2020 Tokyo Olympics Highlights #2 : Swimming Quiz

Answer: 3

There were three new events: men's 800m freestyle, women's 1500 m freestyle and the mixed 4 x 100 m medley relay.

U.S. swimmer Robert Finke won the men's 800m freestyle new event. He completed a double on the long distance event with the victory in the 1500m freestyle. Katie Ledecky of USA won the women's 1500 m freestyle new event and the 800 m freestyle. Great Britain won the mixed 4 x 100 m medley relay finshing ahead of China and Australia.

Answer: Tunisia

Tunisian Ahmed Hafnaoui (born 4 December 2002) was ranked no. 16th in the world in this event. He became the third swimmer to win a gold medal swimming from the 8th lane which was for the slowest qualifier. The previous two were: Franziska van Almsick (Germany), who won the 200m freestyle gold medal from Lane 8 at the 1994 FINA World Championships , held in Rome. Keiren Perkins (Australia) won the 1500m freestyle gold medal from Lane 8 at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics.

Answer: Great Britain

Great Britain finished in 6 mins. 58.58 sec in a new European record to win the event with ROC in second place and Australia third.

Answer: Hong Kong

Sioban Haughey (born 31 October 1997) was born in Hong Kong shortly after the handover to China. Her father is Irish and her mother is from Hong Kong.
Emma McKeon won the 100m and Ariarne Titmus won the 200m.

Answer: 200 m breaststroke

Tatjana Schoenmaker (born 9 July 1997) broke the world record in 200m breaststroke in a time of 2 min. 18.95 sec. She won a silver medal in 100m breaststroke behind American Lydia Jacoby.
Thee previous world record of 2:19.11 had stood for almost 8 years -- it was held by Rikke Moller Pedersen (Denmark), set on 1 August 2013.

Answer: China

China finished in a new world record time of 7 min. 40.33 sec to win the event. United States were second in 7 min. 40.73 sec and Australia were third in 7 min. 41.29 sec.

Answer: Russian Olympic Committee (ROC)

Evgeny Rykov (born 23 September 1996) won the two backstroke events. He beat favorite American Ryan Murphy who won the bronze medal in 100m event and silver in the 200m event.

Answer: 200 m and 400 m individual medley

Yui Ohashi (born 18 October 1995) became the first Japanese woman to swim under 2 min. 8 sec in 200 m individual medley. She won 200 m event in 2 min. 8.52 sec and the 400 m event in 4 min 32.08 sec.

Answer: China

Chinese Wang Shun (born 11 February 1994) became the first Asian swimmer to win an Olympic gold medal in this event. He won a bronze medal in the same event at 2016 in Rio.

Answer: Eleven

United States won 11 golds, 10 silvers and 9 bronzes, followed by Australia with 9 golds, 3 silvers and 9 bronzes. Great Britain were third winning 4 golds, 3 silvers and 1 bronze. American swimmer Caeleb Dressel won 5 gold medals in 50 m freestyle, 100 m freestyle, 100 m butterfly, 4 x 100 m freestyle relay and 4 x 100 m medley relay.