Swimming: USA lower mixed 4x100m medley world record for gold
The last swimming final of the night is the mixed 4x100m medley relay – teams can pick any two men and any two women, in any order, to swim backstroke, breaststroke, butterfly, freestyle.
All eight teams are finishing with women. Great Britain are defending champions but have only qualified in lane 2. USA and Australia are the top qualifiers in lanes 4 and 5.
France are also in this race, with Léon Marchand on breaststroke, but are out in lane 1.
The swim orders are: France M-M-F-F, Great Britain F-M-M-F, People’s Republic of China M-M-F-F, USA M-M-F-F, Australia F-M-M-F, Netherlands F-M-M-F, Canada F-M-M-F, Japan M-M-F-F.
So you’ll see the likes of Great Britain and Australia lag behind on the first leg as the teams with male backstrokers head into the lead. China’s Xu Jiayu leads at 50 from USA’s Ryan Murphy.
Murphy edges back slightly ahead coming back, it’s so close between the two! 0.05 seconds in it as they head into the second legs.
The crowd are roaring every time Marchand comes up for air on the breaststroke. Nic Fink leads from Qin Haiyang at 150m.
Qin’s edging back ahead now. Marchand is clear in third, but other teams will get back in this.
China lead at halfway as Zhang Yufei and Gretchen Walsh hit the pool for the fly. The teams with men on this leg will start to catch the leaders now.
Walsh is making a move on Zhang! Still well ahead of the world record split. Torri Huske leads as she enters the pool ahead of Yang Junxuan!
They’re still on the world record line. Australia are now in third with Mollie O’Callaghan.
25 to go. This may be a world record! It is!
United States of America win gold in 3:37.43, a new world record!
China take silver in an Asian record 3:37.55. Australia take bronze in 3:38.76, an Oceanian record.