World champs end in craziest way possible

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Australia and the USA divided the golden medal successful the men's 4x100m medley relay successful a dormant vigor satellite grounds swim, bringing the curtain down astatine the World Swimming Championships

The hometown boys trailed for astir of the contention earlier Kyle Chalmers made up an unthinkable magnitude of crushed successful the anchor leg, going past Italy's Alessandro Miressi and touching the partition astatine the nonstop aforesaid clip arsenic American Kieran Smith.

The clip of 3:18.98 was bully capable for a satellite grounds arsenic Chalmers, Isaac Cooper, Joshua Yong and Matthew Temple shared the spoils with Smith, Ryan Murphy, Nic Fink and Trenton Julian.

"It's each connected this turn," commentator Mat Thompson said astatine the 375 metre mark, earlier the Olympic golden medallist Chalmers finished successful style.

"That is the aquatics of the championships from Chalmers, he had implicit a assemblage magnitude to marque up.

"That is breathtaking."

It was Australia's 13th golden of the abbreviated people satellite championships, the astir ever by a greenish and golden contingent astatine 1 of these events.

"The Australian squad was not expected to summation that result, and that is an awesome group. Every 1 of those young men stood up and performed supra what was expected," Ian Thorpe said.

There was nary specified luck for the squad of Kaylee McKeown, Jenna Strauch, Emma McKeon and Meg Harris successful the women's race, who posted an awesome clip of 3:44.92, but had to beryllium contented with silver.

They were much than fractional a 2nd down the American squad who posted a caller satellite grounds successful a clip of 3:44.35.

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