Swimming - Team United States

General
At Rio 2016, the United States of America underlined their dominance of the 4x100m medley relay at the Olympic Games as they claimed their 14th gold medal in the event.

The event was first introduced at the 1960 Games in Rome, and since then the US team have claimed the medley relay gold medal at each edition they have competed at. The only occasion they did not win gold was the 1980 Games in Moscow, which the US team boycotted. The probability of them winning at the 1980 Games, if they had competed, is best highlighted by their 1982 World Championships performance, which saw them triumph in a world record time that was nearly five seconds quicker than the time that won Olympic gold in Moscow.

It is a similar story at the world championships, where the US team have claimed 13 world titles from 18 editions, including the first seven from 1973 to 1994. After successive golds in 2015 and 2017, they were forced to settle for silver in 2019 behind Great Britain.

At the Pan American Games, the US team are again the dominant nation, winning 17 medals from 17 editions and topping the podium on 14 occasions.