Swimming at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Mixed 4 × 100 metre medley relay
Mixed 4 × 100 metre medley relay at the Games of the XXXII Olympiad | |||||||||||||
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Venue | Tokyo Aquatics Centre | ||||||||||||
Dates | 29 July 2021 (heats) 31 July 2021 (final) | ||||||||||||
Competitors | 76 from 16 nations | ||||||||||||
Teams | 16 | ||||||||||||
Winning time | 3:37.58 WR | ||||||||||||
Medalists | |||||||||||||
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Swimming at the 2020 Summer Olympics | |||
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Qualification | |||
Freestyle | |||
50 m | men | women | |
100 m | men | women | |
200 m | men | women | |
400 m | men | women | |
800 m | men | women | |
1500 m | men | women | |
Backstroke | |||
100 m | men | women | |
200 m | men | women | |
Breaststroke | |||
100 m | men | women | |
200 m | men | women | |
Butterfly | |||
100 m | men | women | |
200 m | men | women | |
Individual medley | |||
200 m | men | women | |
400 m | men | women | |
Freestyle relay | |||
4 × 100 m | men | women | |
4 × 200 m | men | women | |
Medley relay | |||
4 × 100 m | men | mixed | women |
Marathon | |||
10 km | men | women | |
The mixed 4 × 100 metre medley relay event at the 2020 Summer Olympics was held in 2021 at the Tokyo Aquatics Centre.[1] These Games marked the first time to feature a mixed-gender swimming event in the program. Each 4-person team features two male and two female swimmers in no particular order.
The medals for the competition were presented by Kirsty Coventry and the medalists' bouquets were presented by Errol Clarke.
Records[edit]
Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows.
World record | China (CHN) Xu Jiayu (52.45) Yan Zibei (57.96) Zhang Yufei (55.32) Yang Junxuan (52.68) |
3:38.41 | Qingdao, China | 1 October 2020 | [2] |
Olympic record | Inaugural event | — | — | — | — |
The following records were established during the competition:
Date | Event | Name | Nation | Time | Record |
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29 July | Heat 1 |
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Great Britain | 3:38.75 | OR |
31 July | Final |
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Great Britain | 3:37.58 | WR, OR |
Qualification[edit]
The top 12 teams in this event at the 2019 World Aquatics Championships qualified for the Olympics. An additional 4 teams will qualify through having the fastest times at approved qualifying events during the qualifying period (1 March 2019 to 30 May 2020).[3]
Race rules[edit]
Each team has two male and two female swimmers. Each team decides whether a man or a woman will swim a specific stroke, which means men versus women is possible in a specific stroke, as happened in heats and in finals. Strokes order are in the same order as in a traditional medley race–backstroke, breaststroke, butterfly and freestyle.[4]
The competition consists of two rounds: heats and a final. The relay teams with the best 8 times in the heats advance to the final. Swim-offs are used as necessary to break ties for advancement to the next round.
Schedule[edit]
All times are Japan Standard Time (UTC+9)[1]
Date | Time | Round |
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29 July | 20:21 | Heats |
31 July | 11:43 | Final |
Results[edit]
Heats[edit]
The relay teams with the top 8 times, regardless of heat, advanced to the final.[5]
Final[edit]
Rank | Lane | Nation | Swimmers | Time | Notes |
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4 | Great Britain | Kathleen Dawson (58.80) Adam Peaty (56.78) James Guy (50.00) Anna Hopkin (52.00) |
3:37.58 | WR | |
3 | China | Xu Jiayu (52.56) Yan Zibei (58.11) Zhang Yufei (55.48) Yang Junxuan (52.71) |
3:38.86 | ||
6 | Australia | Kaylee McKeown (58.14) Zac Stubblety-Cook (58.82) Matthew Temple (50.26) Emma McKeon (51.73) |
3:38.95 | ||
4 | 2 | Italy | Thomas Ceccon (52.23) Nicolò Martinenghi (57.73) Elena Di Liddo (56.62) Federica Pellegrini (52.70) |
3:39.28 | NR |
5 | 5 | United States | Ryan Murphy (52.23) Lydia Jacoby (1:05.09) Torri Huske (56.27) Caeleb Dressel (46.99) |
3:40.58 | |
6 | 7 | Netherlands | Kira Toussaint (59.45) Arno Kamminga (57.89) Nyls Korstanje (51.34) Femke Heemskerk (52.57) |
3:41.25 | NR |
7 | 1 | ROC | Evgeny Rylov (52.79) Kirill Prigoda (59.15) Svetlana Chimrova (56.95) Maria Kameneva (53.56) |
3:42.45 | |
8 | 8 | Israel | Anastasia Gorbenko (59.55) Itay Goldfaden (59.86) Gal Cohen Groumi (51.58) Andrea Murez (53.78) |
3:44.77 |
References[edit]
- ^ a b "Swimming - Mixed 4 x 100m Medley Relay Schedule". Olympics.com. Tokyo 2020. Archived from the original on 24 August 2021. Retrieved 27 July 2021.
- ^ "CHINA TAKES DOWN MIXED MEDLEY WORLD RECORD". Swimswam.
- ^ "Tokyo 2020 – FINA Swimming Qualification System" (PDF). Tokyo 2020. FINA. Retrieved 30 January 2020.
- ^ "Mixed Relays Make Olympic Debuts in Swimming and Track". Wall Street Journal. 30 July 2021.
- ^ "Heats results" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 August 2021. Retrieved 29 July 2021.
- ^ "Final results" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 August 2021. Retrieved 31 July 2021.