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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.
Thomas picked up her third in the finale of Olympic track and field Saturday at Stade de France in the women’s 4x400 relay, as the Americans clocked an U.S.-record 3:15.27 to smoke the ...
Men's 4x400 Metres Relay Olympic Qualifying Round 2 - Heat Place Athlete Country Time Heat 1: Jacory Patterson Champion Allison Christopher Bailey Bryce Deadmon United States: 2:59.95: 1 2: Lucas Carvalho Lucas Vilar Vitor Hugo de Miranda Matheus Lima Brazil: 3:01.86: 3 3: Iñaki Cañal Manuel Guijarro Óscar Husillos Julio Arenas Spain: 3:02 ...
Over the next leg, Josh Mance brought the American team into contention, with the two teams separating from the rest of the field. On the final straightaway, Pinder extended the lead slightly, his relay split of 43.3 credited as the 7th (now 9th) fastest relay splits in history.
The U.S. will enter Saturday’s mixed 4x400-meter final as a heavy favorite to take gold. None of the other teams that qualified for the final managed to break 3 minutes, 10 seconds.
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 ...
The United States broke their own world record in the 4x400 mixed relay in the opening heats at the Paris Olympics on Friday, crossing the line in three minutes 7.41 seconds. They set the previous ...