TOKYO, July 31 (Reuters) - Caeleb Dressel and Katie Ledecky added to the United States' gold medal haul at the Tokyo Olympics on Saturday while Australia's sensational run continued with Kaylee McKeown winning the 200m backstroke for their seventh gold in the pool.
Dressel stormed to the men's 100m
butterfly title with a world record time of 49.45 to pick up his second
individual gold of the Tokyo Games. He also won gold in the 4x100 freestyle
relay.
Ledecky won the 800m freestyle to add
to her 1,500 freestyle gold -- and also had the satisfaction of defeating her
Australian rival Ariarne Titmus for the first time in Tokyo.
Titmus had to settle for a silver
medal but there was plenty for Australia to celebrate with McKeown's perfectly
timed swim to complete the backstroke double.
World champion Dressel beat Hungary's
Kristof Milak, the gold medallist in the 200m fly, by 0.23 seconds.
The powerful American, who also won
gold in the 100m freestyle, was fastest out of the blocks and never looked in
danger, though Milak came back hard toclose the gap down the straight.
Dressel has a busy morning, racing in
the 50m freestyle semi-finals and is likely to swim in the final of the mixed
medley relay about 30 minutes after that.
Ledecky has been the dominant force
in the 800m free and she took control from the outset, increasing her lead over
Titmus from the 500m mark.
The American now has six individual career
Olympic gold medals, taking her past the record of Hungarian Krisztina
Egerszegi who had five.
McKeown turned up the pace on the
final lap to power past Kylie Masse after the Canadian held the lead for the
first 150.
The Australian won in a time of 2:04.68
with Masse 0.74 behind and McKeown's team mate Emily Seebohm taking the bronze
medal.
Australia's women have now picked up
six of the country's seven gold medals in the pool.
Reporting by Simon Evans; Editing by
Peter Rutherford
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