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The men's 4 × 100 metre medley relay event at the 2008 Olympic Games took place on 15 and 17 August at the Beijing National Aquatics Center in Beijing, China. [1]Since the event's inception in 1960, the U.S. men's team dominated the race from the start to demolish a new world record, to defend their title, and most importantly, to wrap up the greatest performance in Olympic history for ...
South Africa returned all four members of that 2004 relay team to these Olympics, and they even bettered their previous world-record time by 0.51 s, yet they finished a distant 7th place in Beijing. In fact, all 8 teams swimming in the 2008 finals swam faster than South Africa's gold medal swim of 2004.
The women's 4 × 100 metre medley relay event at the 2008 Olympic Games took place on 15 and 17 August at the Beijing National Aquatics Center in Beijing, China. [ 1 ] Dominating the race from the start, the Aussie women's relay team solidified their triumph to destroy the world record and to defend the Olympic title over their American rivals ...
The United States kept it's Olympic unbeaten streak alive in the men's 4x100 medley relay. U.S. men set world record to keep Olympic unbeaten streak alive in 4x100 medley relay [Video] Skip to ...
The men's 4 × 100 metre relay event at the 2008 Olympic Games took place on 21 and 22 August at the Beijing National Stadium. [1] There were 16 NOCs competing at this event. These 16 NOCs were selected by the average of the two best marks at the qualifying period. Australia was 14th but withdrew and the Netherlands was invited instead. [2]
She won a silver medal in the preliminary heats of the 4×100 m medley relay at the 2006 World Short-Course Swimming Championships in Shanghai. She won another silver medal in the 4×100-meter medley relay at the 2007 Summer Universiade in Bangkok. [8] After her attempt to make the Olympic team in 2012, she retired from competitive swimming. [7]
The schedule of swimming events at the 2008 Summer Olympics occurred in two segments: pools events : evening of August 9 through the morning of August 17, at the " Water Cube " open water events : August 20 and 21 at Shunyi Olympic Rowing-Canoeing Park (held between rowing events on the Olympic Rowing course).
The women's 4 × 100 metre freestyle relay event at the 2008 Olympic Games took place on 9–10 August at the Beijing National Aquatics Center in Beijing, China. [1]The Dutch women reinforced their claim to become the strongest team in the world with a magnificent triumph over the Aussies and the Americans in the event.