{"id":325236,"date":"2018-08-11T04:47:19","date_gmt":"2018-08-11T11:47:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=325236"},"modified":"2018-08-11T07:32:09","modified_gmt":"2018-08-11T14:32:09","slug":"cate-campbell-drops-hammer-on-anchor-leg-australia-slays-4x100-free-relay-gold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/cate-campbell-drops-hammer-on-anchor-leg-australia-slays-4x100-free-relay-gold\/","title":{"rendered":"Cate Campbell Drops Hammer On Anchor Leg; Australia Slays 4×100 Free Relay Gold"},"content":{"rendered":"

Australia has had a very successful Pan Pacific Swimming Championships thus far in Tokyo.\u00a0Cate Campbell\u00a0<\/strong>has already won the\u00a0gold medal<\/a> in the 100 free, and swam the fastest split ever<\/a> on the end of the mixed medley relay. So with Campbell on the end of Australia’s 4×100 free relay, it was very unlikely they would get beat on Saturday night in Tokyo.<\/p>\n

The team of\u00a0Emily Seebohm\u00a0<\/strong>(54.56),\u00a0Shayna Jack\u00a0<\/strong>(53.10),\u00a0Emma McKeon<\/strong>\u00a0(52.56)\u00a0and Campbell (51.36) won the gold medal with a 3:31.58, beating their own meet record of 3:32.46 from the 2014 meet. They set the world record earlier this year at the Commonwealth Games in a 3:30.05. With the addition of\u00a0Bronte Campbell\u00a0<\/strong>next year at World Championships, they could go a 3:29.<\/p>\n

The United States finished with the silver medal at 3:33.45.\u00a0Mallory Comerford\u00a0<\/strong>(53.48),\u00a0Margo Geer\u00a0<\/strong>(53.59), Kelsi Dahlia\u00a0<\/strong>(53.59) and\u00a0Simone Manuel\u00a0<\/strong>(52.79) swam for the Americans as they had to run down Canada to do so.<\/p>\n

The Canadians got off to a flying start thanks to Taylor Ruck\u00a0<\/strong>leading off with a 52.85, not far off her 52.72 yesterday. Ruck left it up to\u00a0Kayla Sanchez\u00a0<\/strong>(53.11),\u00a0Rebecca Smith\u00a0<\/strong>(54.00) and Alexia Zevnik\u00a0<\/strong>(54.11) to try and pull the upset but they did not have the depth to match the Australians and Americans. They were bronze medal winners with a 3:34.07, not far off their National record of 3:32.89 from the Olympics. Canada did swim faster though at the Commonwealth Games in April.<\/p>\n

All three medalists were ahead of France’s winning time<\/a> from Europeans last week.<\/p>\n

Japan (3:36.93) and the Philippines (3:54.80) also swam in the championship final.<\/p>\n

2018 World Rankings:<\/h3>\n
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  1. Australia, 3:30.05<\/li>\n
  2. United States, 3:33.45<\/em><\/li>\n
  3. Canada, 3:33.92<\/li>\n
  4. France, 3:34.65<\/li>\n
  5. Netherlands, 3:34.77<\/li>\n
  6. Japan, 3:36.93<\/em><\/li>\n
  7. Denmark, 3:37.03<\/li>\n
  8. Great Britain, 3:37.26<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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