Stephanie Rice has joined Shane Gould, Jodie Henry and Petria Thomas as triple Olympic gold medal winners from one Games after teaming with Bronte Barratt, Kylie Palmer, and Linda Mackenzie in a memorable upset win in the women's 4 x 200m freestyle relay.

After gold in the 200m and 400m individual medleys earlier in the program, Rice was a part of a team which caused one of the biggest boilovers in Olympic swimming history, upsetting red-hot favourites the United States, who had to be satisfied with bronze after China beat them for the silver.

And to make it even more amazing, the Australian time of 7min.44.31s took a stunning 5.78s off the old world record mark set by the US at last year's world championships in Melbourne.