TOKYO, JAPAN – JULY 25: Trail Kalisz of United States celebrates worthwhile the Men’s 400m IM on day two of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games at Tokyo Aquatics Centre on July 25, 2021 in Tokyo, Japan. (Characterize by Ian MacNicol/Getty Photography)
Team USA picks up its first medal of the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo — and it’s a gold medal for Trail Kalisz
Swimmer Trail Kalisz will get the distinction of picking up the first Olympic medal — every gold and general — for the United States at the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo, changing into champion within the lads’s 400-meter particular individual medley.
Kalisz finished the last of the match in 4: 09.42.
Trail Kalisz picks up first medal, a gold, for Team USA at Tokyo 2020 Olympics with procure in men’s 400-meter particular individual medley
Kalisz’s teammate, Jay Litherland, added on to the success by finishing appropriate after, with a time of 4: 10.28, and taking the silver.
Brendon Smith of Australia finished one-tenth of a 2d following Litherland to tell the bronze.
Forward of Tokyo 2020, Kalisz took silver within the similar match at the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.
Kalisz attended the University of Georgia from 2012 to 2017, changing sincere into a three-time NCAA champion and surroundings a U.S. file for the 400-yard particular individual medley.
