Tom Dean’s Olympic win sparks wild 3am celebrations from family and friends in his mum’s back garden in Maidenhead

TOM DEAN sent his friends and family in Maidenhead back home into party mode at 3am after his historic Olympic gold medal triumph.

The 21-year-old led a Team GB one-two to win a brilliant 200m men’s freestyle at the Tokyo Aquatics Centre.

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He and Scotland’s Duncan Scott pulled off Britain’s first gold and silver haul in a swimming event in 113 years.

Afterwards, Dean said: “Thanks so much to everyone back home, my mum, my family, my girlfriend, all the boys back in Maidenhead, thank you for staying up.”

A video has now emerged on social media of the star’s nearest and dearest gathered together to cheer him on during the race at 3am this morning.

And they went wild once he confirmed his first and Team GB’s fourth gold medal of the Games.

A large number were together under the night sky in his mum’s back garden to watch Dean and his victory was met with screams and cries of joy with hugs aplenty.

Britain have not gone one-two in a swimming pool at the Olympic Games since 1908.

Dean broke the British record in 1:44.22, touching just four hundredths of a second ahead of his team-mate.

It meant that Glaswegian Scott just missed out on his bid to become Scotland’s first swimming gold medallist since David Wilkie in 1976.

But nothing could deny Dean, whose preparation was interrupted TWICE this year after he tested positive for Covid, his stunning triumph.

Scott, third behind now-banned drugs cheat Sun Yang of China at the 2019 world championships, knew this was his chance of glory.

He was only sixth at the halfway mark, trailing Sunwoo Hwang of South Korea.

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But they began their moves in the third 50m, with Dean moving up to third and Scott, seemingly too far behind, in fourth.

The pair then blitzed through the last 50m.

Scott, powering through the field, looked set to clinch gold only for Dean to come again to just get the touch to become Britain’s second Olympic swimming champion of Tokyo 2020 after Adam Peaty.