2015 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 4 × 400 metres relay

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Women's 4 × 400 metres relay
at the 2015 World Championships
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The finish, Novlene Williams-Mills celebrates ahead of Francena McCorory
Venue Beijing National Stadium
Dates29 August (heats)
30 August (final)
Competitors74 from 16 nations
Winning time3:19.13
Medalists
Gold medal icon.svg   Flag of Jamaica.svg  Jamaica
Silver medal icon.svg   Flag of the United States.svg  United States
Bronze medal icon.svg   Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Great Britain
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The women's 4 × 400 metres relay at the 2015 World Championships in Athletics was held at the Beijing National Stadium on 29 and 30 August. [1] [2]

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Summary

The Jamaican team announced their intention to win this race early in the championships by placing all four of their relay team members in the top six of the final of the 400 metres. The American squad had two women in that same race, one of them the winner Allyson Felix. Their ace in the hole was having the top two in the world, prior to the American championships, fail to make the individual event but were available for the relay. Both Olympic Champion Sanya Richards-Ross and World Indoor Champion Francena McCorory demonstrated their occasional ability to run excellent 350 meter races in that meet, their flailing last 50 metres is why they didn't qualify for the individual race. All the other teams ran their season best just to make the finals, Bahamas and Japan set National Records and still failed to qualify.

In the final, it was a reminder of 2008 on this same track as Richards-Ross was out aggressively, making up the stagger on Christine Ohuruogu and when she hit the home stretch, she was out of gas. Meanwhile, to their outside, Christine Day was running smoothly to give Jamaica a big lead, Shericka Jackson. Natasha Hastings ran a quick turn to barely hold off Anyika Onuora at the break. Jackson started her leg conservatively, so the gap looked manageable, until she started cranking and the lead gap started growing. Jamaica had an almost two second lead when Jackson handed off to Stephenie Ann McPherson, Hastings helped the USA hold off the British team before handing off to the American's star, Felix. The gap looked impossible at the beginning but Felix closed it down. It took Felix 350 metres to catch McPherson, but it was a steady race throughout and when Felix got there she just continued on by, handing off to world #3 Francena McCorory with the lead. Jamaica had Novlene Williams-Mills on the anchor leg, starting 2 metres down. Down the backstretch and into the final turn, McCorory held the same gap on Williams-Mills, then through the turn the gap started to widen. Onto the home stretch, Williams-Mills moved out to lane 2 to look for running room. 70 metres before the finish, McCorory's arm movement got bigger but her legs got noticeably slower. Williams-Mills cruised on by a helpless McCorory with powerful sprint form across the line for gold. Well behind the leaders, the British team was challenged by Nigeria until Patience Okon George met with a similar collapse. While Seren Bundy-Davies carried the British home for bronze, George was overtaken at the line by Russia's Kseniya Aksyonova. [3]

Felix's leg was timed at 47.72 seconds, the fastest of her career and the third fastest women's relay leg ever measured, just .02 seconds off the fastest measured electronically.

Records

Prior to the competition, the records were as follows: [4]

World record Flag of the Soviet Union.svg Soviet Union
(Tatyana Ledovskaya, Olga Nazarova, Mariya Kulchunova, Olga Bryzgina)
3:15.17 Seoul, South Korea1 October 1988
Championship record Flag of the United States.svg United States
(Gwen Torrence, Maicel Malone-Wallace, Natasha Kaiser-Brown, Jearl Miles Clark)
3:16.71 Stuttgart, Germany22 August 1993
World leadingFlag of the United States.svg United States
(Phyllis Francis, Natasha Hastings, Sanya Richards-Ross, Francena McCorory
3:19.39 Nassau, Bahamas3 May 2015
African record Flag of Nigeria.svg Nigeria
(Olabisi Afolabi, Fatima Yusuf, Charity Opara, Falilat Ogunkoya)
3:21.04 Atlanta, United States3 August 1996
Asian record Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg China Hebei province
(An Xiaohong, Bai Xiaoyun, Cao Chunying, Ma Yuqin)
3:24.28 Beijing, China13 September 1993
North, Central American and Caribbean record Flag of the United States.svg United States
(Denean Howard-Hill, Diane Dixon, Valerie Brisco-Hooks, Florence Griffith Joyner)
3:15.51Seoul, South Korea1 October 1988
South American record Flag of Brazil.svg Brazil BM&F Bovespa
(Geisa Aparecida Coutinho, Bárbara de Oliveira, Joelma Sousa, Jailma de Lima)
3:26.68 São Paulo, Brazil7 August 2011
European record Flag of the Soviet Union.svg Soviet Union
(Tatyana Ledovskaya, Olga Nazarova, Mariya Kulchunova, Olga Bryzgina)
3:15.17Seoul, South Korea1 October 1988
Oceanian record Flag of Australia (converted).svg Australia
(Nova Peris, Tamsyn Manou, Melinda Gainsford-Taylor, Cathy Freeman)
3:23.81 Sydney, Australia30 September 2000
The following records were established during the competition:
World LeadingFlag of Jamaica.svg Jamaica
(Christine Day, Shericka Jackson, Stephenie Ann McPherson, Novlene Williams-Mills)
3:19.13 Beijing, China30 August 2015

