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The Americans, seeded second but favored to win their fourth-straight gold in this relay, will go with a team of\u00a0<strong>Conor Dwyer<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>Townley Haas<\/strong>,<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>Ryan Lochte\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0<strong>Michael Phelps<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Dwyer (3rd) and Haas (5th) each swam in the 200 free final last night, while Lochte earned a spot on this relay for the 13th straight year with a solid split in this afternoon&#8217;s prelims. Then there&#8217;s Phelps, who will anchor just more than an hour after he competes in the 200 fly final, going for a third gold medal in that event after previously winning in 2004 and 2008 and taking silver in 2012.<\/p>\n<p>The top-seeded British will be going with\u00a0<strong>Stephen Milne<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>Duncan Scott<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>Dan Wallace<\/strong> and\u00a0<strong>James Guy<\/strong>. Guy, the reigning World Champion in the 200 free and fourth-place finisher in the event last night, replaces prelims swimmer\u00a0<strong>Robbie Renwick<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Russia&#8217;s lineup includes\u00a0<strong>Danila Izotov<\/strong>, <strong>Aleksandr\u00a0Krasnykh<\/strong>, <strong>Nikita Lobintsev<\/strong> and <strong>Mikhail Dovgalyuk<\/strong>, while Japan leads off with\u00a0<strong>Kosuke Hagino\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0<strong>Paul Biedermann\u00a0<\/strong>anchors for Germany.<\/p>\n<p>Australia, which qualified seventh in prelims, will go with\u00a0<strong>Thomas Fraser-Holmes<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>David McKeon<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>Daniel Smith<\/strong> and 400 free gold medalist\u00a0<strong>Mack Horton<\/strong> on their squad.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Mens-800-free-relay.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">View the full start list here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One hour before the fourth night of finals at the Olympic Games, the lineups for the men&#8217;s 800 free relay final were submitted, and the full start list was released<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":216671,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,10],"tags":[50558,24850,17020,32014,6302,19138,31258,32647],"class_list":["post-217095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-world","tag-2016-rio-olympic-games","tag-conor-dwyer","tag-duncan-scott","tag-james-guy","tag-michael-phelps","tag-ryan-lochte","tag-thomas-fraser-holmes","tag-townley-haas"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.3 (Yoast SEO v24.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\r\n<title>Lineups for Men&#039;s 800 Free Relay Final Out; 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