Swimming at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Women's 4 × 100 metre medley relay
| Women's 4×100 metre medley relay at the Games of the XXIX Olympiad
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| Venue | Beijing National Aquatics Center | |||||||||
| Date | August 15, 2008 (heats) August 17, 2008 (final) |
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| Competitors | 74 from 16 nations | |||||||||
| Winning time | 3:52.69 WR | |||||||||
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 Australia (AUS)Emily Seebohm, Leisel Jones, Jessicah Schipper, Lisbeth Trickett, Tarnee White*, Felicity Galvez*, Shayne Reese* |
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 United States (USA)Natalie Coughlin, Rebecca Soni, Christine Magnuson, Dara Torres, Margaret Hoelzer*, Megan Jendrick*, Elaine Breeden*, Kara Lynn Joyce* |
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*Indicates the swimmer only competed in the preliminary heats. |
China (CHN)
Zhao Jing, Sun Ye, Zhou Yafei, Pang Jiaying, Xu Tianlongzi*
The women's 4 × 100 metre medley relay event at the 2008 Olympic Games took place on 15 and 17 August at the Beijing National Aquatics Center in Beijing, China.
Dominating the race from the start, the Aussie women's relay team solidified their triumph to destroy the world record and to defend the Olympic title over their American rivals for the second straight time. The foursome of Emily Seebohm (59.33), Leisel Jones (1:04.58), Jessicah Schipper (56.25), and Lisbeth Trickett (52.53) put together a perfect ending with a blazing fast time of 3:52.69 to shave three seconds off their standard from the 2007 FINA World Championships in Melbourne.
Team USA's Natalie Coughlin (58.94), Rebecca Soni (1:05.95), Christine Magnuson (56.14), and legend Dara Torres (52.27) trailed behind their greatest rivals in the pool by six-tenths of a second (0.60), but finished under a world-record time to take home a magnificent silver in a new American standard of 3:53.30. Competing in her fifth Olympics since 1984, at age 41, Torres also picked up her twelfth career medal to match Jenny Thompson's record as the most successful American woman in Olympic history. Delighted by a raucous home crowd inside the Water Cube, the Chinese quartet of Zhao Jing (59.56), Sun Ye (1:06.75), Zhou Yafei (57.40), and Pang Jiaying (52.40) ended on a spectacular fashion with a bronze medal in an Asian record of 3:56.11.
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