Melbourne - Olympic champions South Africa held off a concerted final leg challenge to end Australia's unbeaten Games record with a thrilling men's 4x100m freestyle relay victory at the Commonwealth Games on Thursday.
The South African team of Roland Schoeman, Lyndon Ferns, Gerhard Zandberg and Ryk Neethling swept to a Games record of three minutes 14.97 seconds to edge out Australia and Canada for gold.
It was Australia's first defeat in the 100m freestyle relay since the 1978 Edmonton Games.
The South Africans, who shocked the swimming world when they won the 100m freestyle relay gold medal at the 2004 Athens Olympics in world record time, were 1.8 seconds outside their world record swim Thursday.
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Ashley Callus raised a powerful effort for the Australian team in the final lap to pip Neethling in the anchor leg but the South African held on strongly for a great victory.
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