200m Freestyle

Tokyo Olympics: USA's Katie Ledecky shrugged off disappointment in the 200m freestyle by winning the gruelling 1500m just 75 minutes later to win gold in Tokyo.

Tokyo Olympics: Britain's Tom Dean came back from two bouts of Covid to claim Olympic gold in the 200m freestyle in Tokyo.

Tokyo Games: With the historic sprint, swimmer Sajan Prakash rewrote his own national record of 1:56.96s that he had set last week at the Belgrade Trophy swimming competition.

Swimming: Federica Pellegrini set her sights on a fifth Olympic Games as she won a 200m freestyle silver medal at the European Championships.

Katie Ledecky smashed the world record in the 800m freestyle as she secured the gold medal in the 2016 Rio Olympics, in addition to the 200m, 400m and 4X200m relay gold

Katie Ledecky claimed her third gold as the United States of America won the women's 4X200m freestyle relay in the 2016 Rio Olympics.

Kyle Chalmers, aged 18, won the 100m freestyle gold for Australia to end their 48-year drought in the sports while Michael Phelps quest for a third Rio Olympics gold was on track as he entered the medley final

Michael Phelps, owner of 22 Olympic medals in all, became the first US man to qualify to swim in five Games with a hard-fought victory in the 200m butterfly

Kosuke Hagino, 20, won medals in all seven events he compted in, winning golds in the men's 200m freestyle, 200m and 400m individual medleys, and the 800m freestyle relay, in addition to one silver in the 400m freestyle and two bronze medals in the 100m and 200m backstroke events.

The bronze won by Sandeep Sejwal is only the fourth -- after Sachin Nag's gold in the men's 100m freestyle in the inaugural Asian Games in Delhi (1951), Khazan Singh's silver in the 200m butterfly in 1986 at Seoul and Virdhawal Khade's bronze four years ago at Guangzhou in the 100m butterfly -- medal for the country in the core sport of swimming.

Japan's Kosuke Hagino put in a strong final freestyle leg to add the 400 metres medley to his 200m medley, 200m freestyle and 4x200m freestyle titles.

Japan's Kosuke Hagino followed a shock 200 metres freestyle gold by adding his signature 200m individual medley and the 4x200m freestyle relay title.

Twenty-year-old Japanese swimmer Kosuke Hagino, who beat American great Michael Phelps in the 200m medley at last month's Pan Pacific championships, said his surprise freestyle gold at the Asian Games could elevate him to the next level.

Saurabh Sangvekar (5th), Aaron D'Souza (4th) and Prathapan Nair (7th) fail to qualify for finals of Men's 200m Freestyle, Men's 200m Butterfly and Men's 100m Backstroke respectively.

Olympic great Michael Phelps is slated to continue a comeback that could take him all the way to the 2016 Rio Games on Friday, when he races in the 200m freestyle and 100m butterfly at the Charlotte Ultraswim Grand Prix meeting.

Tokyo Olympics: USA's Katie Ledecky shrugged off disappointment in the 200m freestyle by winning the gruelling 1500m just 75 minutes later to win gold in Tokyo.

Tokyo Olympics: Britain's Tom Dean came back from two bouts of Covid to claim Olympic gold in the 200m freestyle in Tokyo.

Tokyo Games: With the historic sprint, swimmer Sajan Prakash rewrote his own national record of 1:56.96s that he had set last week at the Belgrade Trophy swimming competition.

Swimming: Federica Pellegrini set her sights on a fifth Olympic Games as she won a 200m freestyle silver medal at the European Championships.

Katie Ledecky smashed the world record in the 800m freestyle as she secured the gold medal in the 2016 Rio Olympics, in addition to the 200m, 400m and 4X200m relay gold

Katie Ledecky claimed her third gold as the United States of America won the women's 4X200m freestyle relay in the 2016 Rio Olympics.

Kyle Chalmers, aged 18, won the 100m freestyle gold for Australia to end their 48-year drought in the sports while Michael Phelps quest for a third Rio Olympics gold was on track as he entered the medley final

Michael Phelps, owner of 22 Olympic medals in all, became the first US man to qualify to swim in five Games with a hard-fought victory in the 200m butterfly

Kosuke Hagino, 20, won medals in all seven events he compted in, winning golds in the men's 200m freestyle, 200m and 400m individual medleys, and the 800m freestyle relay, in addition to one silver in the 400m freestyle and two bronze medals in the 100m and 200m backstroke events.

The bronze won by Sandeep Sejwal is only the fourth -- after Sachin Nag's gold in the men's 100m freestyle in the inaugural Asian Games in Delhi (1951), Khazan Singh's silver in the 200m butterfly in 1986 at Seoul and Virdhawal Khade's bronze four years ago at Guangzhou in the 100m butterfly -- medal for the country in the core sport of swimming.

Japan's Kosuke Hagino put in a strong final freestyle leg to add the 400 metres medley to his 200m medley, 200m freestyle and 4x200m freestyle titles.

Japan's Kosuke Hagino followed a shock 200 metres freestyle gold by adding his signature 200m individual medley and the 4x200m freestyle relay title.

Twenty-year-old Japanese swimmer Kosuke Hagino, who beat American great Michael Phelps in the 200m medley at last month's Pan Pacific championships, said his surprise freestyle gold at the Asian Games could elevate him to the next level.

Saurabh Sangvekar (5th), Aaron D'Souza (4th) and Prathapan Nair (7th) fail to qualify for finals of Men's 200m Freestyle, Men's 200m Butterfly and Men's 100m Backstroke respectively.

Olympic great Michael Phelps is slated to continue a comeback that could take him all the way to the 2016 Rio Games on Friday, when he races in the 200m freestyle and 100m butterfly at the Charlotte Ultraswim Grand Prix meeting.