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BARCELONA, Spain, August 4. THE 400 medley relays will conclude the competition at the FINA world championships, and the United States is favored to win the men’s and women’s races — at least on paper.<\/p>\n
The American women look to win their event by almost two seconds over Australia, but the USA men’s team could find themselves in five-team battle.<\/p>\n
Below are times calculated for each medley relay swimmer for the men’s teams representing the United States, Australia, Russia, France and Japan, and times for the American women and Australian women. Unless specified, the times listed are for swims done in the championship finals of the respective individual events at the world championships. These times do not account for relay takeovers on breaststroke, butterfly and freestyle, unless they were done in relays.<\/p>\n
USA men
\nMatt Grevers, backstroke: 52.93
\nKevin Cordes, breaststroke: 59.78 (semifinals)
\nRyan Lochte, butterfly: 51.48 (semifinals)
\nNathan Adrian, freestyle: 47.84
\nTotal time: 3:32.03<\/p>\n
France men
\nCamille Lacourt, backstroke: 53.51
\nGiacomo Perez-Dortona, breaststroke: 59.95
\nJeremy Stravius, butterfly: 51.96 (relay prelims)
\nFabien Gilot, freestyle: 46.90 (400 free relay final)
\nTotal time: 3:32.32<\/p>\n
Australia men
\nAshley Delaney, backstroke: 53.55
\nChristian Sprenger, breaststroke: 58.79
\nTom D’Orsogna, butterfly: 52.82 (100 fly prelims)
\nJames Magnussen, freestyle: 47.71
\nTotal time: 3:32.87<\/p>\n
Japan men
\nRyosuke Irie, backstroke: 53.29
\nKosuke Kitajima, breaststroke: 59.78 (semifinals)
\nTakuro Fujii, butterfly: 52.18 (relay prelims)
\nShinri Shioura, freestyle: 48.30 (400 medley relay prelims)
\nTotal time: 3:33.57<\/p>\n
Russia men
\nVladimir Morozov, backstroke: 54.67 (relay prelims)
\nKirill Strelnikov, breaststroke: 59.84 (relay)
\nEvgeny Korotyshkin, butterfly: 51.57 or Nikolay Skvortsov, butterfly: 51.43
\nAndrey Grechin, freestyle: 48.09 (relay final leadoff)
\nTotal time: 3:34.16<\/p>\n
USA women
\nMissy Franklin, backstroke: 58.42
\nJessica Hardy, breaststroke: 1:05.52
\nDana Vollmer, butterfly: 57.24
\nMegan Romano, freestyle: 52.60 (400 free relay final)
\nTotal time: 3:53.78<\/p>\n
Australia women
\nEmily Seebohm, backstroke: 58.79 (400 medley relay prelim leadoff)
\nSally Foster, breaststroke: 1:07.59 (semifinals)
\nAlicia Coutts, butterfly: 56.97
\nCate Campbell, freestyle: 52.33 (relay leadoff)
\nTotal time: 3:55.68<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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