Beijing Olympic Games

Swimming-Men’s 4 x 100m freestyle relay final result

Aug 11 (Reuters) - Olympic swimming men’s 4 x 100m freestyle relay final result in Beijing on Monday. 1. U.S. Michael Phelps/Garrett Weber-Gale/Cullen Jones/Jason Lezak 3 minutes 8.24 seconds WR 2. France Amaury Leveaux/Fabien Gilot/Frederick Bousquet/Alain Bernard 3:08.32 3. Australia Eamon Sullivan*/Andrew Lauterstein/Ashley Callus/Matt Targett 3:09.91 4. Italy Alessandro Calvi/Christian Galenda/Marco Belotti/Filippo Magnini 3:11.48 5. Sweden Petter Stymne/Lars Froelander/Stefan Nystrand/Jonas Persson 3:11.92 6. Canada Brent Hayden/Joel Greenshields/Colin Russell/Rick Say 3:12.26 7. South Africa Lyndon Ferns/Darian Townsend/Roland Schoeman/Ryk Neethling 3:12.66 8. Britain Simon Burnett/Adam Brown/Benjamin Hockin/Ross Davenport 3:12.87 WR = World record * = Sullivan broke men’s world 100m freestyle record, setting a new mark of 47.24 secs.

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