{"id":404596,"date":"2024-06-20T03:39:41","date_gmt":"2024-06-20T03:39:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=404596"},"modified":"2024-06-20T05:05:57","modified_gmt":"2024-06-20T05:05:57","slug":"aussie-golden-girls-dealt-major-pre-olympic-relay-scare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=404596","title":{"rendered":"Aussie golden girls dealt major pre-Olympic relay scare"},"content":{"rendered":"

Australia's pursuit of a fourth straight Olympic<\/a> gold medal in the women's 4x100m freestyle relay is all of a sudden not looking quite so promising, following rapid swims at the United States' Paris 2024<\/a> trials.<\/p>\n

Australia won the women's 4x100m freestyle relay at London 2012, Rio 2016 and Tokyo 2020, leaving the Americans to pick up either silver or bronze.<\/p>\n

And at the world championships in Fukuoka last year, \ufeffan Australian women's 4x100m freestyle team won gold in a world record time of three minutes and 27.96 seconds (3:27.96). The USA trailed home in 3:31.93, collecting silver.<\/p>\n

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But at the USA trials in Indianapolis on Thursday morning (AEST), Kate Douglass, Torrie Huske, Gretchen Walsh and Simone Manuel gave Australia's 100m freestyle speedsters a major scare a month out from the Paris Games.<\/p>\n

Douglass took victory in the women's 100m freestyle final with a time of 52.56 seconds, ahead of Huske\ufeff (52.93), Walsh (53.13) and Manuel (53.25), making for a combined time of 3:31.87.<\/p>\n

\"From<\/p>\n

At Australia's trials in Brisbane last week, Mollie O'Callaghan won the women's 100m freestyle final with a time of \ufeff52.33<\/a>, ahead of Shayna Jack (52.72), Meg Harris (52.97) and Bronte Campbell (53.10), making for a joint time of 3:31.12.<\/p>\n

The Americans' combined time is just 0.75 of a second slower than their rivals from Down Under.<\/p>\n

"\ufeffI'm excited to be united on one front for Team USA in a couple of weeks," Walsh said on the NBC broadcast after the women's 100m freestyle final at the USA trials.<\/p>\n

"\ufeffWe're all great competitors but we're greater than the sum of our parts."<\/p>\n

The results of the USA's women's 200m freestyle swimmers compare far less favourably than their 100m freestyle\ufeff results.<\/p>\n

Katie Ledecky won the trials final on Tuesday morning (AEST) in 1:55.22, as Claire Weinstein clocked 1:56.18, Paige Madden 1:56.36 and Erin Gemmel 1:56.75, making for an accumulative time of 7:44.51.<\/p>\n

\"Titmus<\/p>\n

In the women's 200m freestyle final at Australia's trials, Ariarne Titmus posted 1:52.23, O'Callaghan 1:52.48, Lani Pallister 1:55.57 and Brianna Throssell 1:55.74, resulting in a combined time of 7:36.02 \u2014 more than eight seconds faster than their American counterparts.<\/p>\n

O'Callaghan held the women's 200m freestyle world record heading into the race, and although the 20-year-old phenom broke that mark at Brisbane Aquatic Centre, Titmus went even quicker to steal the world record from her clubmate<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\ufeffAustralia also won the women's 4x200m freestyle in world record time at last year's world championships, stunning its rivals with a time of 7:37.50. The USA finished second in 7:41.38.<\/p>\n

Australia is vying to win the women's 4x200m freestyle at an Olympic Games for the first time since Beijing 2008.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Australia's pursuit of a fourth straight Olympic gold medal in the women's 4x100m freestyle relay is all of a sudden not looking quite so promising, […]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":404599,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404596"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=404596"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":404601,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404596\/revisions\/404601"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/404599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=404596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=404596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=404596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}