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Tunisia's Ahmed Hafnaoui stuns rest of the field to win men's 400m freestyle gold as 18-year-old - who was EIGHTH fastest in his heat - produced priceless reaction after winning by 0.16 seconds - having not realised he finished first! There was a major shock in the Aquatics centre for the men's 400m freestyle Tunisian teenager Ahmed Hafnaoui stunned the field to win by 0.16 seconds Initially he had not realised that he touched the wall first to win Olympic gold
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Tunisian teenager Ahmed Hafnaoui caused a stir in the pool with a shock win in the 400 metres freestyle – insisting his incredible improvement was simply down to 'hard work'.
The unheralded 18-year-old had a lifetime best of just 3min 49.9sec at the turn of the year and had only scraped into Sunday's final eighth quickest.
However, Hafnaoui stunned the rest of the field from lane eight to take gold with a huge new personal best of 3:43.36 – a time which was also 2.32sec faster than his heat the night before.
