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Australia won the 4×100 women’s freestyle relay Olympic gold for the third time in a row, beating their own world record by three seconds and helping take the sting out of a disappointing first day of finals in the pool.
The quartet of sisters Bronte and Cate Campbell, Meg Harris and Emma McKeon took 0.36 seconds off their previous best of 3:30.05 set in April 2018, with a world record of 3:29.69. Canada took silver, 3:09 seconds behind the winners while the United States came in third for the bronze medal.
Ecstatic with their performance, team members made a show of presenting their gold medals to each other after the ceremony. “We all just presented the medals between ourselves because it was a pretty special moment,” said Bronte Campbell.
