4 × 100 m freestyle relay, women, 25 m pool

What to remember

Gretchen Walsh brought the relay home in 50.67, the fastest of the four legs. In Budapest, host of the 25 m pool World Championships, the Americans clocked 3 min 25.01 s in the women's 4 × 100 m freestyle relay on December 10, 2024.

Kate Douglass had led off in 50.95, followed by Katharine Berkoff in 51.38 and Alex Shackell in 52.01. Douglass is an Olympic medallist. Swimming for the University of Virginia from 2019 to 2023, she helped the team win three NCAA Division I titles, in 2021, 2022 and 2023, and won the Honda Sports Award as the best college female swimmer in 2022 and 2023. She set the 50 m freestyle world record in Irvine on August 15, 2026.

The women's 4 × 100 m freestyle has been held at the Games since 1912. World Championships swimmers have raced it since 1973. Both 25 m pool records, men's and women's, belong to American teams.