4_×_800_metres_relay

4 × 800 metres relay

4 × 800 metres relay

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The 4 × 800 metres relay is an athletics track event in which teams consist of four runners who each complete 800 metres or 2 laps on a standard 400 metre track.

The IAAF ratifies world records in the event and it became a world championship event in 2014 as part of the IAAF World Relays.

The men's world record is 7:02.43 by a Kenyan team of Joseph Mutua, William Yiampoy, Ismael Kombich and Wilfred Bungei, set August 25, 2006, at the Memorial Van Damme meet in Brussels, Belgium. The women's world record is 7:50.17, set by a team representing the Soviet Union, Nadiya Olizarenko, Lyubov Gurina, Lyudmila Borisova and Irina Podyalovskaya on August 15, 1984, in Moscow.[1]

All-time top 15

Men

  • Updated September 2021.[2]
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Women

  • Updated September 2021.[3]
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References

  1. [1]
    "100 Metres - women - senior - outdoor - 2021". www.worldathletics.org.
  2. [2]
    "All-time men's best 4 × 800m Relay". 9 September 2021. Archived from the original on 28 May 2006. Retrieved 9 September 2021.
  3. [3]
    "All-time women's best 4 × 800m Relay". 9 September 2021. Archived from the original on 7 July 2011. Retrieved 9 September 2021.
  4. [4]
    "Women's 4×800m Relay Results" (PDF). IAAF. 3 May 2015. Retrieved 6 May 2015.


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