Olympics: Swimmers miss out

New Zealand's struggles in the pool continued when the men's 4x100m medley relay team fell short of qualifying for the final by an agonising 0.06 seconds on Friday night.

The team of Rotorua's Carl O'Donnell and Gareth Kean, Glenn Snyders and Andy McMillan finished fifth in their heat in a time of 3:34.52 but were pipped for a place in Sunday morning's (NZT) final by Canada.

Hayley Palmer posted the 23rd fastest time (25.47 seconds) of 73 swimmers in the women's 50m freestyle.

Lauren Boyle is the only New Zealand swimmer to qualify for a final and will contest the 800m freestyle final tomorrow morning (NZT). She was eighth in the 400m freestyle.

- APNZ