4 × 200 m freestyle relay, women

What to remember

Ariarne Titmus anchored the team with a 200 m in 1:52.41, the fastest leg of the relay. On July 27, 2023, at the World Championships in Fukuoka, Japan, Australia covered the women's 4 × 200 m freestyle relay in 7 min 37.50 s.

Mollie O'Callaghan had led off in 1:53.66, followed by Shayna Jack in 1:55.63 and Brianna Throssell in 1:55.80. Those championships belonged to O'Callaghan: she won the 100 m and 200 m freestyle and was part of the winning 4 × 100 m, 4 × 200 m and mixed 4 × 100 m relay teams. She was already part of the Australian relay that held the world record in 2022. At the 2024 Paris Olympics she won the 200 m freestyle and the 4 × 100 m freestyle relay.

The women's 4 × 200 m freestyle relay joined the World Championships in 1986 and the Olympics in 1996, long after the men's race. In long course, the men's record belongs to the United States and the women's to Australia.