Canada Upends USA With National Record in 400 Free Relay at Pan American Games

Jul 14, 2015; Toronto, Ontario, CAN; Sandrine Mainville , Katerine Savard and Michelle Williams of Canada celebrate after winning the women's 4x100m freestyle relay final during the 2015 Pan Am Games at Pan Am Aquatics UTS Centre and Field House. Mandatory Credit: Erich Schlegel-USA TODAY Sports

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Canada remained on fire as the locals relegated Team USA to second for only the second time in Pan American Games history in the women’s 400-meter free relay.

The foursome of Sandrine Mainville (54.43), Michelle Williams (54.42), Katerine Savard (54.53) and Chantal Van Landeghem (53.42) overcame a battle with the Stars and Stripes to win in a Pan American Games record time of 3:36.80.

That performance downed the preliminary mark of 3:37.28 set by Team USA this morning. It also broke the Canadian record of 3:37.09 from 2013.

USA’s Allison Schmitt (54.46), Amanda Weir (54.79), Madison Kennedy (53.89) and Natalie Coughlin (53.87) settled for silver with a time of 3:37.01 just .21 seconds back, and under their prelim time.

Brazil’s Larissa Martins (54.67), Graciele Herrmann (54.72), Etiene Medeiros (53.99) and Daynara De Paula (54.01) took bronze in 3:37.39.

Venezuela (3:46.24), Colombia (3:47.30), Mexico (3:47.65), Peru (3:52.430 and Jamaica (3:56.01) also competed.

SCHEDULED EVENTS

Women’s 100 free
Men’s 100 free
Women’s 200 fly
Men’s 200 fly
Women’s 400 free relay
Men’s 400 free relay

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