Bobby Finke was the last hope for the U.S. men’s swim team to earn an individual Olympic gold medal.
On swimming’s final night, he delivered in a big way.
Finke earned the Olympic gold in the men’s 1500-meter freestyle and set a new world record on Sunday.
He was under world-record pace the entire race and really turned it on coming to the finish. He touched in 14 minutes, 30.67 seconds to break the record of 14.31.02 set by China’s Sun Yang at the 2012 London Games.
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