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Swimming at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Men's 4 × 100 metre medley relay

Men's 4 × 100 metre medley relay
at the Games of the XXXI Olympiad
Venue Olympic Aquatics Stadium
Dates 12 August 2016 (heats)
13 August 2016 (final)
Competitors 74 from 16 nations
Teams 16
Winning time 3:27:95 OR
Medalists
1st, gold medalist(s)  United States
Ryan Murphy, Cody Miller, Michael Phelps, Nathan Adrian, David Plummer*, Kevin Cordes*, Tom Shields*, Caeleb Dressel*
2nd, silver medalist(s)  Great Britain
Chris Walker-Hebborn, Adam Peaty, James Guy, Duncan Scott
3rd, bronze medalist(s)  Australia
Mitch Larkin, Jake Packard, David Morgan, Kyle Chalmers, Cameron McEvoy*
*Indicates the swimmer only competed in the preliminary heats.
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1st, gold medalist(s)  United States
Ryan Murphy, Cody Miller, Michael Phelps, Nathan Adrian, David Plummer*, Kevin Cordes*, Tom Shields*, Caeleb Dressel*
2nd, silver medalist(s)  Great Britain
Chris Walker-Hebborn, Adam Peaty, James Guy, Duncan Scott
3rd, bronze medalist(s)  Australia
Mitch Larkin, Jake Packard, David Morgan, Kyle Chalmers, Cameron McEvoy*
*Indicates the swimmer only competed in the preliminary heats.

The men's 4 × 100 metre medley relay event at the 2016 Summer Olympics took place on 12–13 August at the Olympic Aquatics Stadium.

In his final race before retirement, Michael Phelps led the U.S. men's team to a record-breaking triumph in the medley relay at the Games, finishing an illustrious career as the most decorated Olympian of all-time with his twenty-third gold medal and twenty-eighth overall. The American foursome of Ryan Murphy (51.85), Cody Miller (59.03), Phelps (50.33), and Nathan Adrian (46.74) put together a historic ending with a gold-medal time and a new Olympic record of 3:27.95, shaving 1.39 seconds off the previous mark from Beijing 2008 on a since-banned, high-tech bodysuit. Moreover, Murphy erased the 2009 world backstroke record (51.94) from Aaron Peirsol by nine hundredths of a second on the lead-off leg.

World-record holder Adam Peaty threw down a fastest breaststroke split of 56.59 to deliver the British team of Chris Walker-Hebborn (53.68), James Guy (51.35), and Duncan Scott (47.62) a brief lead on the second leg, before the Americans edged them out to the front at the remaining laps of the race, leaving Great Britain with a silver medal and a national record in 3:29.24. Meanwhile, Kyle Chalmers produced a sterling freestyle anchor of 46.72 to give the Australian foursome of Mitch Larkin (53.19), Jake Packard (58.84), and David Morgan (51.18) the country's bronze-medal repeat from London 2012 with a final time of 3:29.93.

Outside the podium and the 3:30 club, the Russian quartet of Evgeny Rylov (52.90), Anton Chupkov (59.10), Aleksandr Sadovnikov (52.08), and Vladimir Morozov (47.22) picked up the fourth spot in 3:31.30, with Japan's Ryosuke Irie (53.46), Yasuhiro Koseki (58.65), Takuro Fujii (51.56), and Katsumi Nakamura (48.30) following them by 67-hundredths of a second to finish fifth in 3:31.97. Brazil's Guilherme Guido (54.23), João Gomes Júnior (58.59), Henrique Martins (51.52), and Marcelo Chierighini (48.50) enjoyed racing in front of the home crowd to take the sixth spot with a 3:32.84, while Germany (3:33.50), highlighted by breaststroker and 2015 world champion Marco Koch, rounded out the championship field. China was disqualified from the race, because of an early relay takeover by butterfly swimmer Li Zhuhao.


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