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Torri Huske, Regan Smith secure world record, gold medal for Team USA in 4x100 medley

On3 imageby:Dan Morrison•08/04/24•

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Torri Huske, USA
Torri Huske, USA - © Rob Schumacher-USA TODAY Sports

Team USA came into the Women’s 4×100 meter medley as the favorite to win gold. That’s exactly what the Americans did too, led by Torri Huske, Regan Smith, Lilly King, and Gretchen Walsh, setting a world record for the event in the process

This race sees different swimmers swim 100 meters of the four different competitive strokes, the backstroke, breaststroke, butterfly, and freestyle. In the overall time, Team USA set the world record with a time of 3:49.63.

You can watch Team USA set a world record and win the gold medal in the women’s 4×100 medley, here:

With that, the USA won its eighth gold medal in swimming at the Paris Olympics. That put it one ahead of Australia, who has long been a rival of the Americans in swimming. It was also the Australians who ended up taking silver in the Women’s 4×100 meter medley. The Americans won 28 total medals in swimming, which was the most of any nation.

First into the pool was Regan Smith on the backstroke. She established a short lead, which Lilly King then built on in the breaststroke. From there, Gretchen Walsh was dominant in the butterfly. By the time Torri Huske was in the pool for the freestyle final leg, it wasn’t a question of whether or not the Americans would win gold, but if they’d break the world record. They, of course, did.

For King, this was her final Olympic race. Over the course of her career, she won five Olympic medals, including two gold medals, going into the medley. With the win, she capped off a phenomenal career with another gold medal at the Olympics.

Torri Huske has had an excellent Olympics. In her second appearance at the games after going to the Tokyo Olympics, she won five gold medals. That includes three gold medals and gives her a lifetime medal count of six. Similarly, Regan Smith is having a massive Olympics in her second appearance. After winning three medals in Tokyo, Smith has added five more, including two gold medals.

For her part, Gretchen Walsh has four medals of her own at the 2024 Olympics in Paris.

The women’s 4×100 meter medley was the final swim of the Paris Olympics. With the gold medal, Team USA was able to clinch the record for most gold medals in swimming as well as the most medals won overall in the sport.