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Tom Dean won Olympic gold at the men’s 200-meter freestyle with a time of 1:44.22 at Tokyo Aquatics Centre, defeating fellow British swimmer and pre-race favorite Duncan Scott by just four-hundredths of a second.
Here’s a look at the full final results from the Tokyo Games:
Men’s 200-Meter Freestyle Final
1. Tom Dean (Great Britain): 1:44.22
2. Duncan Scott (Great Britain): 1:44.26
3. Fernando Scheffer (Brazil): 1:44.66
4. David Popovici (Romania): 1:44.68
5. Martin Malyutin (Russian Olympic Committee): 1:45.01
6. Kieran Smith (United States): 1:45.12
7. Sunwoo Hwang (South Korea): 1:45.26
8. Danas Rapsys (Lithuania): 1:45.78
Results via official Olympics website.
By virtue of the victory, Dean did something that no British men’s freestyle swimmer had done since 1908:
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Dean had won four gold medals in the European Championships but had never taken first on the world stage.
That is no longer the case, as the 21-year-old outlasted Scott and Brazil’s Fernando Scheffer, who took second and third respectively.
Scott now owns three Olympic silver medals. He took second at the 4×200 freestyle and 4×100 medley in the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio De Janeiro. The 24-year-old has also won three World Championship gold medals.
The 23-year-old Scheffer won his first-ever Olympic medal by virtue of earning bronze.
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