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31 January 2009

Great Britain's 4x200metres freestyle relay squad won the bronze medal at the World Championships in Rome on Thursday night.

The British quartet touched in seven minutes and 45.51 seconds, a new European record.

It was the fourth British medal in the pool at the Foro Italico.

Rebecca Adlington swam the final leg to bring the British women home behind China and the USA.

It helped the squad exorcise the demons of Beijing when an under-strength quartet failed to make it through the heats.

Adlington said: "All of us gave 110% and we did better than we did last year. It's just been brilliant."

Jo Jackson, silver medallist in the 400m freestyle, led the team off and said: "We knew it would be tough out there, there was a lot of good teams.

"But I thought we did a great performance, a great team effort.

"We got a massive PB and a British and European record.

"We did awesome and we are all really proud of each other."

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