Swimming at the 2000 Summer Olympics – Women's 4 × 100 metre medley relay
| Women's 4 × 100 metre medley relay at the Games of the XXVII Olympiad
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| Venue | Sydney International Aquatic Centre | |||||||||
| Date | September 22, 2000 (heats) September 23, 2000 (final) |
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| Competitors | 81 from 18 nations | |||||||||
| Winning time | 3:58.30 WR | |||||||||
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 United States (USA)Barbara Bedford, Megan Quann, Jenny Thompson, Dara Torres, Courtney Shealy*, Staciana Stitts*, Ashley Tappin*, Amy Van Dyken* |
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 Australia (AUS)Dyana Calub, Leisel Jones, Petria Thomas, Susie O'Neill, Giaan Rooney*, Tarnee White*, Sarah Ryan* |
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*Indicates the swimmer only competed in the preliminary heats. |
Japan (JPN)
Mai Nakamura, Masami Tanaka, Junko Onishi, Sumika Minamoto
The women's 4×100 metre medley relay event at the 2000 Summer Olympics took place on 22–23 September at the Sydney International Aquatic Centre in Sydney, Australia.
The U.S. women's team established a new world record to defend their Olympic title in the event for the third consecutive streak. Leading the race from the start, Barbara Bedford (1:01.39), Megan Quann (1:06.29), Jenny Thompson (57.25), and Dara Torres (53.37) put together in a sterling time of 3:58.30 to clear the four-minute barrier and to smash China's six-year-old world record by 3.37 seconds. Capturing another relay title for the Americans, Thompson also picked up her eighth gold medal and tenth career as the nation's most successful female athlete in Olympic history.
The Aussie team of Dyana Calub (1:01.83), Leisel Jones (1:08.08), Petria Thomas (57.39), and Susie O'Neill (54.29) finished behind their greatest rivals by over three seconds, but powered home with the silver in an Oceanian record of 4:01.59. Meanwhile, Japan's Mai Nakamura (1:02.08), Masami Tanaka (1:08.65), Junko Onishi (58.72), and Sumika Minamoto (54.71) moved from fifth at the start to produce a spectacular fashion for the bronze in a national record of 4:04.16, holding off a mighty German team of Antje Buschschulte (1:02.05), Sylvia Gerasch (1:08.67), Franziska van Almsick (59.67), and Katrin Meissner (54.04) by 17-hundredths of a second, a time of 4:04.33.
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