Australia won gold and set an Olympic record in the women’s 4x100m medley relay final on Sunday at the Tokyo Olympics, capping a record-breaking Games for Emma McKeon.
The Aussie team – Kaylee McKeown, Chelsea Hodges, McKeon and Cate Campbell – clocked 3:51.60 to beat the USA. Canada was third.
Campbell swam an epic final freestyle leg and it capped a stunning final day for McKeon, who had already won the 50m freestyle in an Olympic record time.
It was McKeon’s fourth gold medal of the Tokyo Olympics, a feat that has never before been achieved by an Australian at a single Games.
She surpassed greats like Murray Rose, Ian Thorpe, Shane Gould, Petria Thomas, Stephanie Rice and Betty Cuthbert (all three).
She has 11 Olympic medals in total, an Australian record. She matched Thorpe’s Australian record of five Olympic swimming gold medals, the most by an Aussie in any sport, and surpassed the four won by Dawn Fraser.
It was a third gold of the Games for McKeown and a second for Campbell.Australia has now won nine gold medals in the pool at Tokyo.
That makes it our greatest Olympic swimming haul, home or away, outdoing Melbourne 1956.
McKeon became the first female swimmer to win seven medals at a single Olympics, breaking a tie with Germany’s Kristin Otto and American Natalie Coughlin.
With No.7, she also tied Soviet gymnast Maria Gorokhovskaya (Helsinki 1952) for the most medals at a single Games by any female athlete.
The women’s 4x100m medley relay won Australia’s 12th gold medal of the Tokyo Olympics.
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