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In the 200-meter breaststroke Wednesday, Lilly King qualified for her last individual Olympic final and Josh Matheny finished seventh at Paris La Defense Arena. King was sixth out of two ...
King, a 27-year-old American star, swam the 100-meter breaststroke in 1:05.60 seconds, a bit off South African Tatjana Smith's gold medal-winning pace (1:05.28).
King is the second American to make three Olympic teams in the 100 breaststroke. The other is Amanda Beard, who swam breaststroke at four Olympics (1996-2000-2004-2008).
The men's 200 metre breaststroke event at the 2020 Summer Olympics was held from 27 to 29 July 2021 at the Tokyo Aquatics Centre. [1] It was the event's twenty-sixth consecutive appearance, having been held at every edition since 1908.
With 15 metres to go, King launched a mighty surge to pass Yefimova by more than half a second for the gold medal with a time of 1:04.93. King's time also shaved 0.24 seconds off the Olympic record set by Australia's four-time Olympian Leisel Jones in Beijing in 2008. [3] [4] Yefimova finished with a silver in 1:05.50.
This close from Lilly King. 🔥 She will become the first U.S. swimmer to swim the 100m and 200m breaststroke in three straight Olympics. 📺 NBC & @peacock | #SwimTrials24 pic.twitter.com ...
Lydia Alice Jacoby OLY (born February 29, 2004) is an American professional swimmer. She was the first Alaskan to qualify for an Olympic Games in swimming, competing at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo in 2021, where she won the gold medal in the 100-meter breaststroke with a time of 1:04.95, which was the fastest time ever achieved by a female American swimmer in the event in the 17–18 age ...
Kate Douglass, an understated star from the University of Virginia, touched in 2:19.24, setting an American record and clinching Team USA's fourth swimming gold of these Games.