Ariarne Titmus has confirmed her status as a great of Australian swimming by dominating one of the best female swimmers of all time to win the showdown billed as the “race of the century”.
Titmus became the first woman in almost a century to successfully defend the 400m freestyle, and the first Australian woman to go back to back in any swimming event since Dawn Fraser, who won the 100m at three consecutive Olympics from 1956 to ’64.
Canadian teen Summer McIntosh was second, while the superstar American veteran Katie Ledecky faded to third.
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