Open water swimming at the 2017 World Aquatics Championships – Team

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Mixed 5 km team relay
at the 2017 World Aquatics Championships
Venue Lake Balaton
Location Hungary
Dates20 July
Competitors76 from 19 nations
Teams19
Winning time54:05.9
Medalists
Gold medal icon.svg   Flag of France.svg  France
Silver medal icon.svg   Flag of the United States.svg  United States
Bronze medal icon.svg   Flag of Italy.svg  Italy
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The mixed 5 km team relay competition at the 2017 World Championships was held on 20 July 2017 in Lake Balaton, Hungary.

Contents

France won gold with a time of 54:05.9, the United States finished second with 54:18.1, and Italy finished third with 54:31.0.

Race

The race took place on 20 July at 10:00 in Lake Balaton, Hungary. [1] [2] Each national team consisted of two men and two women, who could swim in any order. [3] Each athlete swam 1.25 km, meaning each team completed 5 km in total. [4] [5] It was the first time this event was contested at the World Aquatics Championships. [5]

France were in 11th position at the end of the first leg, then moved up to fourth by the end of the second leg, and then to second behind only Great Britain going into the last leg. Marc-Antoine Olivier swam the final leg and won gold for France with a total time of 54:05.9. [6] [5] Swimming World called France's victory "decisive". [4]

Brendan Casey swam the fastest first leg to put the United States in the lead going into the changeover. After the US dropped to, and then remained in fifth over the second and third legs, [7] Jordan Wilimovsky swam the final leg for the United States three seconds faster than Olivier, but it was not enough to catch him and the US won silver with 54:18.1. [4] [5] [8]

Italy allocated women for the first two legs, and they were thirteenth at the halfway mark, before Federico Vanelli overtook ten swimmers over the third leg to put them in podium position. They won bronze with 54:31.0. [5] [9]

France's victory earned them their fifth medal and third gold of the open water events at the Championships. [2] [10] Ashley Twichell's silver as part of the US team was her fourth World Championship open water swimming medal, more than any other US athlete. [7]

Results [11]
RankNationSwimmers [a] Time
Gold medal icon.svgFlag of France.svg  France Océane Cassignol
Logan Fontaine
Aurélie Muller
Marc-Antoine Olivier
54:05.9
Silver medal icon.svgFlag of the United States.svg  United States Brendan Casey
Ashley Twichell
Haley Anderson
Jordan Wilimovsky
54:18.1
Bronze medal icon.svgFlag of Italy.svg  Italy Rachele Bruni
Giulia Gabbrielleschi
Federico Vanelli
Mario Sanzullo
54:31.0
4Flag of Australia (converted).svg  Australia Kareena Lee
Jack Brazier
Kiah Melverton
Jack McLoughlin
54:42.9
5Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Great Britain Danielle Huskisson
Tobias Robinson
Timothy Shuttleworth
Alice Dearing
54:51.1
6Flag of Brazil.svg  Brazil Allan do Carmo
Viviane Jungblut
Ana Marcela Cunha
Fernando Ponte
55:19.6
7Flag of Hungary.svg  Hungary Janka Juhász
Kristóf Rasovszky
Melinda Novoszáth
Gergely Gyurta
55:23.7
8Flag of Germany.svg  Germany Finnia Wunram
Leonie Beck
Sören Meißner
Rob Muffels
55:41.8
9Flag of Japan.svg  Japan Yohsuke Miyamoto
Yasunari Hirai
Yukimi Moriyama
Minami Niikura
55:54.0
10Flag of Russia.svg  Russia Sergey Bolshakov
Daria Kulik
Kirill Abrosimov
Mariia Novikova
55:55.1
11Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada Richard Weinberger
Stephanie Horner
Eric Hedlin
Breanne Siwicki
55:58.3
12Flag of South Africa.svg  South Africa Danie Marais
Chad Ho
Michelle Weber
Robyn Kinghorn
56:05.3
13Flag of Argentina.svg  Argentina Joaquín Moreno
Cecilia Biagioli
Julia Arino
Guillermo Bertola
56:43.4
14Flag of Ecuador.svg  Ecuador David Castro
Patricia Guerrero
Iván Enderica Ochoa
Samantha Arévalo
58:01.2
15Flag of Israel.svg  Israel Yuval Safra
Shahar Resman
Chaya Zabludoff
Eden Girloanta
58:20.7
16Flag of the Czech Republic.svg  Czech Republic Matěj Kozubek
Vit Ingeduld
Alena Benešová
Lenka Štěrbová
58:32.2
17Flag of Mexico.svg  Mexico Arturo Pérez
Martha Sandoval
Alfredo Villa
María Mata
58:32.5
18Flag of Kazakhstan.svg  Kazakhstan Kenessary Kenenbayev
Xeniya Romanchuk
Nina Rakhimova
Lev Cherepanov
1:00:59.3
19Flag of Hong Kong.svg  Hong Kong Keith Sin
Tse Tsz Fung
Lok Hoi Man
Nip Tsz Yin
1:02:11.7

Further information

Notes

  1. Ordered according to the order they swam in

References

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