Another busy day at the pool for swimming events in Tokyo

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South Africa’s Tatjana Schoenmaker set the primary particular person swimming world document on the Tokyo Olympics on Friday.On one other busy day on the pool, Evgeny Rylov accomplished a backstroke double and Emma McKeon gave the mighty Aussie girls one other gold.Schoenmaker, a 24-year-old South African, received the ladies’s 200-meter breaststroke with a time of two minutes, 18.95 seconds, breaking the mark of two:19.11 set by Denmark’s Rikke Moller Pedersen on the 2013 world championships in Barcelona.It was the third world document on the Tokyo Aquatics Centre, with the primary two coming in girls’s relays.Russia’s Rylov completely snuffed out America’s dominance within the backstroke, including the 200 title to his victory within the 100 again.Rylov received with an Olympic-record time of 1:53.29, whereas American Ryan Murphy wound up with the silver (1:54.15).Murphy was a double-gold medalist on the 2016 Rio Olympics, the place he prolonged an American successful streak that started on the 1996 Atlanta Video games.The U.S. received 12 straight males’s backstroke occasions over six Olympics, however that streak ended with Rylov’s victory within the 100. He made it 2-for-2 within the longer race, whereas Murphy settled for bronze and silver within the two occasions.Britain’s Luke Greenbank grabbed the 200 bronze in 1:54.72.McKeon touched first within the 100 freestyle with an Olympic-record time of 51.96, turning into solely the second girl to interrupt 52 seconds within the dash.Hong Kong’s Siobhan Haughey earned the silver in 52.27, whereas one other Aussie, Cate Campbell, took the bronze in 52.52. American Abbey Weitzeil was final within the eight-woman discipline.The Australians now have received 4 particular person girls’s occasions on the Tokyo Aquatics Centre, along with setting a world document in a 4×100 free relay that included each McKeon and Campbell.The Individuals claimed the opposite two medals behind Schoenmaker.Lilly King set a blistering tempo early within the race and held on for a silver in 2:19.92, including to her bronze within the 100 breast. Annie Lazor nabbed the bronze in 2:20.84.Caeleb Dressel set one other Olympic document within the semifinals of the 100 butterfly.Minutes after Hungary’s Kristof Milak took down the mark within the first semifinal warmth, Dressel went even quicker with a time of 49.71 seconds within the second warmth.It was the third-fastest time in historical past and left Milak because the second-fastest qualifier at 50.31.Within the preliminaries, Dressel tied the previous Olympic document of fifty.39 set by Singapore’s Joseph Education to win gold on the 2016 Rio Video games.Dressel will likely be an enormous favourite in Saturday morning’s closing, although he may get pushed by Milak. The Hungarian already received the 200 fly with a dominating victory.Dressel picked up the primary particular person gold medal of his profession with a win within the 100 freestyle.

South Africa’s Tatjana Schoenmaker set the primary particular person swimming world document on the Tokyo Olympics on Friday.

On one other busy day on the pool, Evgeny Rylov accomplished a backstroke double and Emma McKeon gave the mighty Aussie girls one other gold.

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Schoenmaker, a 24-year-old South African, won the women’s 200-meter breaststroke with a time of two minutes, 18.95 seconds, breaking the mark of two:19.11 set by Denmark’s Rikke Moller Pedersen on the 2013 world championships in Barcelona.

It was the third world document on the Tokyo Aquatics Centre, with the primary two coming in girls’s relays.

Russia’s Rylov completely snuffed out America’s dominance within the backstroke, including the 200 title to his victory within the 100 again.

Rylov received with an Olympic-record time of 1:53.29, whereas American Ryan Murphy wound up with the silver (1:54.15).

Murphy was a double-gold medalist on the 2016 Rio Olympics, the place he prolonged an American successful streak that started on the 1996 Atlanta Video games.

The U.S. received 12 straight males’s backstroke occasions over six Olympics, however that streak ended with Rylov’s victory within the 100. He made it 2-for-2 within the longer race, whereas Murphy settled for bronze and silver within the two occasions.

Britain’s Luke Greenbank grabbed the 200 bronze in 1:54.72.

McKeon touched first within the 100 freestyle with an Olympic-record time of 51.96, turning into solely the second girl to interrupt 52 seconds within the dash.

Hong Kong’s Siobhan Haughey earned the silver in 52.27, whereas one other Aussie, Cate Campbell, took the bronze in 52.52. American Abbey Weitzeil was final within the eight-woman discipline.

The Australians now have received 4 particular person girls’s occasions on the Tokyo Aquatics Centre, along with setting a world document in a 4×100 free relay that included each McKeon and Campbell.

The Americans claimed the opposite two medals behind Schoenmaker.

Lilly King set a blistering tempo early within the race and held on for a silver in 2:19.92, including to her bronze within the 100 breast. Annie Lazor nabbed the bronze in 2:20.84.

Caeleb Dressel set one other Olympic document within the semifinals of the 100 butterfly.

Minutes after Hungary’s Kristof Milak took down the mark within the first semifinal warmth, Dressel went even quicker with a time of 49.71 seconds within the second warmth.

It was the third-fastest time in historical past and left Milak because the second-fastest qualifier at 50.31.

Within the preliminaries, Dressel tied the previous Olympic document of fifty.39 set by Singapore’s Joseph Education to win gold on the 2016 Rio Video games.

Dressel will likely be an enormous favourite in Saturday morning’s closing, although he may get pushed by Milak. The Hungarian already received the 200 fly with a dominating victory.

Dressel picked up the primary particular person gold medal of his profession with a win within the 100 freestyle.

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