Qualification standards

Entry standards [5]
Top 8 at IWR+ 8 from Top Lists

Schedule

DateTimeRound
29 August 201510:15 Heats
30 August 201520:05 Final

All times are local times (UTC+8)

Results

Heats

Qualification: First 2 of each heat (Q) plus the 2 fastest times (q) advance to the final. [6]

RankHeatLaneNationAthletesTimeNotes
124Flag of the United States.svg  United States  (USA) Phyllis Francis, Jessica Beard, Sanya Richards-Ross, Francena McCorory 3:23.05 Q
218Flag of Nigeria.svg  Nigeria  (NGR) Regina George, Funke Oladoye, Tosin Adeloye, Patience Okon George 3:23.27 Q, SB
314Flag of Jamaica.svg  Jamaica  (JAM) Anastasia Le-Roy, Shericka Jackson, Chrisann Gordon, Christine Day 3:23.62 Q
412Flag of Russia.svg  Russia  (RUS) Mariya Mikhailyuk, Ksenia Zadorina, Ekaterina Renzhina, Kseniya Aksyonova 3:23.75 Q, SB
529Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Great Britain & N.I.  (GBR) Eilidh Child, Anyika Onuora, Kirsten McAslan, Seren Bundy-Davies 3:23.90 Q, SB
623Flag of France.svg  France  (FRA) Estelle Perrossier, Marie Gayot, Agnès Raharolahy, Floria Gueï 3:24.86 Q, SB
722Flag of Ukraine.svg  Ukraine  (UKR) Yuliya Olishevska, Olha Bibik, Olha Zemlyak, Olha Lyakhova 3:26.01 q, SB
813Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada  (CAN) Carline Muir, Aiyanna Stiverne, Sage Watson, Nicole Sassine 3:26.14 q, SB
927Flag of Italy.svg  Italy  (ITA) Maria Benedicta Chigbolu, Elena Maria Bonfanti, Ayomide Folorunso, Chiara Bazzoni 3:27.07 SB
1028Flag of the Bahamas.svg  Bahamas  (BAH) Lanece Clarke, Christine Amertil, Katrina Seymour, Shaunae Miller 3:28.46 NR
1117Flag of Romania.svg  Romania  (ROM) Andreea Grecu, Anamaria Ioniță, Sanda Belgyan, Bianca Răzor 3:28.60 SB
1216Flag of Australia.svg  Australia  (AUS) Anneliese Rubie, Jessica Gulli, Lauren Wells, Morgan Mitchell 3:28.61 SB
1326Flag of Japan.svg  Japan  (JPN) Seika Aoyama, Kana Ichikawa, Asami Chiba, Sayaka Aoki 3:28.91 NR
1425Flag of India.svg  India  (IND) Jisna Mathew, Tintu Lukka, Debasree Majumdar, M. R. Poovamma 3:29.08 SB
1519Flag of Poland.svg  Poland  (POL) Małgorzata Hołub, Patrycja Wyciszkiewicz, Joanna Linkiewicz, Justyna Święty 3:32.83
1615Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China  (CHN) Huang Guifen, Wang Huan, Li Xue, Cheng Chong 3:34.98

Final

The final was held at 20:05 [7]

RankLaneNationAthletesTimeNotes
Gold medal icon.svg6Flag of Jamaica.svg  Jamaica  (JAM) Christine Day, Shericka Jackson, Stephenie Ann McPherson, Novlene Williams-Mills 3:19.13 WL
Silver medal icon.svg4Flag of the United States.svg  United States  (USA) Sanya Richards-Ross, Natasha Hastings, Allyson Felix, Francena McCorory 3:19.44
Bronze medal icon.svg5Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Great Britain & N.I.  (GBR) Christine Ohuruogu, Anyika Onuora, Eilidh Child, Seren Bundy-Davies 3:23.62 SB
48Flag of Russia.svg  Russia  (RUS) Nadezhda Kotlyarova, Ksenia Zadorina, Kseniya Ryzhova, Kseniya Aksyonova 3:24.84
57Flag of Nigeria.svg  Nigeria  (NGR) Regina George, Funke Oladoye, Tosin Adeloye, Patience Okon George 3:25.11
62Flag of Ukraine.svg  Ukraine  (UKR) Olha Zemlyak, Nataliia Lupu, Nataliya Pyhyda, Olha Lyakhova 3:25.94 SB
79Flag of France.svg  France  (FRA) Estelle Perrossier, Marie Gayot, Agnès Raharolahy, Floria Gueï 3:26.45
83Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada  (CAN) Carline Muir, Aiyanna Stiverne, Sage Watson, Audrey Jean-Baptiste 3:27.69

References

  1. "Beijing 2015: Timetable". Beijing 2015. 11 August 2015. Archived from the original on 1 December 2014. Retrieved 10 August 2015.
  2. Start list
  3. "REPORT: WOMEN'S 4X400M FINAL – IAAF WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS, BEIJING 2015". iaaf.org. 30 August 2015. Retrieved 2 September 2015.
  4. "Records & Lists – 4x400 metres relay". IAAF . Retrieved 18 August 2015.
  5. IAAF World Championships Beijing 2015 – Standards (PDF), IAAF, 2014, retrieved 18 August 2015
  6. Heats results
  7. Final results