Swimming at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Men's 4 × 100 metre medley relay
| Men's 4×100 metre medley relay at the Games of the XXIX Olympiad
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| Venue | Beijing National Aquatics Center | |||||||||
| Date | August 15, 2008 (heats) August 17, 2008 (final) |
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| Competitors | 75 from 16 nations | |||||||||
| Winning time | 3:29.34 WR | |||||||||
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 United States (USA)Aaron Peirsol, Brendan Hansen, Michael Phelps, Jason Lezak, Matt Grevers*, Mark Gangloff*, Ian Crocker*, Garrett Weber-Gale* |
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 Australia (AUS)Hayden Stoeckel, Brenton Rickard, Andrew Lauterstein, Eamon Sullivan, Ashley Delaney*, Christian Sprenger*, Adam Pine*, Matt Targett* |
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*Indicates the swimmer only competed in the preliminary heats. |
Japan (JPN)
Junichi Miyashita, Kosuke Kitajima, Takuro Fujii, Hisayoshi Sato
The men's 4 × 100 metre medley relay event at the 2008 Olympic Games took place on 15 and 17 August at the Beijing National Aquatics Center in Beijing, China.
Since the event's inception in 1960, the U.S. men's team dominated the race from the start to demolish a new world record, to defend their title, and most importantly, to wrap up the greatest performance in Olympic history for Michael Phelps. Joining Aaron Peirsol (53.16), Brendan Hansen (59.37), and Jason Lezak (46.76), Phelps delivered a butterfly split of 50.15 to maintain a leading pace and claim a historic gold for the Americans with a world-record time of 3:29.34, shaving 1.34 seconds off their standard from Athens in 2004. By capturing his eighth gold, Phelps also eclipsed Mark Spitz's 1972 record of seven for the most in a single Games, raising his career total to 16 medals (14 golds and 2 bronze).
The Aussie foursome of Hayden Stoeckel (53.80), Brenton Rickard (58.56), Andrew Lauterstein (51.03), and Eamon Sullivan (46.65) trailed behind their greatest rivals in the pool by exactly seven-tenths of a second (0.70), but took home an admirable silver in an Oceanian record of 3:30.04. Meanwhile, Japan's Kosuke Kitajima fueled the field on the breaststroke leg with a terrific split of 58.07 to deliver the foursome of Junichi Miyashita (53.87), Takuro Fujii (50.89), and Hisayoshi Sato (48.35) a bronze-medal time in 3:31.18, worthy enough for an Asian record.
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