Swimming at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Women's 4 × 100 metre freestyle relay

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Women's 4 × 100 metre freestyle relay
at the Games of the Olympiad
Venue Tokyo Aquatics Centre
Dates 24 July 2021 (heats)
25 July 2021 (final)
Competitors 68 from 15 nations
Teams 15
Winning time 3:29.69 WR
Medalists
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1st Bronte Campbell, Cate Campbell, Meg Harris, Emma McKeon, Mollie O'Callaghan*, Madison Wilson*  Australia
2nd Kayla Sanchez, Maggie MacNeil, Rebecca Smith, Penny Oleksiak, Taylor Ruck*  Canada
3rd Erika Brown, Abbey Weitzeil, Natalie Hinds, Simone Manuel, Catie DeLoof*, Allison Schmitt*, Olivia Smoliga*
*Indicates the swimmer only competed in the preliminary heats.		  United States
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Swimming at the
2020 Summer Olympics
Sample picture of the event (unofficial)
Qualification
Freestyle
50 m men women
100 m men women
200 m men women
400 m men women
800 m men women
1500 m men women
Backstroke
100 m men women
200 m men women
Breaststroke
100 m men women
200 m men women
Butterfly
100 m men women
200 m men women
Individual medley
200 m men women
400 m men women
Freestyle relay
4×100 m men women
4×200 m men women
Medley relay
4×100 m men mixed women
Marathon
10 km men women

The women's 4 × 100 metre freestyle relay event at the 2020 Summer Olympics will be held in 2021 at the Tokyo Aquatics Centre.[1] It will be the event's twenty-fifth appearance at the Olympics, having been held at every edition since 1912.

Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows.

World record
3:30.05 Gold Coast, Australia 5 April 2018 [2]
Olympic record
3:30.65 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 6 August 2016 [3][4]

The following records were established during the competition:

Date Event Name Nationality Time Record
July 25 Final Bronte Campbell (53.01)
Meg Harris (53.09)
Emma McKeon (51.35)
Cate Campbell (52.24)		  Australia 3:29.69 WR, OR

Qualification

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Main article: Swimming at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Qualification

The top 12 teams in this event at the 2019 World Aquatics Championships qualified for the Olympics. An additional 4 teams will qualify through having the fastest times at approved qualifying events during the qualifying period (1 March 2019 to 30 May 2020).[5]

Competition format

The competition consists of two rounds: heats and a final. The relay teams with the best 8 times in the heats advance to the final. Swim-offs are used as necessary to break ties for advancement to the next round.[6]

Schedule

All times are Japan Standard Time (UTC+9)[1]

Date Time Round
24 July 20:43 Heats
25 July 11:45 Final

Results

Heats

The relay teams with the top 8 times, regardless of heat, advance to the final.[7]

Rank Heat Lane Nation Swimmers Time Notes
1 2 4  Australia Mollie O'Callaghan (53.08)
Meg Harris (52.73)
Madison Wilson (53.10)
Bronte Campbell (52.82)		 3:31.73 Q
2 2 3  Netherlands Kim Busch (54.79)
Ranomi Kromowidjojo (52.50)
Marrit Steenbergen (54.32)
Femke Heemskerk (51.90)		 3:33.51 Q
3 2 5  Canada Kayla Sanchez (53.45)
Taylor Ruck (54.16)
Rebecca Smith (53.73)
Penny Oleksiak (52.38)		 3:33.72 Q
4 1 5  Great Britain Lucy Hope (54.37)
Anna Hopkin (52.65)
Abbie Wood (53.55)
Freya Anderson (53.46)		 3:34.03 Q, NR
5 1 4  United States Olivia Smoliga (54.06)
Catie DeLoof (53.42)
Allison Schmitt (54.04)
Natalie Hinds (53.28)		 3:34.80 Q
6 2 6  China Cheng Yujie (54.03)
Zhu Menghui (53.48)
Ai Yanhan (54.33)
Wu Qingfeng (53.23)		 3:35.07 Q, AS
7 1 2  Denmark Pernille Blume (53.15)
Signe Bro (53.19)
Julie Kepp Jensen (54.72)
Jeanette Ottesen (54.50)		 3:35.56 Q, NR
8 1 6  Sweden Sarah Sjöström (52.95)
Michelle Coleman (53.44)
Louise Hansson (53.68)
Sara Junevik (55.86)		 3:35.93 Q
9 2 2  Japan Chihiro Igarashi (54.10)
Rikako Ikee (53.63)
Natsumi Sakai (54.70)
Rika Omoto (53.77)		 3:36.20
10 1 3  France Béryl Gastaldello (54.28)
Charlotte Bonnet (53.05)
Margaux Fabre (54.83)
Anouchka Martin (54.45)		 3:36.61
11 2 1  Republic of China Daria S. Ustinova (54.75)
Arina Surkova (54.54)
Elizaveta Klevanovich (54.57)
Veronika Andrusenko (54.39)		 3:38.25
12 1 7  Brazil Larissa Oliveira (54.79)
Ana Carolina Vieira (54.92)
Etiene Medeiros (55.42)
Stephanie Balduccini (54.06)		 3:39.19
13 2 7  Germany Lisa Höpink (54.83)
Annika Bruhn (54.33)
Marie Pietruschka (55.31)
Hannah Küchler (54.86)		 3:39.33
14 2 8  Czech Republic Barbora Seemanová (53.86)
Kristýna Horská (56.72)
Barbora Janíčková (55.89)
Anika Apostalon (55.93)		 3:42.40
15 1 1  Hong Kong Tam Hoi Lam (55.58)
Camille Cheng (54.61)
Stephanie Au (56.96)
Ho Nam Wai (56.37)		 3:43.52

Final

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Rank Lane Nation Swimmers Time Notes
1st 4  Australia Bronte Campbell (53.01)
Meg Harris (53.09)
Emma McKeon (51.35)
Cate Campbell (52.24)		 3:29.69 WR
2nd 3  Canada Kayla Sanchez (53.42)
Margaret MacNeil (53.47)
Rebecca Smith (53.63)
Penny Oleksiak (52.26)		 3:32.78
3rd 2  United States Erika Brown (54.02)
Abbey Weitzeil (52.68)
Natalie Hinds (53.15)
Simone Manuel (52.96)		 3:32.81
4 5  Netherlands Kim Busch (54.64)
Ranomi Kromowidjojo (52.87)
Kira Toussaint (54.14)
Femke Heemskerk (52.05)		 3:33.70
5 6  Great Britain Anna Hopkin (53.16)
Abbie Wood (53.23)
Lucy Hope (54.73)
Freya Anderson (52.84)		 3:33.96 NR
6 8  Sweden Sarah Sjöström (52.62) OR
Michelle Coleman (53.62)
Louise Hansson (53.51)
Sophie Hansson (54.94)		 3:34.69
7 7  China Cheng Yujie (54.10)
Zhu Menghui (53.54)
Ai Yanhan (54.22)
Wu Qingfeng (52.90)		 3:34.76 AS
8 1  Denmark Pernille Blume (53.07)
Signe Bro (53.78)
Julie Kepp Jensen (54.46)
Jeanette Ottesen (54.39)		 3:35.70

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