U.S. women cap off Paris Olympic swimming with world-record gold in medley relay
NANTERRE, France — With a decades-old swimming rivalry still going strong, Team USA and Team Australia were tied with seven gold medals apiece with one remaining event at the Paris Olympics to break the deadlock: the women’s 4x100-meter medley relay.
Backstroker Regan Smith and breaststroker Lilly King were blissfully unaware of the tie; they just wanted to win. But butterflyer Gretchen Walsh wasn't.
“I knew Bobby [Finke] had tied it up because I just saw something on Instagram before,” Walsh said, referencing the American distance swimmer’s 1,500-meter freestyle gold-medal race and world record.
“Bobby's swim was electric, and that was amazing. That got my energy going for the relay, so I was pumped to hopefully assert that lead and get the gold.”
Not only did the American women win gold Sunday, they obliterated the field and broke a world record — one that belonged to Team USA from the 2019 world championships. Winning by 3.48 seconds, they lowered the world record to 3:49.63, stealing the Australian’s 2021 Olympic record as well.
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Australia finished second to win silver (3:53.11), while China won bronze (3:53.23).
The American victory also broke the gold-medal count tie. The U.S. finished with eight golds and an Olympic-leading 28 total in the pool, while Australia had seven golds and 18 total.
“It matters because we like to win,” King said. “But like we said, the two of us at least going in had no idea [about the gold-medal tally]. So we're just here to race.”
Team USA came out on fire, starting with Smith’s 57.28 100 backstroke leg, which set an Olympic record on its own and marked the first time the American topped Australian backstroker (and now former Olympic record holder) Kaylee McKeown at the Paris Games.
King rocked her 100 breaststroke, but it was Walsh on the butterfly leg who pushed the team well past world record pace, igniting the crowd at Paris La Défense Arena. With a 55.03 split, Walsh hit the wall more than a second and almost a full body length ahead of the world record. And then freestyler Torri Huske brought it home.
But even before Huske — who led Team USA in the pool with three gold and two silver medals — dove in, it was clear the Americans wouldn’t be caught, and the previous world record Smith and King helped set five years ago would be broken.
“We're here to do what we do best,” Smith said.
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