Day 7 Relay Lineups: Along with Le Clos, Cseh Out of Men’s Medley

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The relay lineups for the men’s and women’s medley relay prelims have been released, with no real surprises on either side.

The biggest surprise on the women’s side would have to be the exclusion of both Bronte and Cate Campbell from the Australian freestyle leg, as one of them was expected to swim the prelims with the other coming in for the final. Who swims the final now is unknown, as Cate had the faster relay leg on the 400 free relay, but faded bad in last night’s 100 free and was beaten by Bronte. Brittany Elmslie takes the  freestyle spot this morning in their place.

Teams on the women’s side expected to make changes if they advance include USA, Australia and Canada. Take a look at the full lineups for the women below:

Women’s 400 Medley Relay

Heat 1

1. Brazil (N.Luccas, J.Conceicao, D.De Paula, L.Oliveira)
2. Russia (A.Fesikova, Y.Efimova, S.Chimrova, V.Popova)
3. Canada (K.Masse, R.Nicol, N.Thomas, T.Ruck)
4. Sweden (M.Coleman, J.Johnasson, S.Sjostrom, L.Hansson)
5. Denmark (M.Nielsen, R.Pedersen, J.Ottesen, P.Blume)
6. Japan (N.Sakai, S.Suzuki, R.Ikee, M.Uchida)
7. Finland (M.Jallow, J.Laukkanen, E.Pikkarainen, H.Seppala)
8. Hong Kong (S.Au, Y.Kong, H.Sze, C.Cheng)

Heat 2

1. France (B.Gastaldello, F.Deberghes, M.Wattel, C.Bonnet)
2. Italy (C.Zofkova, A.Castiglioni, I.Bianchi, F.Pellegrini)
3. Australia (M.Wilson, T.McKeown, M.Groves, B.Elmslie)
4. China (F.Yunahui, Z.Xinyu, L.Ying, S.Duo)
5. USA (O.Smoliga, K.Meili, K.Worrell, A.Weitzeil)
6. Great Britain (G.Davies, C.Tutton, S.O’Connor, G.Coates)
7. Germany (J.Mensing, V.Grimberg, A.Wenk, A.Bruhn)
8. Czech Republic (S.Baumrtova, M.Moravcikova, L.Svecena, B.Seemanova)

As expected on the men’s side, Chad Le Clos will not swim for South Africa after dropping the event to focus on the 100 fly. The case is the same for Laszlo Cseh, who won’t swim for Hungary this morning in order to rest up for the 100 fly showdown tonight.

Other than those, the only other real surprise is the inclusion of Australian Mitch Larkin, who one might expect would get a bye to the final and the Aussies would put Josh Beaver in, but they didn’t want to take any changes. It also may give Larkin a confidence boost if he can pop off a fast swim here.

The USA, France, Australia and Russia appear to be the only four teams who would definitely make lineup changes if they were to advance.

Take a look at the full men’s lineups below:

Men’s 400 Medley Relay

Heat 1

1. Italy (S.Sabbioni, A.Toniato, P.Codia, L.Dotto)
2. Russia (G.Tarasevich, A.Chupkov, E.Koptelov, A.Sukhorukov)
3. Germany (J.Glania, C.vom Lehn, S.Deibler, D.Wierling)
4. Australia (M.Larkin, J.Packard, D.Morgan, C.McEvoy)
5. Great Britain (C.Walker-Hebborn, A.Peaty, J.Guy, D.Scott)
6. Poland (R.Kawecki, M.Stolarski, K.Czerniak, K.Majchrzak)
7. Canada (J.Acevedo, J.Block, M.Darragh, Y.Kisil)
8. Lithuania (D.Rapsys, G.Titenis, D.Margevicius, S.Bilis)

Heat 2

1. Greece (A.Christou, P.Samilidis, A.Vazaios, K.Gkolomeev)
2. South Africa (C.Reid, C.van der Burgh, D.Bosch, D.Brown)
3. Japan (R.Irie, Y.Koseki, T.Fujii, K.Nakamura)
4. USA (D.Plummer, K.Cordes, T.Shields, C.Dressel)
5. France (C.Lacourt, T.Bussiere, J.Stravius, C.Mignon)
6. Brazil (G.Guido, F.Franca, H.Martins, M.Chierighini)
7. Hungary (G.Balog, D.Gyurta, B.Pulai, R.Bohus)
8. China (X.Jiayu, L.Xiang, L.Zhuhao, N.Zetao)