Swimming at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Men's 4 × 100 metre freestyle relay
| Men's 4 × 100 metre freestyle relay at the Games of the XXX Olympiad
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| Venue | London Aquatics Centre | |||||||||
| Dates | July 29, 2012 (heats & final) | |||||||||
| Competitors | 80 from 15 nations | |||||||||
| Winning time | 3:09.93 | |||||||||
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 France (FRA)Amaury Leveaux, Fabien Gilot, Clément Lefert, Yannick Agnel, Alain Bernard*, Jérémy Stravius* |
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 United States (USA)Nathan Adrian, Michael Phelps, Cullen Jones, Ryan Lochte, Jimmy Feigen*, Matt Grevers*, Ricky Berens*, Jason Lezak* |
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*Indicates the swimmer only competed in the preliminary heats. |
Russia (RUS)
Andrey Grechin, Nikita Lobintsev, Vladimir Morozov, Danila Izotov, Yevgeny Lagunov*, Sergey Fesikov*
The men's 4 × 100 metre freestyle relay event at the 2012 Summer Olympics took place on 29 July at the London Aquatics Centre in London, United Kingdom.
Four years after winning the silver medal in this event, the French men's team won gold for the first time as they edged out the Americans and the Australians with the help of a sterling anchor leg from Yannick Agnel. Trailing behind by 0.55 seconds at the final exchange, Agnel blistered the field with a remarkable split of 46.74 to deliver the foursome of Amaury Leveaux (48.13), Fabien Gilot (47.67), and Clément Lefert (47.39) a gold-medal time in 3:09.93. Meanwhile, the U.S. team of Nathan Adrian (47.89), Michael Phelps (47.15), and Cullen Jones (47.60) handed Ryan Lochte the anchor duties to maintain their lead, but Lochte's split of 47.74 was just a full second behind Agnel's anchor that sealed a stunning triumph for the French, leaving the U.S. with a silver medal in 3:10.38. With the second-place finish, Phelps also earned his first-ever Olympic silver medal to raise his overall tally to seventeen, (including 14 gold and 2 bronze), bringing him a single step closer to the all-time record held by Larisa Latynina.
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