Gold medals have been exhausting to come back by within the pool for the People, however their most up-to-date one got here in grand type.
The blended 4×100 medley relay group gained the gold medal on Saturday by setting a world document.
Ryan Murphy, Gretchen Walsh, Nic Fink, and Torri Huske swam the race in 3:37.43, beating the world document by 15-hundredths of a second (China, at 3:37.55, additionally beat the earlier world document, however got here in second).
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Ryan Murphy of the U.S. competes in the course of the Paris 2024 Olympic Video games on the Paris La Protection Enviornment in Nanterre. (SEBASTIEN BOZON/AFP through Getty Pictures)
It was the sixth gold for the People within the swimming pool. They now path Australia by one.
It is Huske’s second gold of the Video games. She additionally took house the girls’s 100m butterfly (Walsh gained silver). Huske earned silver within the girls’s 100m free and within the 4×100 free relay, alongside Walsh.
It comes a day after the blended 4×400 relay monitor group set a world document in that occasion, however they needed to accept the silver medal in Saturday’s last.
Gretchen Walsh, Nic Fink and Ryan Murphy of Group United States rejoice after successful gold in a world-record time within the Combined 4x100m Medley Relay Last on day eight of the Olympic Video games Paris 2024 at Paris La Protection Enviornment on August 3, 2024, in Nanterre, France. (Quinn Rooney/Getty Pictures)
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The occasion made its debut in Tokyo, with Nice Britain, China, and Australia incomes the highest three spots, respectively. The US completed in fifth with Murphy, Lydia Jacoby, Huske and eight-time gold medalist Caeleb Dressel.
The world document was the People’ second gold of the day within the pool, as Katie Ledecky gained her record-breaking ninth simply a number of minutes earlier within the 800m freestyle.
U.S.’ Gretchen Walsh (R), U.S.’ Nic Fink (2nd R), U.S.’ Ryan Murphy (L) and U.S.’ Torri Huske (2nd L) rejoice after successful the ultimate of the blended 4x100m medley relay last swimming occasion in the course of the Paris 2024 Olympic Video games on the Paris La Protection Enviornment in Nanterre, west of Paris, on August 3, 2024. (SEBASTIEN BOZON/AFP through Getty Pictures)
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Sunday would be the last day of Olympic swimming, with 4 medals (girls’s 50m free, males’s 1500m free, males’s and ladies’s 4x100m medley) nonetheless left to be gained.
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