Tom Dean and Duncan Scott claim historic one-two finish for Team GB in men's 200m freestyle final Plus, how Dean twice recovered from severe Covid to join Phelps, Spitz and Thorpe as Olympic 200m freestyle champion 27 July 2021 • 5:19am Team GB have secured their first ever one-two finish in an Olympic swimming event for 113 years, with Tom Dean beating Tokyo flat-mate Duncan Scott to gold by 0.04 sec in a dramatic finale to the men’s 200m freestyle. After the excitement of Magic Monday, the gold rush continued early on Tuesday morning with the swimmers adding their second gold medal of the Games to take Team GB’s tally to four after only four days of Olympic competition. It makes it the best ever start to a summer Olympics.