David Popovici stormed to the Olympic gold in the guys’s 200m freestyle, while Mollie O’Callaghan won the females’s swimming occasion.
Published On 29 Jul 2024
Teenager David Popovici powered to the Olympic gold in the guys’s 200m freestyle, endingupbeing the veryfirst swimmer to win gold for Romania.
The 19-year-old Popovici, who burst onto the scene by winning the 100m-200m freestyle double at the 2022 world champions, touched in 1 minute and 44.72secs, edging Great Britain’s Matthew Richards (1: 44.74) by a fingertip.
Team USA’s Luke Hobson (1: 44.79) took bronze in a frenzied surface.
It was Popovici’s veryfirst Olympic medal after missingouton out in Tokyo 2020, where he came 4th. He had to work difficult for the win on Monday with Germany’s Lukas Maertens, who declared the 400m gold medal on Saturday, opening up a lead in the opening 150m of the race.
But Popovici completed highly, clawing back his competitors to touch veryfirst in a thrilling ending.
Australia’s Mollie O’Callaghan held off her training partner – world record holder and safeguarding Olympic champ Ariarne Titmus – to win the ladies’s 200m freestyle.
O’Callaghan stopped the clock in an Olympic record 1: 53.27, 0.54 seconds ahead of Titmus, with Hong Kong’s Siobhan Haughey taking bronze.
Only weeks after Titmus swiped her 200m freestyle world record at Olympic trials, O’Callaghan turned the tables on her compatriot with a sizzling last lap.
She likewise foiled Titmus’s quote to endedupbeing the veryfirst swimmer to effectively safeguard a 200m freestyle Olympic gold.
Teenager McIntosh bags veryfirst Olympic gold
Canada’s Summer McIntosh, 17, blew away the field to win the gold medal in the ladies’s 400m person collection (IM), protecting her 2nd medal of the Paris Games.
World record holder McIntosh touched the wall in 4 minutes and 27.71 seconds – a tremendous 5.69 seconds ahead of silver medallist Katie Grimes. Emma Weyant, Grimes’s USA colleague, took the bronze medal.
McIntosh’s accomplishment came 2 days after she took Olympic silver behind Titmus in the 400m freestyle on Saturday.
Ceccon wins backstroke gold, Smith takes breaststroke title
World record holder Thomas Ceccon of Italy made a thrilling late rise to claim the males’s 100m backstroke gold.
The previous world champ touched the wall in precisely 52 seconds, ed