Australia’s star-studded 4x100m freestyle relay team stormed to victory, winning the gold medal in Rio.
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The 22-year-old joined with Emma McKeon and Cate and Bronte Campbell to hit the wall in 3min30.65sec, finishing more than a second ahead of the United States, with Canada third. They were always going to be hard to beat for any team.
The sisters brought Australia home against the USA to set a new world record of 3.30.65, having already broken the Olympic record in the heats.
The Australian Olympic Committee includes his medals in Australia’s tally; the International Olympic Committee still credits them to the US.
US finished second in 3:31.89 and Canada won the bronze medal in 3:32.89.
At the halfway point of the race it looked like Australia had work to do, with Bronte going into her leg a couple of hundredths of a second behind the Americans.
Earlier, Mack Horton won Australia’s first gold medal of these Games in the men’s 400m freestyle.
But with Cate coming up against American Katie Ledecky in her non-preferred distance over 100m. However, in 2009, the discovered that American swimmer Frank Gailey – who won three silvers and a bronze – was actually Australian.
China’s Sun Yang arrived in Rio looking to defend his gold medal in the 400 meter freestyle.
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What a day for Australia!
