1988 Olympic Games - Swimming - Men's 4x100 Meter Medley Relay - USA
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- Опубліковано 7 лип 2016
- Unlike the men’s freestyle relays the United States was expected to have an easy victory in this one. They were the world record holders, defending champions, and had won at the 1986 World Championships and 1987 Pan Pacific meet. David Berkoff put the USA almost a full second ahead of the Soviet Union with his opening backstroke split. Although it was closer on breaststroke, Matt Biondi then opened the lead on the butterfly to almost two seconds, and gave the anchor lead to Chris Jacobs. Jacobs powered home in 48.35, the eighth fastest split ever, with the first seven by Biondi, as the United States won easily in a world record 3:36.93. Canada won the race for silver, overtaking the Soviets with about 20 metres left on the final leg, setting a new Commonwealth record of 3:39.28 as the Soviets won bronze in a European record 3:39.96.
This was the final event of swimming in Seoul. Biondi’s gold medal gave him five gold medals in seven events - all three relays and the 50 and 100 freestyles. He would return in Barcelona to win two more relay golds, finishing his Olympic career with seven golds and 10 Olympic medals. - Спорт
Just twenty years later, Jason Lezak pulled off his anchor leg in the 4x100 free at 46.06-two seconds faster!
Crazy how it was west Germany and the Soviet Union not that long ago
how is this relay so similar to tokyo 2020? The american backstroker (murphy) dominating, Usa's breaststroker getting caught (Andrew), the american hero butterflyer / freestylern(dressel/ biondi) getting the lead back and the freestyler bringing the relay home for a WR.
Wish I could go underwater that long. But now we have to go until only 15m. Stupid. Stupid.
Not stupid. The sport is called swimming, not gliding. These guys should have been stopped right at the beginning.
No leg on the American team was swum by the gold medalist in that particular stroke.
Speedos were better than jammers..
that is fucking true