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Race videos are now available from the fourth night of finals at the 2015 World University Games in Gwangju, South Korea.
Watch Team USA crush the meet record in the women’s 800-meter free relay during a heat it won by more than seven seconds.
Original report:
Team USA demolished the field in the women’s 800-meter free relay en route to smashing the meet record in the event.
Leah Smith (1:58.50), Hali Flickinger (1:57.77), Chelsea Chenault (1:59.05) and Shannon Vreeland (1:58.56) scorched the Universiade mark with a time of 7:53.88. That performance cleared the 7:55.02 set by the U.S. back in 2011.
The Stars and Stripes won the finale by more than seven seconds as the exciting race was for silver.
China’s Wang Shijia (1:59.34), Zhang Jiaqi (2:00.26), Zhou Yilin (2:01.10) and Zhang Sishi (2:00.39) earned silver in 8:01.09.
Japan’s Aya Takano (2:00.78), Yui Yamane (1:59.57), Asami Chida (2:01.67) and Yasuko Miyamoto (1:59.16) picked up bronze in 8:01.18.
Australia (8:04.92), France (8:06.19), Italy (8:07.37), New Zealand (8:14.63) and Sweden (8:21.44) also competed in the finale.
2015 World University Games, Day 4 Finals – Results
SCHEDULED EVENTS
- Women’s 400 free finals
- Women’s 200 breast semis
- Women’s 200 IM finals
- Men’s 100 free semis
- Men’s 200 breast finals
- Women’s 100 fly semis
- Men’s 50 back finals
- Women’s 100 back finals
- Men’s 200 fly finals
- Women’s 800 free relay finals
LIVE STREAM
Depending on your location, either FISU.TV or ESPN3.