Women's 4 x 800 metres relay at the 2015 IAAF World Relays | |
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Venue | Thomas Robinson Stadium |
Dates | 3 May (final) |
Competitors | 32 from 8 nations |
Medalists | |
Events at the 2015 World Relays | ||
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Events | ||
4 × 100 m relay | men | women |
4 × 200 m relay | men | women |
4 × 400 m relay | men | women |
4 × 800 m relay | men | women |
Distance medley relay | men | women |
The women's 4 x 800 metres relay at the 2015 IAAF World Relays was held at the Thomas Robinson Stadium on 3 May.
From the gun, the first runner to the break line was Mexico's Gabriela Medina, but as the athletes sorted themselves, American Chanelle Price found her way to the front follow closely by Cuba's Rose Mary Almanza. On the final straight, Almanza sprinted by giving Cuba several metres at the handoff. Cuba's Arletis Thaureaux's personal best was almost 9 seconds slower than America's Maggie Vessey, so it was fairly easy for Vessey to move into position to mark Thaureaux in the first 200 metres out front. Kenya's Sheila Jepkosgei Chesang sprinted the first 200 metres to make up the gap, following Vessey around Thaureaux and the rest of the field tightened up behind. At the beginning of her second lap, Vessey asserted the lead and opened up a sizable gap. Chesang paid for her exuberance and began to fall back through the field while Simoya Campbell put Jamaica at the head of the chase pack. As Vessey continued to stretch the lead, Campbell was displaced by Poland's Katarzyna Broniatowska, chased by Canada's Rachel François. By the end of her leg, Vessey had a 30-meter gap on the field, Broniatowska handed off in second and flopped to the track, Jamaica's Natoya Goule dodging the body after getting the baton. Chesang's last 200 metres were agony, handing off 14 seconds behind the same Vessey she had challenged earlier, Kenya well out of the running. Taking the baton from Kelly Hetherington about even with Canada, Australia's Selma Kajan rolled into second place around the turn. Molly Beckwith-Ludlow maintained the American lead while the end of the first lap saw the Australian running shoulder to shoulder with Goule and Poland's Angelika Cichocka with Canada's Elizabeth Whelan just a step behind challenged by Cuba's Gilda Casanova. Goule eased ahead, with Cichocka the only one to go with her, while Kajan dropped back to battle Casanova and Whelan as a third pack. Ludlow handed off to Alysia Johnson Montaño some 40 metres ahead, while Cichocka sprinted past Goule on the final straight. Known as a front runner, Montaño ran a hard first lap and opened up a huge lead, the entire home straight. Poland's Sofia Ennaoui moved into a clear second place with a line up of Canada's Rachel Aubry, Australia's Brittany McGowan, Cuba's Sahily Diago and Jamaica's Samantha James lined up in that order to chase for the medals. It was McGowan who pushed the final back stretch into the wind and broke away from the group.
At the end Montaño's lead had shrunk back to only about 70 metres, she celebrated waving the baton to the crowd as she finished. More than ten seconds later, Ennaoui finished another couple of seconds ahead of McGowan. Out of the first five teams, only Australia did not set their National Record with this race. The previous American and North American record was from this race the year earlier, so the winning American team set the Championship record and their continental record in the same step. Still this time is more than ten seconds slower than world record, set by a Soviet team in 1984 during the Soviet bloc boycott of the Olympics. It is the number 13 performance of all time, all but two of those performances ahead of it being set before the dissolution of the Soviet Union and those remaining two set by Russia and Romania in the European Relay Festival in Portsmouth, England, an earlier relay festival that was a predecessor to the World Relays concept in June 1993. [1]
Prior to the competition, the records were as follows:
Date | Time | Round |
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3 May 2015 | 19:53 | Final |
All times are local times (UTC-4)
The final was started at 19:56. [2]
Rank | Lane | Nation | Athletes | Time | Notes |
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6 | United States | Chanelle Price, Maggie Vessey, Molly Beckwith-Ludlow, Alysia Johnson Montaño | 8:00:62 | CR , AR , WL | |
2 | Poland | Syntia Ellward, Katarzyna Broniatowska, Angelika Cichocka, Sofia Ennaoui | 8:11:36 | NR | |
8 | Australia | Abbey de la Motte, Kelly Hetherington, Selma Kajan, Brittany McGowan | 8:13:97 | SB | |
4 | 3 | Cuba | Rose Mary Almanza, Arletis Thaureaux, Gilda Casanova, Sahily Diago | 8:15:84 | NR |
5 | 1 | Jamaica | Kimarra McDonald, Simoya Campbell, Natoya Goule, Samantha James | 8:16:04 | NR |
6 | 5 | Canada | Karine Belleau-Béliveau, Rachel François, Elizabeth Whelan, Rachel Aubry | 8:16.27 | SB |
7 | 4 | Mexico | Gabriela Medina, Alejandra Pozas, Paola Vázquez, Arantza Hernández | 8:30.56 | SB |
8 | 7 | Kenya | Annet Mwanzi Lukhuyi, Sheila Jepkosgei Chesang, Sylvia Cherop, Eglay Nafuna Nalyanya | 8:33.15 | SB |
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