Get the day's biggest stories sent direct to your inbox so you never miss a thing Slipping off the wall at the start of the biggest swimming race of your life is the stuff of nightmares but Kathleen Dawson kept her composure to surge all the way to Olympic gold.
Along with breaststroke star Adam Peaty, James Guy (butterfly) and Anna Hopkin on the freestyle anchor leg, Dawson’s backstroke performance helped Team GB triumph in the first-ever Olympic 4x100m mixed medley relay final at the Tokyo Aquatics Centre on Saturday.
It wasn’t just another gold medal to add to the already-historic haul from Great Britain’s swimmers at these Olympics, but a world record-destroying performance – their time of 3:37.58 a full 0.83s better than the old best.
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