Australia Will Have Lane Four in Women’s 4×200 Free Relay Final at World Swimming Championships; United States Seeded Second

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Brianna Throssell helped Australia get the top seed in the women's 4x200 free relay. Photo Courtesy: lan MacNicol

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FINA World Swimming Championships

Gwangju 2019

Day Five Heats (Women’s 4×200 Free Relay)

The Australians posted the top time in the women’s 4×200 free relay as they will have lane four in the final. The team of Leah Neale (1:58.30), Madison Wilson (1:56.46), Brianna Throssell (1:56.70) and Kiah Melverton (1:59.18) put up the fastest time at 7:50.64 with the United States sitting in second place.

Allison Schmitt (1:59.37), Gabby DeLoof (1:58.35), Melanie Margalis (1:56.37) and Leah Smith (1:57.49) got the US the second seed at 7:51.58.

Throssell scratched the 200 fly yesterday to focus on the mixed medley relay, which helped Australia win the gold medal at finals.

“I just thought it’d be better to scratch in case I had to be put in the mixed at night and focused on the 4×2,” Throssell said. “So it had to be made really quick because I only had 30 minutes to make up my mind but I don’t regret this decision.”

It is expected to come down to Australia and the United States for the gold medal tonight as the Australians are expected to bring in Ariarne Titmus and Emma McKeon while the Americans will bring in Katie Ledecky (if she’s healthy) and potentially Katie McLaughlin.

“(McKeon and Titmus) swam so well so far this meet so I think tonight will be a really good race,” Throssell said.

Russia will have lane three in the final as they were a 7:52.66 this morning. China (7:54.10) and Germany (7:54.30) were also able to make it through.

Canada (7:55.10) is expected to be competitive in the final with the additions of Taylor Ruck and Penny Oleksiak to the finals team. Kayla Sanchez and Emily Overholt are expected to be the other two unless Rebecca Smith gets the nod.

Hungary (7:55.40) and Japan (7:56.00) also qualified for the final.

Poland (8:01.70), New Zealand (8:03.28), Hong Kong (8:04.98) and Korea (8:08.38) also picked up Olympic qualification spots by placing in the top 12.

1	AUS	7:50.64	Neale, 1:58.30,	Wilson, 1:56.46,	Throssell, 1:56.70,	Melverton, 1:59.18
2	USA	7:51.58	Schmitt, 1:59.37,	DeLoof, 1:58.35,	Margalis, 1:56.37,	Smith, 1:57.49
3	RUS	7:52.66	Guzhenkova, 1:59.04,	Salamatina, 1:57.54,	Mullakeva, 1:58.74,	Andrusenko, 1:57.34
4	CHN	7:54.10	Ai, 1:58.83,	Dong, 1:59.72,	Zhang, 1:57.16,	Li, 1:58.39
5	GER	7:54.30	Foos, 1:58.81,	Gose, 1:57.51,	Pietruschka, 1:59.23,	Bruhn, 1:58.75
6	CAN	7:55.10	Sanchez, 1:58.88,	Overholt, 1:57.11,	Smith, 1:58.74,	O’Croinin, 2:00.37
7	HUN	7:55.40	Kesely, 1:58.82,	Verraszto, 2:00.37,	Jakabos, 1:59.60,	Hosszu, 1:56.61
8	JPN	7:56.00	Shirai, 1:59.68,	Igarashi, 1:59.17,	Aoki, 1:58.17,

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