2020 Tokyo Summer Olympic Games
- When: Pool swimming: Saturday, July 24 – Sunday, August 1, 2021
- Open Water swimming: Wednesday, August 4 – Thursday, August 5, 2021
- Where: Olympic Aquatics Centre / Tokyo, Japan
- Heats: 7 PM / Semifinals & Finals: 10:30 AM (Local time)
- Full aquatics schedule
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- Entry Lists
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- Day 2 Finals Heat Sheet
Day 2 belonged to Australia, who closed the gap with the United States on the medal table. The Aussies are now tied with the Americans with two gold medals each. Ariarne Titmus won gold in the 400 free, handing USA’s Katie Ledecky her first Olympic defeat. Emma McKeon added to Australia’s haul with a bronze in the women’s 100 fly. Matthew Temple, Zac Incerti, Alexander Graham, and Kyle Chambers added a bronze in the men’s 4×100 free.
Team USA held onto first place thanks to the men’s 4×100 free relay. Caeleb Dressel, Blake Pieroni, Bowe Becker, and Zach Apple gave the Americans their sole gold of the morning. Other than Ledecky’s silver, the United States were shut out of the podia in the individual events. Both Torri Huske in the women’s 100 fly and Michael Andrew in the men’s 100 breast finished fourth.
Canada moved into third place with Maggie MacNeil’s gold medal in the 100 fly, in a very tight race that saw only .14 separate 1st place from 4th place.
China earned their first medal of the Games with Zhang Yufei’s silver in the 100 fly. Li Bingjie added a bronze in the 400 free.
Adam Peaty put Great Britain on the table when he defended his 2016 Olympic gold medal in the 100 breast.
Arno Kamminga gave Netherlands their first medal with a silver in the 100 breast.
Nicolo Martinenghi picked up Italy’s first medal with a bronze in the 100 breast. Alessandro Miressi, Thomas Ceccon, Lorenze Zazzeri, and Manuel Frigo added a silver in the men’s 4×100 free.
Tokyo 2020 Olympics: Pool Swimming Medal Table After Day 2
| Nation | Total Medals | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| USA | 8 | 2 | 3 | 3 |
| Australia | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| Canada | 2 | 1 | 1 | |
| Great Britain | 1 | 1 | ||
| Japan | 1 | 1 | ||
| Tunisia | 1 | 1 | ||
| China | 2 | 1 | 1 | |
| Italy | 2 | 1 | 1 | |
| Netherlands | 1 | 1 |
wow: Did Apple cut it close when leaving the block? As close as one could be, I would think. Even watching on TV, it looked very tight; heck, we went from having at most a head lead to something close to a full body lead by the time he came up from his start. Well-timed! Phew.
USA will definitely end up with most total, but most golds hinges on a handful of key races.
If McKeown and Chalmers can deal with their American rivals or vice versa it’s a potential 6 gold medal swing.
US has more events that seem like locks left, so Australia needs to win pretty much every one of these borderline events to pull it off.
Quite the opposite actually.
Traditionally the process has been to rank by golds with silver medals splitting ties (and bronze splitting still tied nations). See above article for evidence.
NBC started listing by total in Beijing because China was ahead for a significant portion of the games, but it is usually done by gold.
Ultimately it’s not meant to be treated as a scoreboard though, so it’s largely a silly idea to begin with.
Edit: changed US to NBC because it sounded like I was making a point I wasn’t making.
Hmmmm since we’re counting totals, why stop at 3rd? 4th place, 5th place finishes are good too! By your logic, surely two 5th place finishes are better than a gold medal right?
Would you rather go home with 3 gold medals or 4 silvers and 3 bronze?
No one has ever calculated the medal table by total medals. It’s always done by golds. If you think a country with 11 bronze medals beats a country with 10 golds you are dreaming.
The official Olympic medal tally sorts by gold medals.
OK then, so if a country has 3 golds and another has 3 bronze, they’re both equal in your eyes. Dunce.
Let’ s make it that way: 3pts (individual gold) – 2pts (individual silver) – 1pt (individual bronze)
6pts (relay gold) – 4pts (relay silver) – 2pts (relay bronze)
The olympics isn’t a duel meet.
I think Australia won 10 swimming medals in Rio so they’re well on their way to matching that medal tally in the pool
should be very easy to exceed that, with the 50/100/200 free, 100/200, and both relays on the women’s side alone
More than half our golds and more than half our total medals of Rio in just two days.
The most important takeaway of the night is that the #1 Former US National Team member, Canadian Olympian, USC Trojan, Bolles School alum, and Italian Olympian Santo Condorelli now has an Olympic medal
He’s kind of like a modern day Goldie Locks
Don’t forget born in Japan. What a renaissance man!
wow