BLOODY OARSOME‼🥇🥇 Two Coxless Four finals ✅ Two gold medals ✅ It's an absolute dream start to rowing's four-final blitz for Australia 💚💚💛💛 LIVE coverage: Tokyo2020 Olympics
to kick off a golden morning on the water for the country’s rowers, while the men’s quad won bronze.
They held the lead all the way until the 1500m mark, knowing the Netherlands are strong finishers in this event. The team of Alex Purnell, Spencer Turrin, Jack Hargreaves and Alex Hill brought the gold medal home for the first time in two decades - set a new Olympic record to boot with a time of 5:42.76.Like the women, the Aussies led the way from the outset, pulling into a boat-length lead ahead of the British by the 1000m mark.
The Netherlands were too strong and claimed the gold with a new world record as Great Britain stormed home with a very strong final 100m to pip the Aussies to the silver. As those around them panicked, Australia stayed calm and powered home to nick the bronze medal, behind China and Poland.Aussie ‘Terminator’ Ariane Titmus has claimed a second gold medal of the Tokyo OlympicsTitmus came from well back to clock an Olympic record time of 1:53.50 and finish over the top of Hong Kong’s Siobhan Haughey and Canadian Penny Oleksiak .
Great Britain won gold in a stunning way, falling just short of the world record set by Michael Phelps’ all-conquering American team.Amidst all the madness, Australia has runners and riders in the time trials in both the men’s and the women’s events.And Brown ended up finishing fourth, just shy of the bronze medal, while Gigante finished 11th.
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