EUROPE: Britain Leaves Rio With Seven Fourth Place Finishes

2016 RIO OLYMPIC GAMES

 

EUROPEAN SWIMMING MEDAL TABLE AS OF RIO DAY 8:

COUNTRY GOLD SILVER BRONZE TOTAL
Hungary 3 2 2 7
Great Britain 1 5 0 6
Sweden 1 1 1 3
Spain 1 0 1 2
Italy 1 0 1 2
Denmark 1 0 1 2
Russia 0 2 2 4
France 0 2 0 2
Belgium 0 1 0 1
Belarus 0 0 1 1
Total 8 12 10 30

EUROPEAN SWIMMING RECORDS BROKEN ON RIO DAY 8:

Swimmer Event Time Record
Pernille Blume W 50 Free 24.07 Danish record
Aliaksandria Herasimenia W 50 Free 24.11 Belarusian Record
DEN W 4×100 Medley 3:55.01 Danish Record
GBR M 4×100 Medley 3:29.24 British Record

 

In London Great Britain had a disastrous Olympic Games winning only one silver and two bronze in the pool. Since that point British Swimming has done an overhaul of their structure and their approach, which paid great dividends in Rio.

In the pool the British team won one gold and five silver medals at the 2016 Games. British swimmers also set one world record and seven new national marks, which is a pretty good improvement over a four-year period.

Although the team will walk away from Rio with their heads held high after achieving what they did there will still be some broken hearts because of the team’s near misses. There were seven British swimmers who finished in fourth in their respective events.

They included:

  • Ben Proud – men’s 50 freestyle – 0.19 from the bronze
  • James Guy – men’s 200 freestyle – 0.26 from the bronze
  • Andrew Willis – men’s 200 breaststroke – 0.08 from the bronze
  • Max Litchfield – men’s 400 IM – 1.91 from the bronze
  • Fran Halsall – women’s 50 freestyle – 0.02 from the bronze
  • Chloe Tutton – women’s 200 breaststroke – 0.06 from the bronze
  • Hannah Miley – women’s 400 IM – 0.15 from the bronze

This could be seen as a positive or a negative, but it doesn’t which viewpoint you have the fact remains the Brits are headed in the right direction.

 

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Hswimmer
7 years ago

Yeah they should’ve used Meili for sure

Dee
7 years ago

Worth adding that three (200free, 200breast & 50free) of Britain’s 4th places were behind convicted dopers.

Sun Yang, Yuliya Efimova & Aliaksandra Herasimenia.

The drug cheats certainly hurt Britains tally.

Tigerswim22
7 years ago

Memo to Uberfan…

I think that whole “If you ain’t first, you’re last” philosophy is BS. Everyone competing at Rio wants to final; everyone who finals, wants to medal; everyone who medals, wants to win the gold medal. There is only one Olympic champion in each event. Well, two if it’s the women’s 100 freestyle.???? However, I would contend that all who train and compete cleanly, but fail to win the gold or silver or bronze, are not losers – they are OLYMPIANS and the deserve our respect!!

ddu
7 years ago

Britaon will beat usa next summer

ERVINFORTHEWIN
7 years ago

Belgium – One superb Silver in the signature event !!!

Andrei Vorontsov
7 years ago

Italy= 1 gold + 2 bronze (400/1500 free men)

Andrei Vorontsov
7 years ago

Italy = 1 gold + 2 bronze (400/1500 free G.Detti)

Damiansport1
7 years ago

Poland – 0 ;(

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