'Stroke for stroke': World champion Ariarne Titmus has defeated five-time gold medallist Katie Ledecky in the women's 400m freestyle, winning gold for Australia. Follow our live blog olympics2021 tokyo2020 tokyo2020olympics tokyo2021 olympicgames
How Ariarne Titmus chased down Katie Ledecky to win gold at Tokyo Olympics.The American superstar was gracious in her praise for Ariarne Titmus after their thrilling clash in the 400m freestyle final.Ariarne Titmus and Katie Ledecky after their thrilling race.“It was certainly a tough race and I delivered. I couldn’t do much better than that. A tremendous race. A lot of fun. I can’t be too disappointed. It was my second best swim ever [over 400m freestyle].
If he swims anywhere near that level in the individual 100m freestyle final, he will go mighty close to claiming back-to-back golds.Aussie surfer Sally Fitzgibbons is into the quarter-finals after defeating France’s Pauline Ado in round three of the women’s event. McKeown finished second in the second semi-final with a time of 58.11 - 0.02 seconds away from first. That’s the third fastest time of the semi-finals.Seebohm finished third with 58.59. She qualified with the sixth fastest time.
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