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Swimming LIVE: King Kyle inspires Aussies to ‘extraordinary’ comeback; stars storm into semis

Swimming LIVE: King Kyle inspires Aussies to ‘extraordinary’ comeback; stars storm into semis

There will be more opportunities for Australia to continue its dominance in the pool when Day 7 gets underway at the Paris Olympics, with Cam McEvoy and Kaylee McKeown already locked into medal events on Saturday morning.

It may not be the only time McKeown is competing on Saturday though, with the 23-year-old Queenslander also in the women’s 200m individual medley semifinals alongside Ella Ramsay.

The pair both progressed through their respective heats, qualifying sixth and ninth overall.

Elsewhere, Matthew Temple and Ben Armbruster also both qualified for the men’s 100m butterfly semifinals.

Temple finished strong to claim second in his heat with a time of 50.89 behind France’s Maxime Grousset (50.65) while Armbruster came fifth in his heat (51.33).

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Kaylee McKeown qualified for the 200m individual medley semifinals. (Photo by François-Xavier MARIT / AFP)Source: AFP

Meanwhile, Ariarne Titmus and Katie Ledecky faced off once again, this time in the women’s 800m freestyle heats as the American superstar won the heat by three seconds.

Titmus, who was just trailing Ledecky with around 500m left, came third in the heat with a time of 8:19.87 and qualified third overall.

Lani Pallister is also through to the 800m freestyle semifinals after qualifying fourth overall, having won her heat with a time of 8:20.21.

The final heat of the morning saw Australia feature in the mixed 4×100 medley relay, with a strong finish from Kyle Chalmers seeing the quartet storm to victory with a time of 3:41.42.

It may even be an understatement to say Chalmers stormed home though after a comeback which was described as “just extraordinary” in commentary.

He was the only male in the final freestyle leg, entering the water seventh in the changeover.

The Australian team consisted of Iona Anderson, Zac Stubblety-Cook, Emma McKeon and Chalmers.

Anderson was seventh after the first 100m, with Stubblety-Cook improving Australia’s position to fifth before McKeown took over and then Chalmers, who was fourth at the 50-metre turn, finished it off in style to win by 2.18 seconds.

Australia qualified second overall with Team USA (3:40.98) first, while Great Britain, Canada, Japan, Netherlands, China and France are the other nations that will feature in the final.

Follow this page for recaps of all the heats, semifinals and finals from Day 7!

SWIMMING SCHEDULE — DAY 7

7pm: Men’s 100m butterfly heats — Matthew Temple, Ben Armbruster

7.17pm: Women’s 200m individual medley heats — Ella Ramsay, Kaylee McKeown

7.40pm: Women’s 800m freestyle heats — Lani Pallister, Ariarne Titmus

8.03pm: Mixed 4x100m medley relay heats — Australia

4.30am: Men’s 50m freestyle final — Cameron McEvoy

4.36am: Women’s 200m backstroke final — Kaylee McKeown

4.43am: Men’s 200m individual medley final

5am: Men’s 100m butterfly semifinal

5.22am: Women’s 200m individual medley semifinal