemption for the 24-year-old, who competed in Tokyo with high hopes only to finish an unexpected seventh in the final. Winnington closed strongly to finish half a second down on Germany’s Lukas Märtens; Winnington’s compatriot Sam Short finished fourth.
“I was saying to my mate Jack before coming to this meet, when people were saying they were really nervous,” he continued. “I said: ‘Well I’ve gone to the Olympics and experienced possibly the worst thing that could ever happen and I’m still here, I’m still swimming fast and I’m still having fun. I want to go out tonight and have fun and see what happens. If that’s a good result, that’s a good result.
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