2017 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 4 × 400 metres relay

The men's 4 × 400 metres relay at the 2017 World Championships in Athletics was held at the London Olympic Stadium on 12 August.[1]

Men's 4 × 400 metres relay
at the 2017 World Championships
VenueOlympic Stadium
Dates12 August (heats)
13 August (final)
Competitors69 from 16 nations
Winning time2:58.12
Medalists
    Trinidad and Tobago
    United States
    Great Britain

Summary

The final race of the World Championships started fairly even, with USA's Wilbert London III and Britain's Matthew Hudson-Smith gaining slightly on the stagger on the inside, while Spain's Óscar Husillos was gaining on Trinidad and Tobago's Jarrin Solomon further toward the outside. Belgium's Robin Vanderbemden also looked to be having a strong leg all alone in lane 9. Coming down the homestretch, London sped up to have the USA the handoff first to Gil Roberts. Roberts came around the turn to take a 3-metre lead at the break, followed by GBR's Rabah Yousif and Spain's Lucas Búa, TTO's Jereem Richards was on the outside passing people. Into the far turn, he had beaten Yousif and kept going making up the gap on Roberts getting to within a metre. Down the homestretch, Roberts again opened up the gap, handing off to Michael Cherry three metres ahead of Trinidad and Tobago's handoff to Machel Cedenio. Great Britain's handoff to Dwayne Cowan was just a metre back as the top three teams had separated from the rest of the contenders. Through most of the lap, Cherry held a five-metre lead while Cowan was challenging Cedenio. Cedenio held off Cowan then on the homestretch he separated, making a run at Cherry. USA passed to Fred Kerley barely a metre ahead of TTO's pass to Lalonde Gordon. Kerley was the anchor runner of the fastest 4x400 relay of the year prior to the championships, running for Texas A&M at the end of the college season more than two months earlier. Kerley held that one-metre lead down the backstretch, then widened it slightly through the final turn. Behind Gordon, GBR's Martyn Rooney was closing down the gap to bring his team to within a metre coming off the turn. Kerley straightened up and ran tight for the finish while Gordon went to the outside for running room and ran past him, pulling away to a decisive 3-metre victory. Kerley maintained his distance from Rooney to get silver for USA. GBR's Rooney finished 8 metres ahead of the Belgian team, which included three Borlée brothers.

Records

Before the competition records were as follows:[2]

RecordPerf.TeamDateLocation
World 2:54.29  United States
Andrew Valmon, Quincy Watts, Butch Reynolds, Michael Duane Johnson
22 Aug 1993 Stuttgart, Germany
Championship
World leading 2:59.95 Texas A&M University
Richard Rose, My'Lik Kerley, Robert Grant, Fred Kerley
7 Jun 2017 Eugene, United States
African 2:58.68  Nigeria
Clement Chukwu, Jude Monye, Sunday Bada, Enefiok Udo-Obong
30 Sep 2000 Sydney, Australia
Asian 3:00.76  Japan
Shunji Karube, Koji Ito, Jun Osakada, Shigekazu Omori
3 Aug 1996 Atlanta, United States
NACAC 2:54.29  United States
Andrew Valmon, Quincy Watts, Harry Reynolds, Michael Johnson
22 Aug 1993 Stuttgart, Germany
South American 2:58.56  Brazil
Eronilde de Araújo, Cleverson da Silva, Claudinei da Silva, Sanderlei Parrela
30 Jul 1999 Winnipeg, Canada
European 2:56.60  Great Britain
Iwan Thomas, Mark Richardson, Jamie Baulch, Roger Black
3 Aug 1996 Atlanta, United States
Oceanian 2:59.70  Australia
Bruce Frayne, Gary Minihan, Rick Mitchell, Darren Clark
11 Aug 1984 Los Angeles, United States

The following records were set at the competition:[3]

RecordPerf.TeamDate
World leading 2:58.12  Trinidad and Tobago
Jarrin Solomon, Jereem Richards, Machel Cedenio, Lalonde Gordon
13 Aug 2017
Trinidad and Tobago
World leading 2:59.23  United States
Wilbert London III, Bryshon Nellum, Michael Cherry, Tony McQuay
12 Aug 2017
Spanish 3:00.65  Spain
Óscar Husillos, Lucas Búa, Darwin Echeverry, Samuel García
13 Aug 2017

Qualification criteria

The first eight placed teams at the 2017 IAAF World Relays and the host country qualify automatically for entry with remaining places being filled by teams with the fastest performances during the qualification period.[4]

Schedule

The event schedule, in local time (UTC+1), is as follows:[5]

