Winning four golds and five medals, the USA’s Katie Ledecky completed a historic 200m, 400m and 800m freestyle hat-trick, breaking two world records in the process. Not far behind was Hungary’s Katinka Hosszú, who lived up to her nickname of the “Iron Lady” by negotiating a punishing schedule to pick up three golds and four medals in total, setting world and Olympic records in the two individual medleys.

The complete lineups for this summer’s Olympic basketball tournament have been confirmed – and now all eyes will be on Rio, where the men’s and women’s competitions will each see 12 leading nations battle it out for gold.

Penny Taylor #7 of Australia attempts a shot against Kelly Santos #15 of Brazil during a Women's Basketball Preliminary Round game on Day 1 of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games at Youth Arena on August 6, 2016 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Silver medalists Leah Neale, Emma McKeon, Bronte Barratt and Tamsin Cook of Australia, Gold medalists Allison Schmitt, Leah Smith, Maya Dirado and Katie Ledecky of the United States and Bronze medalists Katerine Savard, Taylor Ruck, Brittany MacLean and Penny Oleksiak of Canada pose on the podium during the medal ceremony for the Women's 4 x 200m Freestyle Relay Final on Day 5 of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games at the Olympic Aquatics Stadium on August 10, 2016 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.