King Closes Olympic Career with Relay Gold, World Record
8/4/2024 5:08:00 PM | Women's Swimming and Diving, Olympics
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. – Indiana University alumna Lilly King has said the 2024 Olympics will be her final Summer Games, and she ended it in storybook fashion.
King and Team USA won the women's 4x100-meter medley – the final race of the swimming program at Paris 2024 – in a world record time of 3:49.63 on Sunday (Aug. 4) inside La Défense Arena. With the victory, the Americans topped the gold medal leaderboard in swimming with eight over Australia's seven.
The U.S. reset its own world record by 87 hundredths of a second, previously set at the 2019 World Championships. Regan Smith and King were members of the previous record relay and returned to swim the first half of Sunday's swim, followed by Gretchen Walsh and Torri Huske. King blasted a 1:04.90 to extend the United States' lead through two legs, nearly identical to the 1:04.81 split from the 2019 effort.
King is now a six-time Olympic medalist and three-time gold medalist and has won a medal at all three Olympics she has competed in. She also holds the world record in the 100-meter breaststroke.
#NeverDaunted
King and Team USA won the women's 4x100-meter medley – the final race of the swimming program at Paris 2024 – in a world record time of 3:49.63 on Sunday (Aug. 4) inside La Défense Arena. With the victory, the Americans topped the gold medal leaderboard in swimming with eight over Australia's seven.
The U.S. reset its own world record by 87 hundredths of a second, previously set at the 2019 World Championships. Regan Smith and King were members of the previous record relay and returned to swim the first half of Sunday's swim, followed by Gretchen Walsh and Torri Huske. King blasted a 1:04.90 to extend the United States' lead through two legs, nearly identical to the 1:04.81 split from the 2019 effort.
King is now a six-time Olympic medalist and three-time gold medalist and has won a medal at all three Olympics she has competed in. She also holds the world record in the 100-meter breaststroke.
#NeverDaunted
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