Watch Team USA Break 4x200m Free Relay Universiade Record – Race Video

2015 WORLD UNIVERSITY GAMES

Excerpt taken from our Day Four Finals Recap:

WOMEN’S 4×200 FREESTYLE RELAY – FINALS

Team USA closed the session by winning their third Gold medal of the day. The relay team of Chelsea Chenault (1:58.50), Hali Flickinger (1:57.77), Leah Smith (1:59.05), and Shannon Vreeland (1:58.56) combined for new World University Games record time of 7:53.88. The previous record of 7:55.02 was set in 2011 by Team USA. They were the only team this year under the 8 minute barrier.

China and Japan were in a tight race for the silver medal, but China ended up getting their hand on the wall first to secure the silver medal. They finished with a 8:01.09 to Japan’s 8:01.18.

Australia was just off of the podium with their time of 8:04.92, finishing nearly 12 seconds behind the Americans.

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The writer formerly known as "Troy Gennaro", better known as Tony Carroll, has been working with SwimSwam since April of 2013. Tony grew up in northern Indiana and started swimming in 2003 when his dad forced him to join the local swim team. Reluctantly, he joined on the condition that …

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