Swimming at the 2000 Summer Olympics – Men's 4 × 200 metre freestyle relay
| Men's 4 × 200 metre freestyle relay at the Games of the XXVII Olympiad | ||||||||||
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| Venue | Sydney International Aquatic Centre | |||||||||
| Dates | September 19, 2000 (heats & final) | |||||||||
| Competitors | 75 from 16 nations | |||||||||
| Winning time | 7:07.05 WR | |||||||||
| Medalists | ||||||||||
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| Swimming at the 2000 Summer Olympics | ||
|---|---|---|
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| Freestyle | ||
| 50 m | men | women |
| 100 m | men | women |
| 200 m | men | women |
| 400 m | men | women |
| 800 m | women | |
| 1500 m | men | |
| 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 | women |
The men's 4 × 200 metre freestyle relay event at the 2000 Summer Olympics took place on 19 September at the Sydney International Aquatic Centre in Sydney, Australia.[1]
After defeating the Americans to capture the 4 × 100 m freestyle relay title four days earlier, the Australians added another relay gold medal to their hardware in the event by the delight of a raucous home crowd. Dominating the race from start to finish, the Aussie foursome of Ian Thorpe (1:46.03), Michael Klim (1:46.40), Todd Pearson (1:47.36), and Bill Kirby (1:47.26) posted a sterling time of 7:07.05 to demolish a new world record and cut off the former Soviet Union's 1992 Olympic standard by almost four seconds.[2][3]
Team USA's Scott Goldblatt (1:49.66), Josh Davis (1:46.49), Jamie Rauch (1:48.74) sent Klete Keller to be an anchor for a second-place battle. Trailing behind the Dutch and the Italians with only 25 metres left, Keller fought off a tight challenge with a split of 1:47.75 to snatch the silver for the Americans in 7:12.64. Meanwhile, the Netherlands moved from fifth-place turns by Martijn Zuijdweg (1:49.60), Johan Kenkhuis (1:51.18), and Marcel Wouda (1:48.56) to race on the final stretch for the bronze in 7:12.70, after producing a superb anchor of 1:44.88, the fastest split of all time, set by Olympic champion Pieter van den Hoogenband.[4][5][6]
The Italian team of Andrea Beccari (1:49.67), Matteo Pelliciari (1:48.41), Emiliano Brembilla (1:48.92), and Massimiliano Rosolino (1:45.91) missed the podium with a fourth-place time of 7:12.91, holding off the fast-pacing Brits' Edward Sinclair (1:49.61), Paul Palmer (1:47.15), Marc Spackman (1:48.85), and James Salter (1:47.37) by seven-hundredths of a second (7:12.98).[7] Germany (7:20.19), Canada (7:21.92), and Russia (7:24.37) rounded out the championship finale.[6]
Records
[edit]Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows.
| World record |  Australia (AUS)Ian Thorpe (1:46.28) Bill Kirby (1:48.96) Grant Hackett (1:46.30) Michael Klim (1:47.25) |
7:08.79 | Sydney, Australia | 25 August 1999 | [8] |
| Olympic record |  Unified Team (EUN)Dmitry Lepikov (1:49.55) Vladimir Pyshnenko (1:46.58) Veniamin Tayanovich (1:48.99) Yevgeny Sadovyi (1:46.83) |
7:11.95 | Barcelona, Spain | 27 July 1992 | [8] |
The following new world and Olympic records were set during this competition.
| Date | Event | Name | Nationality | Time | Record |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 19 | Final | Ian Thorpe (1:46.03) Michael Klim (1:46.40) Todd Pearson (1:47.36) Bill Kirby (1:47.26) |
 Australia |
7:07.05 | WR |
Results
[edit]Heats
[edit]
Final
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Swimming schedule". Australian Broadcasting Corporation. 14 September 2000. Retrieved 14 May 2013.
- ^ Longman, Jere (20 September 2000). "Sydney 2000: Swimming; Malchow Lies Low, Then Rockets To the Wall". New York Times. Retrieved 8 June 2013.
- ^ Morrissey, Rick (20 September 2000). "It's Wet And Wild". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved 27 June 2013.
- ^ "Aussies rule relays". Sports Illustrated. CNN. 20 September 2000. Archived from the original on May 7, 2001. Retrieved 15 June 2013.
- ^ "Malchow sets Olympic record in 200 fly". ESPN. 19 September 2000. Retrieved 22 June 2013.
- ^ a b Whitten, Phillip (19 September 2000). "Olympic Day 4 Finals". Swimming World Magazine. Archived from the original on 30 September 2007. Retrieved 8 June 2013.
- ^ Lonsbrough, Anita (19 September 2000). "Swimming: Britons denied as Dutchman dominates". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 27 June 2013.
- ^ a b c "Sydney 2000: Swimming – Men's 4×200m Freestyle Relay Heats" (PDF). Sydney 2000. LA84 Foundation. pp. 343–344. Retrieved 27 June 2013.
