Swimming
Tokyo Olympics Swimming LIVE Day 4, July 27 - Kaylee McKeown and Lydia Jacoby shine along with Tom Dean and Evgeny Rylov with all four winning gold- Update, Scores, Live Blog
Kaylee McKeown and Lydia Jacoby steal the show in the morning session winning gold in 100m Backstroke and 100m Breaststroke respectively.
The morning session of Swimming on Day 4 at the Tokyo Olympics saw some brilliant and historic performances.
Kaylee McKeown won gold in the women's 100m Backstroke event, while 17-year-old Lydia Jacoby surprised everyone by winning the gold medal in the 100m Breaststroke event.
It was history for Great Britain, as Tom Dean and Scott Duncan won gold and silver respectively in the men's 200m Freestyle event. Russian, Evgeny Rylov, won the gold in the 100m Backstroke events by the finest of margins as fellow countryman Kliment Kolesnikov finished second. Both the athletes were competing under the Olympic flag.
After all the intense action in the morning session, we will be back soon for the evening session.
Stay tuned for live updates.
Live Updates
- 27 July 2021 1:41 AM GMT
Women's 200m Freestyle | Semifinal 2
Ledecky, Seemanova, and Wilson at the 100m mark.
- 27 July 2021 1:39 AM GMT
Women's 200m Freestyle | Semifinal 2
Is it Summer time or will Ledecky show her class again?
- 27 July 2021 1:37 AM GMT
Women's 200m Freestyle | Semifinal 1
Ariarne Titmus shows her class and made a massive effort in the final 50 to win the first semifinal.
Siobhan Bernadette Haughey and Yang Junxuan come second and third respectively.
- 27 July 2021 1:35 AM GMT
Women's 200m Freestyle | Semifinal 1
Siobhan Bernadette Haughey has made a brilliant start and is leading at the 100m mark!
Yet another surprise on the cards?
- 27 July 2021 1:24 AM GMT
Less than ten minutes to go
We'll be starting with the women's 200m Freestyle semifinals.
In the first semifinal, we'll see Ariarne Titmus, who won gold in 400m freestyle yesterday and there's also Allison Schmitt who has the current OR in the event.
- 27 July 2021 1:15 AM GMT
OLYMPIC RECORD TO BE BROKEN AGAIN?
The Olympic Record in the women's 100m Backstroke event has already been broken four times at the Tokyo Olympics and it is currently with United States' Regan Smith at 57.86s.
Kaylee Mckeown would be looking to break it a fifth time and the battle between the teenagers is the one we've been waiting to see for a while.
- 27 July 2021 1:05 AM GMT
WELCOME
I hope you're up and ready as it's Day 4 and we're all set for what could be yet any other day for new records to be set.
Live-action to start in 25 minutes. Stay tuned.