{"id":152217,"date":"2015-08-26T20:41:33","date_gmt":"2015-08-27T03:41:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=152217"},"modified":"2015-08-26T21:48:02","modified_gmt":"2015-08-27T04:48:02","slug":"brazil-blasts-to-first-in-mixed-400-free-relay-during-prelims-at-the-2015-fina-world-junior-championships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/brazil-blasts-to-first-in-mixed-400-free-relay-during-prelims-at-the-2015-fina-world-junior-championships\/","title":{"rendered":"Brazil Blasts To First in Mixed 400 Free Relay During Prelims at the 2015 FINA World Junior Championships"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brazil’s mixed relay team of\u00a0Pedro Spajari<\/b>\u00a0(M, 49.74),\u00a0Felipe Souza<\/strong>\u00a0(M, 49.44),\u00a0Rafaela Raurich<\/strong>\u00a0(W, 56.28) and\u00a0Maria Paula Heitmann<\/strong>\u00a0(W, 55.61)\u00a0topped the qualifiers list with a combined time of 3:31.07 in the mixed 400-meter free relay.<\/p>\n

Russia’s relay team consisting of\u00a0Aleksei Brianskii\u00a0<\/strong>(M, 50.56),\u00a0Evgenii Galchenko\u00a0<\/b>(M, 50.46),\u00a0Daria Mullakaeva\u00a0<\/strong>(W, 55.70) and\u00a0Daria\u00a0Ustinova\u00a0<\/strong>(W, 54.87)\u00a0took second overall in prelims with a time of 3:31.59.<\/p>\n

Canada’s\u00a0Javier Acevedo<\/strong>\u00a0(M, 50.62),\u00a0Markus Thormeyer<\/strong>\u00a0(M, 49.52),\u00a0Penny Oleksiak<\/strong>\u00a0(W, 56.35) and\u00a0Rebecca Smith\u00a0<\/strong>(W, 55.19)\u00a0posted a combined finishing time of 3:31.68 to claim the third place seed.<\/p>\n

The USA relay team of\u00a0Daniel Krueger<\/strong>\u00a0(M, 50.01),\u00a0Michael Jensen<\/strong>\u00a0(M, 49.99),\u00a0Kenisha Liu<\/strong>\u00a0(W, 55.75) and\u00a0Beata Nelson<\/strong>\u00a0(W, 56.33)\u00a0finished fourth overall in prelims after posting a time of 3:32.08.<\/p>\n

The mixed relay team of\u00a0Jack Cartwright<\/strong>\u00a0(M, 49.78),\u00a0Brayden McCarthy<\/strong>\u00a0(M, 50.66),\u00a0Gemma Cooney\u00a0<\/strong>(W, 55.65) and\u00a0Lucia Lassman\u00a0<\/strong>(W, 57.34)\u00a0from Australia finished fifth in prelims with a time of 3:33.43.<\/p>\n

Italy finished sixth overall with a time of 3:34.98.<\/p>\n

Germany took seventh with a time of 3:35.49, while China was eighth with a 3:37.73.<\/p>\n

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