Swimming at Tokyo Olympics: Team USA take Gold in Men’s 4x100m Freestyle Relay; Canada’s Margaret MacNeil clinches Gold in Nail biting Finish

Swimming at Tokyo Olympics: Team USA take Gold in Men’s 4x100m Freestyle Relay; Canada’s Margaret MacNeil clinches Gold in Nail biting Finish

Swimming at Tokyo Olympics, USA Team

In swimming at Tokyo Olympics, the men’s 4x100m freestyle relay got off to an early start on day 4. The field was strong, with United States starting in the 4th lane, Italy taking the fifth lane, Australia taking the third lane and Canada taking the first lane.

The United States won the relay comfortably, winning with a time of 3:08.97s, more than a second ahead of second place finishers Italy. This is USA’s back to back medal in the men’s 4x100m relay, repeating the same feat since the Rio Olympics. The USA was lead by the experience Caeleb Dressel, and Blake Pieroni, Bowen Becker and Zach Apple rounded off the winning crew. Zach had the fastest split of the team, with a spectacular time of 46.69s.

The Italian team was strong, with Alessandro Miressi, Thomas Ceccon, Lorenzo Zazzeri and Manuel Frigo clinching silver with a time of 3:10:11s. The Australian Team of Matthew Temple, Zac Inceri, Alexander Graham and Kyle Chalmers managed to win bronze with a time of 3:10:22s.

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Canada’s Margaret MacNeil Wins gold in the women’s 100m Butterfly event

Swimming at Tokyo Olympics, Margaret MacNeil
Swimming at Tokyo Olympics, Margaret MacNeil

In an absolutely nail biting finish, Canada’s Margaret MacNeil clinched the gold medal in the women’s 100m butterfly. China’s Yufei Zhang took the silver medal, while Australia’s Emma McKeon took home the bronze.

USA’s young Torri Huske missed out by a whisker, finishing fourth. The race was neck and neck at the 50m mark, with Yufei leading and Huske close at her heels. It was MacNeil who forged ahead right at the very end, touching the wall with a time of 55.59s. Second, Third and fourth place were photo finishes, and it was later confirmed that Yufei had won silver with a time of 55.64s.

The closest finish was between McKeon and Huske, as McKeon hung on to the bronze medal by 0.01 seconds, finishing with a time of 55.73s. Huske just missed out, finishing 55.74s.

Also read: Swimming at Tokyo Olympics: Australia Breaks Women’s 4x100m Freestyle Relay World Record and Olympic Record