![]() Jess Learmonth led Britain out, while Georgia Taylor-Brown and anchor leg Yee, who both won silver in the individual events, completed the impressive all-round display. There will also be three British women in the 800m final after Keely Hodgkinson, Alex Bell and Jemma Reekie all qualified for the event.Įlsewhere, Alex Yee delivered a superb final leg as Great Britain won the inaugural Olympic Games triathlon mixed relay gold medal on Saturday. Jamaica took a sweep of the medals, with Elaine Thompson-Herah breaking the Olympic record to win gold. Great Britain's Daryll Neita placed eighth in the 100m final after she secured a qualifying spot in the third semifinal. ![]() Exclusive: Asher-Smith on Olympic prep, racism & body imageĪsher-Smith improved on the 11.07 seconds she recorded in the heats on Friday but it wasn't enough to secure a top eight finish and progress to the final.Īfter the race, She revealed to the BBC that she tore her hamstring "pretty bad" during the Olympic trials in June, which saw her miss meets at both Stockholm and Gateshead. In track and field, Team GB star Dina Asher-Smith failed to qualify for the women's 100-meter final on Saturday and immediately pulled out of the 200m, revealing a hamstring injury in the build up to Tokyo 2020. "To do this with one of my best mates in Adam and the two girls, we're all northerners - it's amazing!" "I was quite upset - I cried again, obviously - but it has paid off and it was worth it to go and do that time. Gold medal, world record, you can't beat that, especially when it's for the team. "It's my fastest split ever by 0.5 seconds. Guy withdrew from his individual butterfly event to focus on the relay and was happy the risk paid off. Peaty handed over to Guy, who catapulted Britain into the lead with a thrilling butterfly leg on which he moved past China's gold medallist Zhang Yufei to give Hopkin enough space to fend off a late challenge from Australia's 100m freestyle champion Emma KcKeon and China's Yang Junxuan, a member of the gold medal-winning women's 4x200m freestyle relay. ![]() Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games Schedule | Medal Trackerīritain, the fastest qualifiers, had European champion Kathleen Dawson swim the backstroke leg two-time reigning Olympic champion and world-record holder Adam Peaty on breaststroke James Guy, a member of the Olympic gold medal-winning 4×200m freestyle relay team on butterfly and 100m freestyle Olympic finalist Anna Hopkin, replacing Freya Anderson from qualifying, on the anchor leg.ĭawson was sixth after the backstroke leg, as the men of the United States, Italy and China surged ahead, but Peaty slashed the deficit and pulled Britain into fourth after the breaststroke. Great Britain won the gold medal in the inaugural mixed 4x100 metre medley relay in a world-record time of 3 min 37.58 sec at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.īritain's total of four swimming golds in Tokyo is their best return in 113 years. ![]() Olympics: Team GB swimmers break world record to win mixed medley gold medal, Dina Asher-Smith pulls out of 200m with injury You have reached a degraded version of because you're using an unsupported version of Internet Explorer.įor a complete experience, please upgrade or use a supported browser
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