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Australian swimming superstar Ariarne Titmus has gone back-to-back as the Olympic 400m freestyle gold medallist, putting paid to a challenge from Canadian teenager Summer McIntosh with American Katie Ledecky a distant third. Titmus went out hard and led from McIntosh early, with Ledecky trailing by more than a second at the halfway mark. That gap blew out to 3.37 seconds by the finish as Titmus touched the wall in 3:57.49, just under a second ahead of the impressive 17-year-old McIntosh.
The 23-year-old’s powerhouse 400m victory ensures she will be favoured to do the Tokyo-Paris double in the 200m freestyle. Australia v Korea upstaged by German star Elijah Winnington turned it around in the last 50m to win 400m freestyle silver behind gold medallist Luke Maertens of Germany. Winnington and fellow Aussie Sam Short were locked in a battle with long-time leader Maertens and South Korea’s Kim Woo-min, all ahead of the world record after 300m.
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