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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.
The makeup of the mixed 4x400-meter relay team was a source of intrigue leading up to Friday because of the possibility that 16-year-old phenom Quincy Wilson could make his Olympic debut.Wilson is ...
Despite Wilson's rocky debut, the Americans finished third and advanced to Saturday's 4x400 final after posting a time of 2:59:15. Team USA's Quincy Wilson looks on during the men's 4 x 400m relay ...
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 ...
Quincy Wilson (center) made history as the youngest U.S. male track Olympian of all time when he competed in the 4x400-meter relay preliminary round at just 16 years old.
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 ...
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.