{"id":314718,"date":"2025-08-03T14:02:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-03T14:02:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/314718\/"},"modified":"2025-08-03T14:02:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-03T14:02:12","slug":"world-aquatics-championships-united-states-sets-world-record-in-womens-4x100-medley-relay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/314718\/","title":{"rendered":"World Aquatics Championships: United States sets world record in women\u2019s 4&#215;100 medley relay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The United States smashed its own world record in winning the women\u2019s 4x100m medley relay world title in Singapore on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The Americans were victorious in 3min 49.34sec, beating their previous record of 3:49.63 from the Paris Olympics a year ago.<\/p>\n<p>Australia finished second in 3:52.67, with China third in 3:54.77.<\/p>\n<p>The American team of Regan Smith, Kate Douglass, Gretchen Walsh, and Torri Huske looked dominant from the off, and it wasn\u2019t much of a surprise when Huske touched the wall to seal the win.<\/p>\n<p><b>READ: <a href=\"https:\/\/sportstar.thehindu.com\/swimming\/katie-ledecky-interview-comments-gold-medal-800-metre-freestyle-mcintosh-world-swimming-championship-2025\/article69887476.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">World Swimming Championship: I don\u2019t lose 800 metre, says Ledecky after another gold medal<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is the best way to end the meet, and I felt we had such a good opportunity with this stacked group of women closing it out in a relay like this,\u201d said Walsh.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re going to put it all in the pool and we\u2019re going to leave Singapore with a smile on our face.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The American mixed 4x100m freestyle relay team also set a new world record on the way to gold the previous night.<\/p>\n<p>Huske said that she knew her team also had a chance of cracking the 4x100m medley mark.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is my favourite relay and there\u2019s no better way to end a meet, so I\u2019m really happy,\u201d said Huske.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The United States smashed its own world record in winning the women\u2019s 4x100m medley relay world title in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":314719,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5311],"tags":[114689,114687,49,114688,978,659],"class_list":{"0":"post-314718","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"tag-4x100-medley-relay-swimming","9":"tag-swimming-world-record","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-united-states-aquatics-championship","12":"tag-us","13":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114965207041187445","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=314718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314718\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/314719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}