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A medley relay race is when 4 swimmers swim a relay race where each swimmer uses a different stroke. The first swims a backtstroke, the second swims a breastroke, the third swims a butterfly, and the final swimmer swims a freestyle. They go in alphabetical order.

in track there are several types of medley relays one example is the 800 medley relay

the people run like this:

1. 100m

2.100m

3.200m

4.400m

in track theres two different medley relays

THE SPRINT medley relay (SMR) totals 1mile

Is ran with

two 200metre runners

a 400 metre runner

and an 800 metre runner

in the distance medley relay (DMR) ererything is doubled

it can also be when the 1st runner: 100m, second runner: 200m, third runner: 300m and the fourth runner 400m

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a medley relay is when there are four people in an event, say the event is 4 x 100 ,each person will do 100 m

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a medley is a mix of all the strokes, an IM (individual medley) is butterfly, backstroke, breast stroke, freestyle. A medley relay is backstroke, breaststroke, butterfly, freestyle.

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