Date Time Round
12 August11:50Heats
13 August21:15Final

Results

Heats

The first round took place on 12 August in two heats as follows:[6]

Heat12
Start time 11:5012:00
Photo finish

The first three in each heat ( Q ) and the next two fastest ( q ) qualified for the final. The overall results were as follows:[7]

RankHeatLaneNationAthletesTimeNotes
129 United States (USA)Wilbert London III, Bryshon Nellum, Michael Cherry, Tony McQuay2:59.23Q, WL
228 Trinidad and Tobago (TTO)Renny Quow, Jereem Richards, Machel Cedenio, Lalonde Gordon2:59.35Q, SB
323 Belgium (BEL)Dylan Borlée, Jonathan Borlée, Robin Vanderbemden, Kevin Borlée2:59.47Q, SB
426 Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)Rabah Yousif, Dwayne Cowan, Jack Green, Martyn Rooney3:00.10q, SB
524 France (FRA)Ludvy Vaillant, Thomas Jordier, Mamoudou Hanne, Teddy Atine-Venel3:00.93q, SB
619 Spain (ESP)Óscar Husillos, Lucas Búa, Darwin Echeverry, Samuel García3:01.72Q, SB
717 Poland (POL)Kajetan Duszyński, Łukasz Krawczuk, Tymoteusz Zimny, Rafał Omelko3:01.78Q, SB
815 Cuba (CUB)William Collazo, Adrian Chacón, Leandro Zamora, Yoandys Lescay3:01.88Q, SB
918 Jamaica (JAM)Peter Matthews, Steven Gayle, Jamari Rose, Rusheen McDonald3:01.98SB
1013 India (IND)Kunhu Muhammed, Amoj Jacob, Mohammad Anas, Arokia Rajiv3:02.80SB
1114 Bahamas (BAH)Alonzo Russell, Michael Mathieu, O'Jay Ferguson, Ramon Miller3:03.04SB
1212 Colombia (COL)Jhon Alexander Solís, Diego Palomeque, Yilmar Herrera, Jhon Perlaza3:03.68SB
1325 Brazil (BRA)Lucas Carvalho, Alexander Russo, Anderson Henriques, Hugo de Sousa3:04.02SB
1427 Botswana (BOT)Onkabetse Nkobolo, Baboloki Thebe, Nijel Amos, Karabo Sibanda3:06.50
1522 Japan (JPN)Kentaro Sato, Yuzo Kanemaru, Kazushi Kimura, Kosuke Horii3:07.29
1616 Turkey (TUR)Ahmet Kasap, Batuhan Altıntaş, Mahsum Korkmaz, Yavuz Can3:15.45

Final

The final took place on 13 August at 22:20. The results were as follows (photo finish):[8]

RankLaneNationAthletesTimeNotes
7 Trinidad and Tobago (TTO)Jarrin Solomon, Jereem Richards, Machel Cedenio, Lalonde Gordon2:58.12WL, NR
4 United States (USA)Wilbert London III, Gil Roberts, Michael Cherry, Fred Kerley2:58.61SB
3 Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)Matthew Hudson-Smith, Rabah Yousif, Dwayne Cowan, Martyn Rooney2:59.00SB
49 Belgium (BEL)Robin Vanderbemden, Jonathan Borlée, Dylan Borlée, Kevin Borlée3:00.04
56 Spain (ESP)Óscar Husillos, Lucas Búa, Darwin Echeverry, Samuel García3:00.65NR
68 Cuba (CUB)William Collazo, Adrian Chacón, Osmaidel Pellicier, Yoandys Lescay3:01.10SB
75 Poland (POL)Kajetan Duszyński, Rafał Omelko, Łukasz Krawczuk, Tymoteusz Zimny3:01.59SB
82 France (FRA)Ludvy Vaillant, Thomas Jordier, Mamoudou Hanne, Teddy Atine-Venel3:01.79

References

  1. Start list
  2. "4x400 Metres Relay Men – Records". IAAF. Retrieved 31 July 2017.
  3. "Records Set - Final" (PDF). IAAF. Retrieved 14 August 2017.
  4. "Qualification System and Entry Standards" (PDF). IAAF. Retrieved 9 August 2017.
  5. "4x400 Metres Relay Men − Timetable". IAAF. Retrieved 9 August 2017.
  6. "4x400 Metres Relay Men − Heats − Results" (PDF). IAAF. Retrieved 14 August 2017.
  7. "4x400 Metres Relay Men − Heats − Summary" (PDF). IAAF. Retrieved 14 August 2017.
  8. "4x400 Metres Relay Men − Final− Results" (PDF). IAAF. Retrieved 14 August 2017.
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