NANTERRE, France — Group USA finished swimming at the Paris Olympics on Sunday with a standout hand-off, winning gold and breaking the world record in the women’s 4×100-meter mixture hand-off at Paris La Défense Arena.

In the last occasion in the pool of these Recreations, the group of Regan Smith (backstroke), Lilly Ruler (breaststroke), Gretchen Walsh (butterfly) and Torri Huske (free-form) swam a marvelous race annihilating the field by about four seconds. Their time of 3:49.63 broke the Olympic record set by Australia at the Tokyo Recreations (3:51.60) and the Americans’ possess world record of 3:50.40, set in 2019.

Australia came domestic with a silver with a time of 3:53.11, whereas China took bronze 3:53.23.

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The men’s mixture — including Ryan Murphy (backstroke), Nic Fink (breaststroke), Caeleb Dressel (butterfly) and Seeker Armstrong (free-form) — wrapped up with a time of 3:28.01. China won the gold decoration with a time of 3:27.46, whereas France took bronze in 3:28.38.

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This marks the to begin with time the U.S. men fizzled to capture gold in the mixture transfer occasion in a non-boycotted Olympics.

The Americans’ world and Olympic record of 3:26.78 from the 2021 Tokyo Recreations still stands.

Heat races for both transfers were on Saturday — there are no elimination rounds for transfers — and the men’s mixture transfer qualified third, 0.26 seconds behind best qualifiers France and China at the moment. The prelim lineup consisted of Seeker Armstrong (backstroke), Charlie Swanson (breaststroke), Thomas Heilman (butterfly) and Jack Alexy (free-form), who combined for a time of 3:31.62.

In the women’s variety transfer, the Americans qualified fourth and 1.59 seconds behind beat qualifier Australia, along with Canada and China. Katharine Berkoff (backstroke), Emma Weber (breaststroke), Alex Shackell (butterfly) and Kate Douglass (free-form) wrapped up with a 3:56.40 prelims swim.

Team USA hand-off comes about at Paris Olympics

Here’s a see at how the U.S. men’s, women’s and blended transfer groups performed in Paris: