Ryan Murphy wins his seventh Olympic medal but US miss out on gold in pool

Ryan Murphy wins his seventh Olympic medal but US miss out on gold in pool

Ryan Murphy has four Olympic gold medals to his name. Photograph: Quinn Rooney/Getty Images

Ryan Murphy won his seventh Olympic medal as claimed bronze in the men’s 100m backstroke in Paris on Tuesday night.
It was the 29-year-old’s third medal in the 100m backstroke: he won gold in Rio and bronze in Tokyo. He also has two golds in the 4x100m medley (Rio and Tokyo) and one in the 200m backstroke (Rio). He won silver in the 200m backstroke in Rio.

America’s other big medal hope on Tuesday night, Lilly King, finished in a tie for fourth in the women’s 100m breaststroke, an event she won at the 2016 Olympics. There were more medals for the US in the women’s 400m medley though. Katie Grimes and Emma Weyant won silver and bronze respectively behind the Canadian teenager Summer McIntosh.
Luke Hobson added another medal for the US in the men’s 200m freestyle behind gold medalist David Popovici of Romania and Great Britain’s Luke Hobson, who took silver.