Tatjana Schoenmaker won the women’s 200 metres breaststroke title in a world record to secure the first swimming gold medal at these Games for South Africa on a day when Emma McKeown added Australia’s sixth gold with an Olympic record in the women’s 100m freestyle.
China held off the United States to win the women’s 4x200 metres freestyle Olympic title in a world record time as both nations secured two gold medals here today.
China crowned its latest Olympic champions in diving as Games debutants Wang Zongyuan and Xie Siyi won the Tokyo 2020 men's synchronised three metres springboard final.
Ariarne Titmus, Yui Ohashi and Tom Dean all won their second gold medals of Tokyo 2020 after another intriguing session of swimming finals which saw Katie Ledecky become a six-time Olympic champion.
Teenagers Chen Yuxi and Zhang Jiaqi maintained China’s 100 per cent record in winning the women’s 10 metres synchronised platform title at the Olympic Games, after the divers secured a dominant victory here today.
Tom Dean and Duncan Scott gave Britain their first one-two finish in an Olympic swimming pool for 113 years after powering onto the men’s 200 metres freestyle podium at Tokyo 2020 here.
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has granted an additional marathon swimming quota place for Tokyo 2020, which will allow Kazakhstan's Vitaliy Khudyakov to compete in the 10 kilometres event.
Tom Daley and Matty Lee of Britain took advantage of a rare Chinese diving error to claim a superb gold in the men's synchronised 10 metre platform final at Tokyo 2020.
Australia’s Ariarne Titmus came from behind to snatch victory from five-time Olympic champion Katie Ledecky in an epic women’s 400 metres freestyle final, while Britain’s Adam Peaty retained his men’s 100m breaststroke title on a thrilling morning of swimming finals at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics here today.
Kazakhstan's Vitaliy Khudyakov has registered an appeal at the Court of Arbitration for Sport's (CAS) Ad Hoc Division here at Tokyo 2020, in a last-gasp bid to be allowed to race in the Olympic marathon swimming competitions.
Shi Tingmao and Wang Han made a dominant start to China's pursuit of perfection in diving at the delayed Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games as they produced an elegant and emphatic display to clinch gold in the women's synchronised three metres springboard event.
Tunisian teenager Ayoub Hafnaoui claimed a stunning gold on the opening morning of Olympic swimming finals at Tokyo 2020, as Yui Ohashi topped the podium for hosts Japan and Australia set a relay world record.
The Chinese diving team are red-hot favourites to claim the first gold medal of the diving competition at the delayed Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games tomorrow, when the country will bid for a 15th-straight major title in the women's synchronised three metres springboard event.
The International Swimming Federation (FINA) has opened a bidding process to choose an official pool partner for 2022 to 2025.
The newly-built, 15,000 capacity Aquatics Centre will not see any spectators but it seems certain to witness a succession of United States victories for Katie Ledecky and Caeleb Dressel.
Denver were awarded the 1976 Winter Olympic Games ahead of Sion in Switzerland, Tempere in Finland and Vancouver in Canada at the International Olympic Committee Session in 1970. But in a Colorado referendum in November 1972, voters rejected funding for the event. It is the only time a city has been awarded the Olympics but pulled out. The IOC then offered the Games to Whistler in Canada, but they too declined owing to a change of Government following elections. Salt Lake City offered to host the Games, but the IOC, still reeling from the Denver rejection, declined and selected Innsbruck, the 1964 host city, as a replacement.
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