USA mixed 4x100M medley relay team breaks world record to win gold at Olympics


Gold medals have been arduous to come back by within the pool for the Individuals, however their most up-to-date one got here in grand type.

The blended 4×100 medley relay workforce won the gold medal on Saturday by setting a world file.

Ryan Murphy, Gretchen Walsh, Nic Fink, and Torri Huske swam the race in 3:37.43, beating the world file by 15-hundredths of a second (China, at 3:37.55, additionally beat the earlier world file, however got here in second).

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Ryan Murphy of the U.S. competes throughout the Paris 2024 Olympic Video games on the Paris La Protection Area in Nanterre. (SEBASTIEN BOZON/AFP through Getty Pictures)

It was the sixth gold for the Individuals within the swimming pool. They now path Australia by one.

It is Huske’s second gold of the Video games. She additionally took dwelling the women’s 100m butterfly (Walsh gained silver). Huske earned silver within the girls’s 100m free and within the 4×100 free relay, alongside Walsh.

It comes a day after the blended 4×400 relay observe workforce set a world file in that occasion, however they needed to accept the silver medal in Saturday’s remaining.

Gretchen Walsh, Nic Fink, Ryan Murphy

Gretchen Walsh, Nic Fink and Ryan Murphy of Workforce United States have a good time after profitable gold in a world-record time within the Combined 4x100m Medley Relay Last on day eight of the Olympic Video games Paris 2024 at Paris La Protection Area on August 3, 2024, in Nanterre, France.  (Quinn Rooney/Getty Pictures)

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The occasion made its debut in Tokyo, with Nice Britain, China, and Australia incomes the highest three spots, respectively. America completed in fifth with Murphy, Lydia Jacoby, Huske and eight-time gold medalist Caeleb Dressel.

The world file was the Individuals’ second gold of the day within the pool, as Katie Ledecky gained her record-breaking ninth simply a number of minutes earlier within the 800m freestyle.

Gretchen Walsh and Torri Huske embrace

U.S.’ Gretchen Walsh (R), U.S.’ Nic Fink (2nd R), U.S.’ Ryan Murphy (L) and U.S.’ Torri Huske (2nd L) have a good time after profitable the ultimate of the blended 4x100m medley relay remaining swimming occasion throughout the Paris 2024 Olympic Video games on the Paris La Protection Area in Nanterre, west of Paris, on August 3, 2024.  (SEBASTIEN BOZON/AFP through Getty Pictures)

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Sunday would be the remaining day of Olympic swimming, with 4 medals (girls’s 50m free, males’s 1500m free, males’s and girls’s 4x100m medley) nonetheless left to be gained.

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