With a 200m swim of 2 minutes and 3.03 seconds, the 17-year-old Canadian Summer McIntosh has achieved her personal best and the continental record as Regan Smith of Team USA came in second place. 

It was McIntosh's third medal in Paris after winning the 400m medley and taking silver behind Ariarne Titmus in the 400m freestyle.

It was a hotly contested final at the Defence Arena in Paris, which has been hosting some highly acclaimed competitions these days, full of surprises, records and passion.

Regan Smith had 2:03.84 and Chinese defending champion Zhang Yufei swam in 2:05.09. Regan Smith dived as hard as she could on the last turn to try to come back, but it was not enough to unseat McIntosh, nor was the sprint by China's Zhang Yufei, which helped her stand out but did not trouble the 17-year-old Canadian.

In a new afternoon for swimming, Hubert Kos powered to gold in the men's 200m backstroke on Thursday, touching in 1min 54.26sec to deliver Hungary's first gold of the Paris Olympics. is the first Hungarian to win the event since Sandor Wladar in Moscow in 1980.

Greece's Apostolos Christou, who had led until the final turn, took the silver medal, finishing 0.56sec behind Kos, while Switzerland's Roman Mityukov won bronze.

The 2023 world champion, who, the same as France's idol Lion. is trained by Michael Phelps's former coach Bob Bowman, produced a devastating final 25 metres to leave the Greek in his wake and finish a comfortable winner in the end.

Titmus lead Australia yo gold in relay

'Terminatur' Titmus, in a sensational Games with golden in 400m free and silver in 200m free,, was the last swimmer in relay team, leading Australia to a Olympic gold ahead of the US team with the aclamated star Katie Ledecky.

The quartet of Titmus, Mollie O'Callaghan, Lani Pallister and Brianna Throssell broke the Olympic record in the event with a time of 7 minutes 38.08 seconds, beating the USA (7:40.86) and China (7:42.34).

Ledecky claimed her 13th medal and will have to wait until the 800m freestyle to claim a ninth gold to tie her with Larissa Latynina as the most decorated woman in the history of the Games.

Kate Douglass or Leon Marchand

Kate Douglass of the United States holds off South African favourite Tatjana Smith defending champion to win a thrilling women's 200m breaststroke gold at the Paris Olympics and Olympic record.

This victory is her third Olympic medal following bronze in the 200m medley in Tokyo and silver in the 4x100m freestyle relay in Paris, in a evening with a new gold por France rising swimming star Leon Marchand, in Men's 200m breaststroke. Chines Panzhale wons Gold in 100m free style.