BUDAPEST, Hungary – Texas junior Townley Haas and former Longhorn Jack Conger helped Team USA to third place and a bronze medal in the 4x200-meter freestyle relay Friday night at the 17th FINA World Championships.

The Texas tandem, who helped the U.S. to gold in the event at the 2016 Olympic Games, joined Blake Pieroni and Zane Grothe to win bronze in 7 minutes, 3.18 seconds. Great Britain won the gold in 7:01.70 while Russia won silver in 7:02.68.

The Americans held second place after Pieroni's leadoff leg before Haas split an impressive 1:44.58 – the second-fastest leg among the 32 swimmers in the final – and put the U.S. in the lead at 400 meters.

Conger chipped in the second-fastest American relay leg behind Haas in 1:45.37 and kept the U.S. in the lead at the 600m mark. Great Britain and Russia made up ground through the final 200 meters on their way to gold and silver, respectively. Former Longhorn Clark Smith also wins a bronze medal in the 4x200m freestyle relay after competing in the event's preliminary round, where he helped Team USA qualify seventh for the final. Smith joined Haas and Conger as gold medalists in the 4x200m freestyle relay at the Rio Olympics.