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 IOC Executive Board Member, Zimbabwe; Olympian, 2 Gold Medals, 4 Silver Medals, 1 Bronze Medal, and the medalists' bouquets were presented by Errol Clarke, FINA Bureau Member; Barbados.
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.