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A hugely exciting day of swimming despite just the one bronze for the Aussies.
Three new world record times across the events including one of the most incredibly dominant performances in swimming history.
USA’s Katie Ledecky absolutely creamed her own record mark by nearly two seconds, beating the yellow WR line to the wall bt a full body length on her way to Gold.
Britain’s Adam Peaty continues his dominance over the 100m breaststroke, picking up gold while now holding all of the top seven fastest times in history for the event.
» Full report, results from Day 2 of the swimming at Olympics
Sarah Sjostrom rounds out the record breaking for the day with her first ever Olympic medal. The Swede just beat the yellow line to the wall for gold in the 100m butterfly.
USA continues its dominance in the men’s 4×100 as Michael Phelps picks up an incredible 19th Olympic gold medal and 23rd medal overall in his fifth games.
The Aussie men got home in third to take Bronze in the relay for what was the green and golds only medal in the pool for the day.
Women’s 100m butterfly final RESULTS:
The young Canadian Penny Oleksiak had a huge second 50 to sweep through for silver with American Dana Vollmer rounding out the medals.
GOLD – Sarah Sjostrom
SILVER – Penny Oleksiak
BRONZE – Dana Vollmer
Men’s 200m freestyle semi-final 1 RESULTS
1 – Conor Dwyer
2 – Paul Beidermann
3 – James Guy
Men’s 200m freestyle semi-final 2 RESULTS
A near perfect race from Sun Yang and he did it comfortably in the end.
1 – Sun Yang
2 – Kosuke Hagino
3 – Alensandr Krasnykh
Women’s 100m breaststroke semi-final 1 RESULTS
1 -Yulia Efimova
2 – Ruta Meilutyte
3 – Jennie Johansson
Women’s 100m breaststroke semi-final 2 RESULTS
1 – Lilly King (USA)
2 – Shi Jinglin (CHI)
3 – Katie Meili (USA)
Men’s 100m breaststroke final results: NEW WORLD RECORD!!
Adam Peaty holds all of the seven fastest times in this event… that is the domination of Adam Peaty as he tops the world record he only set in the heats of this same event.
Cameron Van der Burgh comes into second place, capitalising on a strong first lap to keep his podium finish as the rest of the field advanced on him late.
Women’s 400m freestyle final: NEW WORLD RECORD!!
GOLD – Katie Ledecky (USA)
SILVER – Jazmin Carlin (GB)
BRONZE – Leah Smith (USA)
Men’s 100m backstroke semi-final 1 RESULTS
1 – Ryan Murphy (USA)
2 – Xu Jaiyu (CHN)
3 – Evgeny Rylov (RUS)
Men’s 100m backstroke semi-final 2 RESULTS
1 – David Plummer
2 – Mitch Larkin
3 – Camille Lacourt
Women’s 100m backstroke semi-final 1 RESULTS
1 – Madison Wilson
2 – Mie Nielsen
3 – Emily Seebohm
Women’s 100m backstroke semi-final 2 RESULTS
1 – Kathleen Baker
2 – Katinka Hosszu
3 – Fu Yuanhui
Men’s 4×100 freestyle relay final RESULTS
GOLD – USA
SILVER – France
BRONZE – Australia
After a hugely successful first day in the pool that saw two golds and an early lead in the medal tally, the Aussie swim team will back it up the medal hunt on a big second day in the Olympic Games swimming meet.
Today’s line-up will see the men’s 4×100 relay team shoot for an upset win, while Cameron McEvoy backs it up with the 200m freestyle semis.
The full event list is:
11:03am – Women’s 100m butterfly final
11:11am – Men’s 200m freestyle semi-final 1
11:20am – Men’s 200m freestyle semi-final 2
11:29am – Women’s 100m breaststroke semi-final 1
11:37am – Women’s 100m breaststroke semi-final 2
11:53am – Men’s 100m breaststroke final
12:01pm – Women’s 400m freestyle final
12:12pm – Men’s 100m backstroke semi-final 1
12:20pm – Men’s 100m backstroke semi-final 2
12:36pm – Women’s 100m backstroke semi-final 1
12:44pm – Women’s 100m backstroke semi-final 2
12:52pm – Men’s 4x100m freestyle relay final