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On a gloriously sunny morning, Jonny Brownlee stepped out of a shadow and into a golden glow. It has taken an awful lot of swimming, cycling and running to get to this point, but finally the little brother joined the family business of winning Olympic titles.
It wasn’t the sort of individual crown won twice by his elder sibling Alistair, but who cares? What a marvellous tale in a Games that has already thrown up its share.
Bronze at London 2012, silver in Rio de Janeiro four years later, and here the succession dream appeared to be done when he was fifth in the individual. But back he stormed in the team relay on Saturday morning, part of a fabulous four with Jess Learmonth, Georgia Taylor-Brown and Alex Yee.
Team GB won gold in the mixed triathlon relay after a superb effort from Alex Yee in Tokyo
He ensured Britain's team of Jonny Brownlee (L), Jessica Learmonth (C) and Georgia Taylor-Brown (R) won by 14 seconds ahead of the USA
With Yee and Taylor-Brown having won silver medals across the past week, they were always favourites to hit the top step. And with Brownlee breaking the pack on his run, there were only sporadic moments late on when it looked as if they might have to settle for a lesser shade of metal.
Brief moments. Irrelevant moments. When it was all done, with Yee
