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Host nation Japan won 27 gold medals, surpassing its gold medal tally of 16 at both the 1964 and 2004 summer editions. [9] Athletes from that nation also won 58 medals overall, which eclipsed its record of 41 overall medals won at the previous Summer Olympics. [10] American swimmer Caeleb Dressel won the most gold medals at the Games with five ...
[18] [19] The men's national field hockey team won the bronze medal to record their first Olympic medal since 1980. [20] Lovlina Borgohain won a bronze in the women's welterweight category in boxing, thereby becoming only the third Indian to win a boxing medal at the Games after Vijender Singh in 2008 and Mary Kom in 2012. [21]
Swimming at the 2020 Olympics featured a total of 37 events (18 each for men and women and 1 mixed event), including two 10 km open-water marathons. This was a slight increase from the 34 events contested in the previous Olympic Games. The following events were contested (all pool events are long course, and distances are in meters unless stated):
not included in the Olympic program: 1964 Tokyo details: Jed Graef United States: 2:10.3 WR: Gary Dilley United States: 2:10.5 Bob Bennett United States: 2:13.1 1968 Mexico City details: Roland Matthes East Germany: 2:09.6 OR: Mitch Ivey United States: 2:10.6 Jack Horsley United States: 2:10.9 1972 Munich details: Roland Matthes East Germany: 2 ...
Michael Phelps' 23 Olympic swimming gold medals is a record that may never be beaten but the Tokyo pool could still see the world's best push the boundaries of human performance to new heights.
The 2020 Summer Olympics were held in Japan from 23 July to 8 August 2021 after being postponed a year by the COVID-19 pandemic. In total, 2,402 medals were won by 2,175 athletes in 339 events at the Games. [1]
The Tokyo Games were the Olympics staged a year later than planned because of a pandemic, where the athletes and organizers said it was a privilege just to play and uplift the world through sport.
Lydia Jacoby reacts after winning gold in the 100m breaststroke during the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games. ... the water after only a week off from swimming post-Tokyo. By the fall of 2021, she felt ...