The team of Mollie O’Callaghan, Lani Pallister, Brianna Throssell and Ariarne Titmus brought it home for the Dolphins’ fifth gold medal in Paris.
For 16 years, Australia have tried and failed to win a women’s 4x200m freestyle gold. Since the last, at Beijing 2008, the medals have been silver, silver and bronze respectively.
But when your heat time was almost seven seconds faster than the rest of the field, and you are subbing in the individual 200m freestyle gold and silver medallists just for the final, the odds appear to be heavily in your favour.And so it came to pass on Friday morning AEST, when Mollie O’Callaghan led off the blocks and Ariarne Titmus anchored the quartet with style to secure Australia’s fifth gold medal in the pool.
Lani Pallister, who two days ago sacrificed her 1500m spot after testing positive for COVID-19, and Brianna Throssell kept up the momentum to clock an Olympic-record 7:38.08. It was the second-fastest of all time in this event.The result rights the disappointment of a missed opportunity in Tokyo three years ago, and builds on the world record the team set at the 2022 Commonwealth Games, and then again at the 2023 world championships in Fukuoka.
That world record of 7:37.50 did not fall at La Défense Arena, and there was, in the end, very little between the Dolphins and the second-placed United States and third-placed China, who pushed the Dolphins the entire way home. But Titmus gained back what Katie Ledecky had taken in the third leg, and broke free to claim gold by 2.78 seconds.
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