AN emotional James Guy could not hold back the tears as he won Olympic gold in Tokyo.

The Bury swimmer was part of the men’s 4x200m freestyle relay team that stormed to victory at the Tokyo aquatics centre.

The victory saw team-mate Tom Dean become the first British male swimmer to win more than one gold medal at a single Olympics in 113 years having produced the performance of his life to triumph in the men’s 200m freestyle 24 hours earlier.

Duncan Scott, who claimed individual silver on Tuesday, and Matthew Richards completed the team and their time of six minutes and 58.58 seconds saw them bag Team GB’s third swimming gold of Tokyo 2020.

Dean started the race and actually performed the slowest of the British quartet, with a time of 1min 45.72secs putting them behind the Russian Olympic Committee and the United States after the first 200m.

Guy, though, established a narrow lead for the pre-race favourites by the halfway stage with his split of 1:44.40 and despite a sluggish start Richards had taken that lead to more than a second with his 1:45.01.

Scott then brought it home in emphatic fashion with 1:43.45 as Britain finished more than three seconds ahead of the second-placed ROC and just 0.03secs off a world record time.

Having won two relay silvers in Rio, including one in the same event, Guy was visibly moved as the enormity of his achievement dawned on him.

The Bath-based athlete said: “As a kid winning an Olympic gold medal was my absolute dream and to do it finally after 25 years is pretty emotional.”