Adam Peaty was unable to hitch the good Michael Phelps within the file books after struggling his first particular person defeat in an Olympics last within the males’s 100m breaststroke.
Peaty was in search of to change into simply the second male swimmer after Phelps to win the identical occasion at three successive Olympics however Italy’s Nicolo Martinenghi claimed a surprising upset victory from lane seven.
His time of 59.03 seconds was two hundredths of a second faster than Peaty, who touched the wall similtaneously America’s Nic Fink, that means they are going to share the silver medal.
Peaty’s silver was considered one of two medals gained by Crew GB on day two, as Kimberley Woods claimed a dramatic bronze within the ladies’s kayak last, whereas a dramatic comeback win from Andy Murray and Dan Evans within the males’s doubles as among the many different standout performances on an eventful Sunday.
Peaty and Woods add to Crew GB’s medal tally
Qin Haiyang was considered Peaty’s major rival however the Chinese language completed a disappointing seventh. Qin hit the entrance in Sunday’s showpiece and led at midway however Peaty – quickest within the semi-finals reeled him in, solely to be pipped by Tokyo 2020 bronze medallist Martinenghi.
“I did in addition to I may,” Peaty mentioned. “It isn’t concerning the finish aim, it is all concerning the course of and it does not matter what the time says on the rating, in my coronary heart I’ve already gained. I am not crying as a result of I’ve come second, I am crying as a result of it simply took a lot to get right here.
“It was extremely exhausting to win it as soon as and to win it once more. I am looking for new methods to do it. All the things that occurred thus far I feel has occurred for a cause and I am so completely satisfied that I can race the perfect on the planet and I got here joint-second.”
Earlier within the day, Woods was sitting in third place with only one competitor who may knock her off the Paris podium within the kayak last – defending champion Ricarda Funk, the quickest finisher from the afternoon’s semi-finals.
However the German made a mistake on the backside of the course to incur a 50-second penalty and end eleventh in 149.08 seconds, making certain Woods’ 98.94 was adequate for her first Olympic medal behind first-placed Australian Jessica Fox and Poland’s Klaudia Zwolinska.
“It feels completely unimaginable,” Woods mentioned. “I am unable to imagine how lengthy my journey’s been. Ricarda Funk coming down, I could not watch. I used to be on my knees, I used to be head in fingers not having the ability to watch and hastily I heard the group shout one thing and there was a mistake and I used to be like, ‘oh my god, I am unable to imagine I’ve achieved it.'”
Who else impressed for Crew GB?
Murray and Evans are by to the final 16 of the lads’s doubles after saving 5 match factors earlier than defeating Japan’s Taro Daniel and Kei Nishikori 2-6 7-6 (5) 11-9.
Within the males’s singles, Jack Draper beat Nishikori 6-1, 6-4, Evans defeated Moez Echargui 6-2 4-6 6-2, whereas fellow Brit Cameron Norrie pulled out by harm. Katie Boulter is out within the ladies’s singles after shedding 6-4 6-2 to Slovenia’s Anna Karolina Schmiedlova.
Within the pool, Duncan Scott and Matt Richards each certified for the lads’s 200m freestyle last, Angharad Evans certified for the ladies’s 100m breaststroke last and Ollie Morgan made the lads’s 100m backstroke last.
Crew GB’s eventing workforce are arrange for a profitable last day on Monday, sitting prime of the standings after the cross-country section. Laura Collett is second within the particular person standings, having picked up 0.8 of a time-fault throughout the cross-country to take a seat on 18.3.
Tom McEwen stays on his dressage rating of 25.8 and is sixth after a transparent run, whereas Ros Canter is at present twenty fourth after being awarded 15 penalties throughout the cross-country and an attraction being unsuccessful.
In inventive gymnastics, Becky Downie, Abi Martin, Georgia Mae-Fenton and Ruby Evans certified for Tuesday’s ladies’s workforce last after ending prime of their sub-division with a rating of 160.830.
Mae-Fenton and Kinsella additionally certified for the person all-around last, whereas Downie, who missed Tokyo because of the demise of her brother, certified for the uneven bars.
Elsewhere, Evie Richards completed fifth within the ladies’s cross-country mountain biking and 25 seconds off a medal, whereas medal hopeful Chelsie Giles misplaced to Brazil’s Larissa Pimenta within the judo ladies’s 52kg spherical of 16.
Rosie Eccles was defeated in controversial circumstance by Aneta Rygielska within the boxing ladies’s 66kg spherical of 32, with Pat Brown additionally making an early exit after misplaced 4-1 on factors in his heavyweight spherical of 16 battle towards Brazil’s Keno Machado.
The ladies’s hockey workforce misplaced their opening recreation 2-1 towards Spain, with Giselle Ansley scoring the facet’s solitary aim, as the lads’s workforce drew 2-2 with South Africa to proceed their unbeaten begin.
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