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Team USA finished out the track and field events with three gold medals, including the women's 100-meter hurdles ... Both the men's and the women's relay teams won gold in the 4x400-meter relay ...
Team USA has enjoyed far more success in the 4x400 relay than the 4x100 relay. Botched handoffs and exchanges have notoriously plagued the U.S. men in the 4x100, and the team’s issues came to ...
The U.S.’s time of 2:54.43 broke the Olympic record in the men’s 4x400 relay. Benjamin’s heroic anchor leg means Wilson, the 16-year-old phenom, will leave Paris with a gold medal.
The American college team was anchored by Fitzroy Dunkley who ran for Jamaica here. Trinidad and Tobago, medallists at both the last Olympics and World Championships, were the next strongest team. Other teams entering with fast quartets were Jamaica, Great Britain and 2016 European champions Belgium. [2] As in 2012, the heats produced some drama.
Having swept the 400 metres and winning the World Championships as part of their qualifying process, defending champion USA came in as an overwhelming favorite. USA put their Olympic champion LaShawn Merritt on the leadoff leg with the intent to break the race wide open from the start. The strategy worked, Merritt ran 44.01 out of the blocks.
USA's 2:56.69 was the fastest relay in 11 years, number 11 on the all-time list. 8 of the 10 times ahead of them are also USA teams. Colombia set a new national record again in the final, a second and a half improvement, going under 3 minutes for the first time and moving their country into #15 on the all-time list. [2]
The U.S. has now medaled in the mixed 4x400-meter relay at every global championship since the event was contested for the first time at the Tokyo Olympics. That only one of those medals was gold ...
Going into the meeting, the USA 4 × 400 metres team hadn't lost at a major championships in over seven years. Britain, by contrast, hadn't won a gold medal in the event since the 1936 Berlin Olympics. The British team made a tactical change, switching their top runner Roger Black, expected to be the anchor leg runner, to the first leg. The ...