2017 IAAF World Relays – Women's 4 × 200 metres relay

The women's 4 × 200 metres relay at the 2017 IAAF World Relays was held at the Thomas Robinson Stadium on 22–23 April.

Women's 4 × 200 metres relay
at the 2014 IAAF World Relays
VenueThomas Robinson Stadium
Dates22 April (heats), 23 April (final)
Competitors36 from 9 nations
Medalists
    Jamaica
    Germany
    United States

The heats were held only to eliminate one team to make a field of eight. That team turned out to be Kenya, whose national record still fell almost 6 seconds behind as a time qualifier.

After being beaten by Nigeria two years earlier, Jamaica took this race seriously. Out of the blocks Jura Levy opened up a gap on the US to her inside and gained on Trinidad and Tobago's Kamaria Durant to her outside. Passing to Shericka Jackson well into the second turn of the four turn stagger race, Jamaica had already made up the offset on both teams to their outside. Jackson slightly pulled away from the last visible competitor, China's Liang Xiaojing already down a full lap's stagger two lanes away. Jackson passed to Sashalee Forbes almost alone. More than 10 metres behind, Germany's Tatjana Pinto passed to Rebekka Haase and USA's Tiffany Townsend passed to Felicia Brown about even. Through the next leg Forbes was all alone while Hasse caught and edge ahead of Townsend to her outside before Townsend caught back up. Out front, Forbes passed to Elaine Thompson before any other team's anchor runner even had started to move. With almost a 15-metre lead, and the double Olympic Champion on anchor, victory was assured. Townsend regained her stagger advantage and a little more going into the USA handoff to Shalonda Solomon but Germany's Gina Lückenkemper quickly gained through the turn opening up a 2-metre lead. Thompson merely extended lead for an easy Jamaican win. Behind her, Solomon accelerated but was only able to close down less than a metre, Lückenkemper getting silver for Germany.

Records

Prior to the competition, the records were as follows:

World record  United States Blue
(LaTasha Jenkins, LaTasha Colander, Nanceen Perry, Marion Jones)
1:27.46 Philadelphia, United States 29 April 2000
Championship record  United States
(Shalonda Solomon, Tawanna Meadows, Bianca Knight, Kimberlyn Duncan)
1:29.45 Nassau, Bahamas 25 May 2014
World Leading Tumbleweed Track Club
(Desiree Henry  United Kingdom, Anyika Onuora  United Kingdom, Tianna Bartoletta  United States, Dafne Schippers  Netherlands)
1:28.77 Gainesville, United States 1 April 2017
African Record  Nigeria
(Blessing Okagbare, Regina George, Dominique Duncan, Christy Udoh)
1:30.52 Nassau, Bahamas 2 May 2015
Asian Record  China
(Yuan Qiqi, Kong Lingwei, Liang Xiaojing, Lin Huijun)
1:34.89 Nassau, Bahamas 2 May 2015
North, Central American and Caribbean record  United States Blue
(LaTasha Jenkins, LaTasha Colander, Nanceen Perry, Marion Jones)
1:27.46 Philadelphia, United States 29 April 2000
South American Record No official record
European Record  East Germany
(Marlies Göhr, Romy Müller, Bärbel Wöckel, Marita Koch)
1:28.15 Jena, East Germany 9 August 1980
Oceanian record No official record

Schedule

Date Time Round
22 April 201721:40Heat 1

All times are local times (UTC−4)

Results

KEY: WLWorld leading ARArea record NRNational record SBSeasonal best

Heats

Qualification: First 2 of each heat (Q) plus the 2 fastest times (q) advanced to the final.[1]

RankHeat 1LaneNationAthletesTimeNotes
114 United StatesDezerea Bryant, Tiffany Townsend, Felicia Brown, Phyllis Francis1:31.04Q
213 GermanyLara Matheis, Alexandra Burghardt, Rebekka Haase, Lisa Mayer1:31.16Q, SB
324 JamaicaElaine Thompson, Shericka Jackson, Jura Levy, Anastasia Le-Roy1:31.29Q, SB
415 Trinidad and TobagoKamaria Durant, Semoy Hackett, Reyare Thomas, Michelle-Lee Ahye1:32.62Q, NR
523 NigeriaJennifer Madu, Patience George, Dominique Duncan, Ugonna Ndu1:33.78Q, SB
626 ChinaTao Yujia, Zhou Yanbing, Tian Wen, Wei Yongli1:33.99Q, AR
717 FranceJennifer Galais, Estelle Raffai, Fanny Peltier, Estelle Perrossier1:34.18q, SB
824 British Virgin IslandsNelda Huggins, Tahesia Harrigan-Scott, Karene King, Ashley Kelly1:34.92q, NR
916 KenyaMaximila Imali, Mary Chepkoech, Peris Wairimu Chege, Damaris Akoth1:40.65NR

Final

The final was started at 23:32.[2]

RankLaneNationAthletesTimeNotesPoints
6 JamaicaJura Levy, Shericka Jackson, Sashalee Forbes, Elaine Thompson,1:29.04CR8
3 GermanyLara Matheis, Tatjana Pinto, Rebekka Haase, Gina Lückenkemper1:30.68SB7
4 United StatesDezerea Bryant, Tiffany Townsend, Felicia Brown, Shalonda Solomon1:30.876
47 Trinidad and TobagoKamaria Durant, Semoy Hackett, Reyare Thomas, Kai Selvon1:32.635
55 NigeriaJennifer Madu, Patience George, Dominique Duncan, Ugonna Ndu1:33.08SB4
61 FranceJennifer Galais, Estelle Raffai, Fanny Peltier, Estelle Perrossier1:35.113
72 British Virgin IslandsNelda Huggins, Tahesia Harrigan-Scott, Karene King, Ashley Kelly1:35.352
85 ChinaTao Yujia, Liang Xiaojing, Tian Wen, Yuan Qiqi1:37.601

References

  1. "Results" (PDF). media.aws.iaaf.org. 2017. Retrieved 2019-08-05.
  2. "Final Results" (PDF).
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