Kathleen Dawson, Adam Peaty, James Guy and Anna Hopkin crushed their rivals with a world-record time in the inaugural Olympic 4x100m mixed medley relay to give Great Britain’s swimmers a fourth gold medal — equalling their best haul in the pool at a Games, set 113 years ago.
The quartet blew their rivals out of the water with a time of 3min 37.58sec in the race, in which each team was made up of two men and two women — the first time the genders have raced together at an Olympics.
This gold took Britain’s tally here to four golds, two silvers and one bronze, a precise match of their haul at the London Games in 1908. With expectations high of a medal — and
