Dean & Scott combine for GB's fifth gold

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Tom Dean & Duncan Scott combine for GB's fifth gold at the Tokyo Olympics

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Breaststroke specialist Abbie Wood came within 0.11secs of claiming another British medal in the pool as she was edged out of bronze in the 200m individual medley.Elsewhere and later today Jack Laugher and new partner Daniel Goodfellow attempt to defend the 3m synchronised springboard title Laugher won at Rio 2016 at 07:00 BST.

However Britain's strength in the depth told as Guy, Matthew Richards and Scott, with a 1:43.45 final leg, stretched clear of the rest. Harry Leask, Angus Groom, Tom Barras and Jack Beaumont held off the fast-finishing Australia boat by 0.22secs. "We decided that, as we were in lane one with an outside chance of a medal, we were going to take it to them and we really did it."

 

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