The United States ladies’s 4×100-meter freestyle relay group captured silver within the remaining at Paris La Protection Area Saturday night time.
The U.S. was unable to take down rival Australia, which completed with gold in 3:28.92 in comparison with the U.S. group’s end of three:30.20.
Nevertheless, the U.S. defeated one other rival in China, edging them by one-tenth of a second (3:30.30).
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Kate Douglass, Gretchen Walsh, Torri Huske and Simone Manuel of america rejoice after successful silver within the ladies’s 4×100-meter freestyle relay remaining on day one of many Olympic Video games Paris 2024 at Paris La Protection Area July 27, 2024, in Nanterre, France. (Sarah Stier/Getty Photographs)
It was Simone Manuel, the anchor leg for Staff USA, who stretched her arm out to the touch the wall before China might in an exciting end.
Kate Douglass, Gretchen Walsh and Torri Huske, who all swam their legs, had been cheering Manuel your entire approach as she coated floor to beat China and safe silver.
US SECURES FIRST OLYMPIC GOLD MEDAL IN MEN’S 4X100-METER FREESTYLE RELAY
For Australia, although, this marks the fourth straight Olympics the gold medal heads down beneath after Emma McKeon, Mollie O’Callaghan, Meg Harris and Shayna Jack had been good of their swims.
McKeon, the 30-year-old Aussie star, walks away with the sixth Olympic gold medal and twelfth medal total throughout her illustrious profession.
Silver medalists of america, gold medalists of Australia and bronze medalists of the Folks’s Republic of China pose with their medals throughout the medal ceremony after the ladies’s 4×100-meter freestyle relay remaining on day one of many Olympic Video games Paris 2024 at Paris La Protection Area July 27, 2024, in Nanterre, France. (Maddie Meyer/Getty Photographs)
McKeon’s medal depend ties People Jenny Thompson, Dara Torres and Natalie Coughlin for probably the most profession Olympic medals by a ladies’s swimmer.
U.S. star Katie Ledecky completed the 400-meter freestyle earlier Saturday in third place to earn her first bronze and eleventh profession Olympic medal.
On the American aspect, Manuel was the one swimmer on this relay group who competed in a earlier Olympics. She competed within the 2020 Olympics in the identical occasion.
Silver medalists Kate Douglass, Gretchen Walsh, Torri Huske and Simone Manuel of america pose with their medals after the medal ceremony for the ladies’s 4×100-meter freestyle relay remaining on day one of many Olympic Video games Paris 2024 at Paris La Protection Area July 27, 2024, in Nanterre, France. (Al Bello/Getty Photographs)
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Manuel additionally collected gold in 2016 on the Rio Video games, popping out victorious within the 100-meter freestyle and 4×100-meter medley relay.
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