Swimming at the 2018 Mediterranean Games – Women's 4 × 100 metre medley relay explained

Event:	Women's 4 × 100 metre medley relay
Games:	2018 Mediterranean Games
Dates:	25 June
Venue:	Campclar Aquatic Center
Location:	Tarragona, Spain
Competitors:	24
Nations:	6
Win Value:	3:58.27
Gold:	Margherita Panziera Arianna Castiglioni Elena Di Liddo Erika Ferraioli
Gold Nation:	ITA
Silver:	Duane Da Rocha Jessica Vall Lidón Muñoz Marta González
Silver Nation:	ESP
Bronze:	Theodora Drakou Maria-Thaleia Drasidou Anna Ntountounaki Sofia Klikopoulou
Bronze Nation:	GRE
Prev:	2013
Next:	2022

The women's 4 × 100 metre medley relay event at the 2018 Mediterranean Games was held on 25 June 2018 at the Campclar Aquatic Center.^[1]

Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Mediterranean Games records were as follows:

World record		3:51.55	Budapest, Hungary	30 July 2017
Mediterranean Games record		4:04.57	Pescara, Italy	1 July 2009

The following records were established during the competition:

Date	Event	Nation	Swimmers	Time	Record
25 June	Final			1:00.54	GR^BK
25 June	Final		Margherita Panziera (1:00.54) Arianna Castiglioni (1:06.14) Elena Di Liddo (57.05) Erika Ferraioli (54.54)	3:58.27	GR

BK – Backstroke lead-off leg

The final was held at 19:24.^[2]

Rank	Lane	Swimmers	Time	Notes
	7	Margherita Panziera (1:00.54) GR Arianna Castiglioni (1:06.14) Elena Di Liddo (57.05) Erika Ferraioli (54.54)	3:58.27	GR, NR
	3	Duane Da Rocha (1:01.31) Jessica Vall (1:07.03) Lidón Muñoz (1:00.17) Marta González (55.82)	4:04.33
	6	Theodora Drakou (1:02.45) Maria-Thaleia Drasidou (1:11.20) Anna Ntountounaki (57.75) Sofia Klikopoulou (56.82)	4:08.22
4	4	Ekaterina Avramova (1:01.83) Gülşen Beste Samancı (1:10.48) Viktoriya Zeynep Güneş (1:00.25) Selen Özbilen (55.71)	4:08.27
5	2	Camille Gheorghiu (1:03.93) Solène Gallego (1:10.69) Marie Wattel (59.28) Assia Touati (54.94)	4:08.84
6	5	Rita Frischknecht (1:04.41) Raquel Pereira (1:09.95) Ana Monteiro (1:01.16) Diana Durães (58.12)	4:13.64	NR