USA Men Win Gold, Women Medal In Olympics Freestyle Swimming Relay Finals

The U.S. Men's Swimming Team won gold and the Women's Swimming Team won silver during the 4x100-meter freestyle relay finals at the 2024 Paris Olympics on Saturday (July 27).

The American men, comprised of Jack Alexy , Chris Guiliano , Hunter Armstrong and anchored by eight-time Olympic gold medalist Caeleb Dressel , finished with a time of 3:09.28, less than a full second shy of their 3:08.24 4x100-meter Olympic record set at the 2008 Beijing Games. Australia took silver with a time of 3:10.35 and Italy bronze at 3:10.70.

The American women finished with a time of 3:30.20 for silver, 1.28 behind Australia, which finished less than a second behind its Olympic record of 3:29.69 and 1.73 seconds shy of its World Record of 3:27.96.

The relay events followed the Men's and Women's 400-meter men's and women's freestyle events. American Katie Ledecky , the most decorated female swimmer in Olympic history, finished third with an official time of marked 4:00.86, trailing Australia's Ariarne Titmus at 3:57.49 and Canada's Summer McIntosh at 3:58.37 to win bronze.

Titmus fell 2.99 seconds short of matching the 400-meter freestyle world record of 3:55.38, which she set at the 2023 World Aquatics Championship. Ledecky edged Titmus in the 400-meter heat earlier on Saturday, finishing in 4:02.19.

McIntosh finished one tenth behind New Zealand's Erika Fairweather -- who finished fourth in the final -- in Heat 2. Ledecky is seven-time Olympic and 21-time world championship gold medalist, which included winning gold in the women's 800-meter freestyle at the age of 15 during her international debut at the 2012 London Games, four gold medals, one silver and two world records at the 2016 Rio Games and two gold and two silver medals at the pandemic-delayed 2020 Tokyo Games.

Germany's Lukas Märtens won gold with a time of 3:41.78 in the men's 400-meter freestyle event, falling just short of breaking fellow countryman Paul Biedermann 's record of 3:40.07 set at the 2009 World Championships. Australia's Elijah Winnington finished at 3:42.21 for silver and South Korea's Kim Woo-min at 3:42.50 for bronze.

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