The American Caeleb Dressel won the Olympic title in the 100m freestyle, the main race of the Olympics, Thursday in Tokyo.

The young Frenchman Maxime Grousset, 22, came very close to the feat but failed in fourth place, at the foot of the podium. 

The American Caeleb Dressel won Thursday the queen race of swimming at the Tokyo Olympics, the 100m freestyle, in 47 sec 02 / 100th, ahead of the Australian Kyle Chalmers (47.08) and the Russian Kliment Kolesnikov (47.44).

For his first Games, Maxime Grousset, 22 years old and water line number 8, took fourth place (47.72), thus failing to become the first French medalist on the round trip since the coronation of Alain Bernard in 2008 .

Caeleb Dressel king of the world sprint!



The American broke the Olympic record in 47.02s and won the 100m freestyle ahead of Kyle Chalmers and Kliment Kolesnikov.



Maxime Grousset finished 4th # Tokyo2020



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Caeleb Dressel in the running for a harvest of medals 

Sixth over the distance at the 2016 Rio Olympics, Dressel took control of the sprint planet the following year, accumulating thirteen world crowns and becoming the fastest swimmer in history out of 100 at the 2019 Worlds in Gwangju. m without combination (46.96).

Titled from his first dive on Sunday with the 4x100m, the 24-year-old Floridian is still aiming for four additional gold medals in the 100m butterfly, 50m freestyle, 4x100m medley and 4x100m mixed medley.

"I wasn't worried about anything. During the race you can't do much, what must happen will happen. So I stick to my plan," explained the mixed zone champion, savoring his first individual gold , "very different" from his two relay titles in Rio and third in Japan.