Michael Phelps earned his 19th gold Olympic​ medal leading Team USA to victory in the men's 4x100m freestyle The 22-time Olympic medalist staggering split helped lead US men to their first swimming gold of the Rio Games Swimming the second leg, Phelps joined Caeleb Dressel, Ryan Held and anchor Nathan Adrian to won this gold in 3 minutes, 9.92 seconds The American team was followed by followed by France, the defending champion, at 3:10.53 and Australia at 3:11.37