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Chris Bailey's gold medal for the US in 4x400-meter relay highlighted performances of Tennessee alumni in Paris Olympics
Christopher Bailey (born May 29, 2000) is an American track and field athlete. He has won medals at the 2024 Olympic Games , the Athletics World Championships and World Athletics Indoors Championships in the 4x400 metres relay .
Christopher Bailey had to run all out for most of the anchor lap, only having the opportunity to relax once he had clearly passed Kentaro Sato of Japan to secure the third automatic qualifying position for the team behind Botswana and GBR. Bailey split 44.0, so all three runners who would run in the final the next day had hard splits in their legs.
Rai Benjamin confidently told USA TODAY Sports the U.S. men’s 4x400 relay team “got something for” the competition in the final. He was correct.
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 men's 4 × 400 metres relay at the 2024 World Athletics Indoor Championships took place on 3 March 2024.. The winning margin was 0.06 seconds which was the first time the men's 4x400 metres was won by less than a tenth of a second at these championships.
The 4 × 400 metres relay at the Summer Olympics is the longest track relay event held at the multi-sport event.The men's relay has been present on the Olympic athletics programme since 1912 and the women's event has been continuously held since the 1972 Olympics.
A blistering 44.14-second anchor leg by Christopher Bailey helped the U.S. rally from seventh to finish third and advance to the 4x400 Olympic final on Aug. 10.