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PARIS — The American quartet that broke the mixed 4x400-meter relay world record during Friday’s prelims may have peaked a day early. They didn't build a big enough lead in Saturday's final to ...
BUDAPEST (Reuters) -The United States won a dramatic World Championship gold with a world record in the mixed 4x400 metres relay on Saturday as Femke Bol fell five metres from the line just as it ...
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 ...
With Femke Bol, who had taken the World Indoor Record in the 400 metres earlier in the season, as their anchor leg, Netherlands came in as a favorite. Defending champion Poland had a rougher time getting into the final, their anchor leg Patrycja Wyciszkiewicz-Zawadzka finding herself on the deck at the beginning of her leg in a multi-athlete collision on the exchange.
The mixed 4 × 400 metres relay is a mixed-sex 4 × 400 metres relay in which teams field two men and two women. Since March 2022, team members have to run in the order man-woman-man-woman. It was introduced at the 2017 IAAF World Relays and was then held at the 2019 World Athletics Championships in Qatar.
This was the second time that the mixed 4 × 400 metres relay was contested at the Summer Olympics. A total of 16 teams qualified for the event through the 2024 World Athletics Relays or the World Athletics top list. Round 1 was held in two heats on 2 August. The three fastest teams of each heat and the two fastest of the rest qualified for the ...
Last year at the Tokyo Olympics, Felix called on all of her experience to win bronze in the open 400 meters and was part of the gold medal-winning 4x400 relay, her 10th and 11th Olympics medals.
The mixed 4 × 400 metres relay at the 2022 World Athletics Championships was held at the Hayward Field in Eugene, Oregon, United States, on 15 July 2022. [ 1 ] Background