David Popovici stormed to the Olympic gold within the males’s 200m freestyle, whereas Mollie O’Callaghan received 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 exhilarating finale.
Australia’s Mollie O’Callaghan held off her coaching companion – world file holder and defending Olympic champion Ariarne Titmus – to win the ladies’s 200m freestyle.
O’Callaghan stopped the clock in an Olympic file 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 file at Olympic trials, O’Callaghan turned the tables on her compatriot with a scorching ultimate lap.
She additionally foiled Titmus’s bid to turn into the primary swimmer to efficiently defend a 200m freestyle Olympic gold.
Teenager McIntosh baggage first Olympic gold
Canada’s Summer season McIntosh, 17, blew away the sphere to win the gold medal within the girls’s 400m particular person medley (IM), securing her second medal of the Paris Video games.
World file 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 file holder Thomas Ceccon of Italy made an exhilarating late surge to say the boys’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 Enviornment. 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 received at Tokyo 2021 underneath 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.
