Australia won the gold medal at 4x100m medley relay for women at Tokyo 2020 Olympics.
Kaylee McKeown, Chelsea Hodges, Emma McKeon, and Cate Campbell triumphed with a new Olympic record of 3:51.60 minutes, improving the previous US record of 3:52.05 minutes from August 4, 2012, at the London Games.
Canada’s Kylie Masse was fastest through the opening backstroke leg before teenager Lydia Jacoby put the Americans in front following the breaststroke.
The Australians were second in most of the race, but in the last freestyle position, Cate Campbell managed to overtake the American Abbey Weitzeil.
The world champion and defending the title from the Rio 2016, the US team, remained in second place at 13 hundredths of a second, and Canada finished third in a second behind the winners.
The 27-year-old Australian Emma McKeon went down in history after winning the seventh award in the Japanese capital and became the first swimmer with such an achievement at an Olympics.
Earlier today, she was the fastest in the 50m freestyle and added to her 100m freestyle titles with the 4x100m freestyle relay. Emma McKeon also won bronze medals in the 100m butterfly, the relay in the 4x200m freestyle and the mixed relay in the 4x100m medley swimming.
Women’s Swimming 4x100m medley relay:
1. Australia (Kaylee McKeown, Chelsea Hodges, Emma McKeon and Cate Campbell) – 3:51.60 minutes – Olympic record
2. USA – 3:51.73
3. Canada – 3:52.60
