2016 Rio Olympic Games
- Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- Swimming: August 6-13
- Olympic Aquatics Stadium, Barra Olympic Park, Rio de Janeiro
- Prelims – 9:00 a.m/12:00 p.m PST/EST (1:00 p.m local), Finals – 6:00 p.m/9:00 p.m PST/EST (10:00 p.m local)
- SwimSwam previews
- Day 8 Schedule & Results
- Live Stream (NBC)
Americans may have the most relay experience thanks to the NCAA, but they chose not to use it in the women’s 4×100 medley relay on Saturday night in Rio. Team USA was the most conservative of all the eight teams in the final, with an add-up total reaction time of 1.78 seconds. The second-most conservative quartet was Denmark, with 1.66 seconds, followed by Russia with 1.52.
Canada’s Penny Oleksiak was the most daring; her reaction time registered -0.01. Federica Pellegrini was next with a 0.02 reaction time as the anchor for Italy.
| Team | Swimmer | Reaction | Total |
| USA | BAKER Kathleen | 0.62 | 1.78 |
| KING Lilly | 0.50 | ||
| VOLLMER Dana | 0.24 | ||
| MANUEL Simone | 0.42 | ||
| Australia | SEEBOHM Emily | 0.61 | 1.51 |
| McKEOWN Taylor | 0.22 | ||
| McKEON Emma | 0.37 | ||
| CAMPBELL Cate | 0.31 | ||
| Denmark | NIELSEN Mie | 0.64 | 1.66 |
| PEDERSEN Rikke Moller | 0.31 | ||
| OTTESEN Jeanette | 0.30 | ||
| BLUME Pernille | 0.41 | ||
| China | FU Yuanhui | 0.59 | 1.13 |
| SHI Jinglin | 0.31 | ||
| LU Ying | 0.03 | ||
| ZHU Menghui | 0.20 | ||
| Canada | MASSE Kylie | 0.58 | 1.00 |
| NICOL Rachel | 0.20 | ||
| OLEKSIAK Penny | -0.01 | ||
| Van LANDEGHEM Chantal | 0.23 | ||
| Russia | FESIKOVA Anastasiia | 0.70 | 1.52 |
| EFIMOVA Yulia | 0.25 | ||
| CHIMROVA Svetlana | 0.32 | ||
| POPOVA Veronika | 0.25 | ||
| Great Britain | DAVIES Georgia | 0.63 | 1.45 |
| TUTTON Chloe | 0.04 | ||
| O’CONNOR Siobhan-Marie | 0.26 | ||
| HALSALL Francesca | 0.52 | ||
| Italy | ZOFKOVA Carlotta | 0.78 | 1.37 |
| CASTIGLIONI Arianna | 0.29 | ||
| BIANCHI Ilaria | 0.28 | ||
| PELLEGRINI Federica | 0.02 |
They won comfortably, but maybe they could be gotten that world record? I remember them being within the 2 second range.
I’m not sure this is even noteworthy. The US quartet knew they had it won on paper and were likely coached to use safe starts. Nothing to see here……
Seriously !! Who gives a crap about reaction times when you win by 1.88 secs! If they lost by that much then we talk about it!!!
They’re just saying that it’s interesting how they played it safe. It’s really cool to see these times
Why add the backstroke times into this? Males more sense to say the US was 1.12
Well she also had a reaction time off the start
USA had the most to lose by DQing…
They won….
So CAN should’ve been DQed? Forgive my ignorance
For the DQ to happen the reaction pad has to be more than -.09 otherwise they can say the reaction pad wasn’t accurate enough or it malfunctioned.
Thanks!
.03 will get you dq’d .02 is ok
They are allowed upto -0.03. Anything -0.04 or more results in a DQ.