Pan crowns himself Olympic champion with world record

Pan only needed 46.40 seconds to cover the two lane lengths.

As clear as the victory of the world champion was, it was very close behind him. The Australian Kyle Chalmers in 2nd place and Nandor Nemeth from Hungary in 4th place were separated by just two hundredths. The Romanian David Popovici swam right into this gap. The dethroned world record holder secured bronze, 1.09 seconds behind Pan.

In the women's event, victory went to Sweden's Sarah Sjöström. Eight years after her first Olympic victory - in the 100 m dolphin - she secured her second gold medal in 52.16 seconds. She relegated the American Torri Huske and Siobhan Haughey from Hong Kong to the other medal places.