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Tokyo Olympics: Glover and Swann fourth in rowing final, James Wilby sixth in 200m breaststroke Last updated on Tokyo Olympic Games on the BBC Dates: 23 July-8 August Time in Tokyo: BST +8 Coverage: Watch live on BBC TV, BBC iPlayer, BBC Red Button and online; Listen on BBC Radio 5 Live, Sports Extra and Sounds; live text and video clips on BBC Sport website and app. Helen Glover and Polly Swann missed out on a fairytale finish to their story as they finished fourth in the women's pair on a frustrating morning for Team GB. It was fourth too for fellow British rowers Emily Craig and Imogen G...

Team GB secure a hat-trick of victories in the pool for the first time since 1908 28 July 2021 • 5:22pm Matthew Richards only turned 18 last December and so, when the spectre of pressure and Simone Biles’ shock withdrawal was raised, it was striking that he should speak up first among the triumphant 4x200m freestyle relay team. “I was thinking about this before the race last night,” he said. “There was a lot of pressure. It was [only] the second time ever I have raced the 4x200m freestyle. To do it that in the Olympic Games, when we are going in favourites by over two seconds, is te...

35 shares There was less good news however for Laura Stephens, who finished outside the places for the final. China's Zhang Yufei, Boglarka Kapas from Hungary and the former's compatriot Yu Liyan took the top three positions. The 22-year-old Team GB star however finished in sixth with 2:09:49, with Brianna Throssell of Australia and Japan's Suzuka Hasegawa finishing above her. Thomas's Team GB team-mate Laura Stephens missed out after finishing sixth in heat Yufei therefore finished well clear of the rest of the field with Stephens coming home five tenths of a second outside the time she nee...

Asimismo, logró romper un récord nacional de Michell Ramírez en los CCCAN 2021 (2:17:32). Julimar Ávila compitió en la semifinal B de los 200 metros mariposa y quedó ubicada en la última posición con un tiempo de 2:16:38. La hondureña estuvo en el carril número 8. Entre sus rivales estaban Ana Monteiro de Portugal, Helena Bach de Dinamarca, Svetlana Chimrova de ROC, Hali Flickinger de Estados Unidos, Regan Smith de Estados Unidos, Alys Thomas de Gran Bretaña y Defne Tacyildiz de Turquía. La victoria al final fue para la norteamericana Hali Flickinger con un tiempo de 2:06:23. El s...

Adam Peaty went 58.22 for a time over 100 breaststroke only he and Arno Kamminga have bettered at the British Swimming Glasgow Meet.