Achievement of the tournament? Of the sports that I followed, there are 3 that stood out:
-Simone Biles proved she is the best gymnast in the world by winning 4 gold medals, sometimes scoring much higher than whoever won silver.
-Nafi Thiam won gold in heptathlon by breaking 5 personal records across the 7 events. She also became the first heptathlete to jump over 1.98m (for comparison, gold in the actual high jumping final went to 1.97m).
-In the swimming tournament, both Katie Ledecky and Katinka Hosszu demonstrated their dominance by winning respectively 4 and 3 gold medals, and breaking respectively 2 and 2 world records.
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Honourable mentions I'd say are:
-Ashton Eaton matching but not improving the men's decathlon world record.
-Wayde Van Niekerk breaking the 400m track world record.
-Micheal Phelps won 5 gold medals in the men's swimming tournament, but three of those were in relay and he didn't improve any world record.
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