Australia retained its Olympic gold medal in the 4x100 relay on Sunday at the Tokyo Aquatics Center.Doug Mills/The New York Times
TOKYO — Seizing the lead near the midway point and never looking back, the Australian women’s swim team won its third straight gold medal in the 4x100 freestyle on Sunday in world-record time.
Australia was the heavy favorite in the event and didn’t disappoint, winning by more than three seconds in a time of 3 minutes 29.69 seconds. Canada took the silver with a time of 3:32:78, edging the United States by three-hundredths of a second.
0m
100m
200m
300m
400m
8th
DEN
3:35.70
3rd
USA
3:32.81
2nd
CAN
3:32.78
1st
AUS
3:29.69
4th
NED
3:33.70
5th
GBR
3:33.96
7th
CHN
3:34.76
6th
SWE
3:34.69
The United States won the bronze after inserting Simone Manuel into the anchor leg, a last-minute swap after its team finished a disappointing fifth in the qualifying heats. Manuel was the defending Olympic champion in the 100 free but failed to qualify for the event this summer.
Who had the fastest time in each leg
Fastest
2nd fastest
3rd fastest
53.07
53.78
54.46
54.39
8th
DEN
3:35.70
54.02
52.68
53.15
52.96
3rd
USA
3:32.81
53.42
53.47
53.63
52.26
2nd
CAN
3:32.78
53.01
53.09
51.35
52.24
1st
AUS
3:29.69
54.64
52.87
54.14
52.05
4th
NED
3:33.70
53.16
53.23
54.73
52.84
5th
GBR
3:33.96
54.10
53.54
54.22
52.90
7th
CHN
3:34.76
52.62
53.62
53.51
54.94
6th
SWE
3:34.69
After a fairly tight first two legs, the Australians separated themselves from the field when Emma McKeon swam the third leg at 51.35 seconds, nearly two seconds faster than Natalie Hinds of the United States, who was next at 53.15.
First leg
Australia’s Bronte Campbell had the slowest reaction time out of the blocks on the first leg with a time of 0.75 of a second, but in a race as long as this, the Australians easily made up that deficit. Sarah Sjostrom of Sweden led the swimmers off the blocks with a time of 0.65 seconds.
Leg start
Turn
Finish
Blume
53.07
Brown
54.02
Sanchez
53.42
Campbell
53.01
Busch
54.64
Hopkin
53.16
Cheng
54.10
Sjostrom
52.62
Sjostrom, one of the fastest women in the world in the 100-meter freestyle, built off her reaction time to give Sweden the lead after the first leg. She had the race’s fifth-fastest leg. Australia’s Campbell touched second, 39 hundredths of a second behind. Canada was fifth and the U.S. was in sixth place.
Second leg
Leg start
Turn
Finish
Weitzeil
52.68
Macneil
53.47
Harris
53.09
Kromowidjojo
52.87
Wood
53.23
Coleman
53.62
The Australians took the lead for good with Meg Harris swimming a split of 53.09 seconds, although hers was not the fastest of the second legs. Abbey Weitzeil of the United States had the fastest time with 52.68 seconds and Ranomi Kromowidjojo of the Netherlands was next with 52.87.
Third leg
Photograph by The New York Times
Emma McKeon all but put the race away for Australia in the third leg, outdistancing the field by a body length or more. Her time of 51.35 was the fastest of the 32 legs in the race. By the end of the leg, Australia had an insurmountable lead of nearly two seconds. All that remained was to see who would grab the silver and gold.
Leg start
Turn
Finish
Jensen
54.46
Hinds
53.15
Smith
53.63
McKeon
51.35
Toussaint
54.14
Hope
54.73
Position in photo
Hansson
53.51
Anchor leg
Photograph by The New York Times
Sweden, which had been either first or second through the first three legs, fell to sixth by the finish. Manuel of the United States, who also won gold in the relay in 2016, swam the 10th-fastest leg of the race and was narrowly beaten to the wall by Penny Oleksiak of Canada. Manuel had a faster time in her 100 than two of the Australian gold medalists. But overall, the Australian team was faster than any other women’s 4x100-meter freestyle team in history.
Leg start
Turn
Finish
Ottesen
54.39
Manuel
52.96
Oleksiak
52.26
Campbell
52.24
Heemskerk
52.05
Anderson
52.84
Hansson
54.94
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