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IRVINE, California, August 21. THE U.S. had a bit of a scare as Japan's first two legs raced out to a big lead, but the U.S. backhalf had more than enough to win the men's 400 medley relay and give Team USA a relay sweep at the Pan Pacific Championships.
Junya Koga (53.87) and Kosuke Kitajima (59.18) put Japan in the lead, 1:53.05 to 1:54.36, over Aaron Peirsol (53.91) and Mark Gangloff (1:00.45) at the halfway mark, but Michael Phelps (50.58) made up the difference over Masayuki Kishida (52.07) and Nathan Adrian (47.54) put away the win over Takuro Fujii (48.78) in the anchor leg, 3:32.48 to 3:33.90.
Australia's Ashley Delaney, Christian Sprenger, Geoff Huegill and Kyle Richardson completed the podium with a third-place 3:35.55.
Brazil (3:36.86), Canada (3:37.01), New Zealand (3:38.69) and Korea (3:43.00) also fielded teams in the championship heat.
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August 21, 2010 anybody else notice that the aussie B relay beat their A relay in this event? nice depth! Submitted by: dakotarussell
August 21, 2010 It was not much of a scare if you do the math; we knew with Phelps and Adrian compared with the Japanese times, I had it worked out that if they swam their slowest times of the meet, we'd still have won by a second; we ended up winning by about a second and a half. Japan lacks a top butterflier and sprinter.
Oddly, the Australian B team beat their A team by about .8; Rickard outsplit Sprenger 59.9 to 1:01.2 on the breast and Magnuson ousplit Richardson, 48.4 to 48.9 on the free. If they'd put those two on the A relay, they would have beaten Japan for the silver. Alexandrov from USA B outsplit Gangloff on USA A, 1:00.41 to 1:00.45, but obviously that didn't make any difference. Submitted by: liquidassets
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