JAMES Guy admitted to being disappointed that his Olympics did not finish with a third gold medal.

The Bury swimmer added a silver to his collection in the men’s 4×100 metres medley relay at the Tokyo games.

Joined by Duncan Scott, who made history as the first British athlete to win four medals at a single Olympics, Adam Peaty and Luke Greenbank, Guy saw an American world record be the difference between first and second spot having earlier won gold in the mixed 4x100m medley relay and the men’s 4x200m freestyle relay.

The Americans clocked three minutes and 26.78 seconds at the Tokyo Aquatics Centre while Britain finished 0.73secs adrift in a new European record time as they claimed a record eighth swimming medal – four golds, three silvers and a bronze – making it Great Britain’s best-ever haul in the pool, beating their previous best from the 1908 London Games.

Guy had produced one of the swims of his life in helping Team GB to their mixed 4x100m medley relay triumph 24 hours earlier, and he left everything out in the pool once again as he battled with individual 100m butterfly world-record holder Caeleb Dressel, in an outside lane. 

He said: "The way this week has been for British Swimming is unbelievable, with medals all over the place.

“If you’d talked to us in 2015 or 2016, we’d have bit their hand off. It’s been a great meet so far, we’re a bit sad that we didn’t get the gold today but it’s a world record and we played our part in that."