Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
U.S. swimmer Lilly King stormed home on the final lap in a match against Russia's Yuliya Yefimova to capture the sprint breaststroke title for the first time since Megan Quann topped the podium in 2000. 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.
Tandem Molly Hannis and Lilly King, the newly-crowned Olympic champion of the 100 m breaststroke, had put their medal hunt to an end in this event, as neither of them advanced to the final. [8] Other notable swimmers missed the top eight roster, featuring Japan's Kanako Watanabe , the 2015 world champion, and Turkey's Viktoriya Zeynep Güneş ...
Interior view of the Olympic Aquatics Stadium, the temporary venue used for swimming at the 2016 Summer Olympics. Similar to the program's format in 2012, swimming features a total of 34 events (17 each for men and women), including two 10 km open-water marathons. The following events were contested (all pool events are long course, and ...
International Olympic Committee results database; Wallechinsky, David (2000). The complete book of the Summer Olympics – Sydney 2000 edition. New York: Overlook Press. ISBN 1-58567-033-2. HistoFINA Swimming Medallists And Statistics At Olympic Games, January 31, 2015
Fiona Doyle (born 4 October 1991) is an Irish swimmer.She represented Ireland in the 2016 Rio Olympics swimming in the 100M and 200M Breaststroke. In 2013, she competed in the 100m event at the World Aquatics Championships in Barcelona where she finished eleventh overall. [1]
7 August 2016: Swimming – Men's 100 metre breaststroke: Adam Peaty Great Britain: Set a world record time of 57.13 in the final [3] 7 August 2016: Swimming – Women's 100 metre butterfly: Sarah Sjöström Sweden: Set a world record time of 55.48 in the final: 7 August 2016: Swimming – Women's 400 metre freestyle: Katie Ledecky United States
The track star was even dubbed the Anna Kournikova of the Rio Olympics. ... place with a time of 13.26 seconds in the first round of the women's 100-meter hurdles. ... from the 2016 Olympics: Show ...
The women's 4 × 100 metre medley relay event at the 2016 Summer Olympics took place on 12–13 August at the Olympic Aquatics Stadium in Rio de Janeiro. By winning gold, the U.S. women brought home America's 1000th gold medal in the nation's Summer Olympics history.