2016 RIO OLYMPIC GAMES

EUROPEAN SWIMMING MEDAL TABLE AS OF RIO DAY 8:

COUNTRY GOLD SILVER BRONZE TOTAL Hungary 3 2 2 7 Great Britain 1 5 0 6 Sweden 1 1 1 3 Spain 1 0 1 2 Italy 1 0 1 2 Denmark 1 0 1 2 Russia 0 2 2 4 France 0 2 0 2 Belgium 0 1 0 1 Belarus 0 0 1 1 Total 8 12 10 30

EUROPEAN SWIMMING RECORDS BROKEN ON RIO DAY 8:

Swimmer Event Time Record Pernille Blume W 50 Free 24.07 Danish record Aliaksandria Herasimenia W 50 Free 24.11 Belarusian Record DEN W 4×100 Medley 3:55.01 Danish Record GBR M 4×100 Medley 3:29.24 British Record

In London Great Britain had a disastrous Olympic Games winning only one silver and two bronze in the pool. Since that point British Swimming has done an overhaul of their structure and their approach, which paid great dividends in Rio.

In the pool the British team won one gold and five silver medals at the 2016 Games. British swimmers also set one world record and seven new national marks, which is a pretty good improvement over a four-year period.

Although the team will walk away from Rio with their heads held high after achieving what they did there will still be some broken hearts because of the team’s near misses. There were seven British swimmers who finished in fourth in their respective events.

They included:

This could be seen as a positive or a negative, but it doesn’t which viewpoint you have the fact remains the Brits are headed in the right direction.