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U.S. Swimming Tops the Medal Table, but With Fewer Golds

U.S. Swimming Tops the Medal Table, but With Fewer Golds

U.S. Swimming Tops the Medal Table, but With Fewer Golds
Aug 01, 2021 1 min, 25 secs

TOKYO—In an Olympic swim meet that featured a reversed schedule, no fans and few world records, Team USA will again return home with more medals than anyone else.

The American swimmers won 30 medals in Tokyo, three fewer than their historic 33-medal haul in Rio despite three new events being added to the racing program for these Games.

He’ll return stateside with five gold medals, becoming the third American swimmer to collect gold medals in three individual events during a single Olympics.

Dressel broke world records in the 100-meter butterfly and 4×100 medley relay and set new Olympic records in the sprint freestyle races he won, the 50 and 100.

Team USA still has plenty of depth on the women’s side; there were six events in which the U.S.

That was clear in the relay events, where the U.S.

Team USA also missed the podium entirely in a relay event for the first time in Olympics history—not once, but twice.

And in the Olympic debut of the 4×100 mixed medley relay, which features two men and two women swimming all four strokes, the U.S.

She swam in the preliminary heats of the mixed medley relay that missed the podium and finished her meet with a silver medal in the women’s 4×100 medley relay.

“There is no disappointment and no shame with walking away from any event as an Olympic bronze medalist or an Olympic silver medalist,” said Dave Durden, head coach of the U.S.

men’s Olympic swim team.

Women’s Olympic team coach Greg Meehan said that bodes well for Paris 2024, as athletes will have a better sense of how to manage the pressure of competing under the Olympics microscope.

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