After Wallace Spearman of the USA Blue team playfully goads the partisan Jamaican crowd, we are now underway.
Kerron Clement hands off first for USA Red, which leads the whole way. Christopher Brown of the Bahamas challenged late, but Olympic champion LaShawn Merritt had it under control with a final burst, locking up a 2:59.78 to [...]
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USA vs the World: Men’s 4×400
April 25, 2009USA vs the World: Women’s 4×400
April 25, 2009After an impressive third leg from Allyson Felix (49.64 — fastest of the day), USA Red’s Sanya Richards had a cakewalk to wrap up an eighth straight win for an American team in this series. The time: 3:23.08.
Novlene Williams-Mills gave it a great effort on Jamaica’s third leg, but ultimately could not match the impossibly [...]
College Men’s 4×400 Championship
April 25, 2009Another wire-to-wire victory. Florida State blasts out early and holds off a late charge from St. Augustine’s for a 3:01.54 to 3:02.10. Those are the 3rd and =6th best times in Penn history. Results.
College Women’s 4×400 Championship
April 25, 2009Event #256, the College Women’s Championship. We have had a number of fast times today, and the college women should not disappoint (although there is a breeze here at Franklin Field now).
The leading qualifier was UTech from Jamaica in 3:34, but Texas A&M and Florida State are right on their heels with 3:36 and 3:37.
At [...]
High School Boys 4×400 Championship
April 25, 2009As an appetizer, we’ve got the Philadelphia Area race. Abington win in 3:18.54, with Chester second in 3:19.18. Results.
Next up is the Championship of America, featuring five teams from Jamaica and one each from Pennsylvania, Virginia and California.
St. Jago went wire-to-wire, holding off several challenges, to win in 3:12.55. Results.
High School Boys 4×400 Heats
April 25, 2009OK, here we go: For the next four hours we’ve got heats of the high school boys 4×400.
We’ll keep you posted on the top times. You can find the running ranked list here.
It took 25 sections, but we have our first sub-3:20 of the day, Fordham Prep at 3:18.68.
And now the Jamaican teams are starting [...]
High School Girls 4×400 Championship
April 24, 2009After two straight victories by Eleanor Roosevelt of Maryland, we have a new champion. Holmwood Tech and Manchester dueled the whole way, but they forgot about Edwin Allen, whose anchor, Ristanna Tracey came on strong and passed her fellow Jamaicans less than 50 meters from the line for a 3:41.25 victory. Edwin Allen wins the [...]
College 4×400 Men’s Heats
April 24, 2009Our next event consists of the qualifying heats in the college 4×400.
Heat 1 featured some great times: Florida State, 3:05.83, Texas A&M 3:07.92, TCU, 3:08.29
Heat 2: LSU 3:06.07, St. Augustine’s 3:06:39, Kentucky 3:07.27
Heat 3: South Carolina 3:06.26, Texas Tech 3:07.26, Florida 3:09.61
You can follow along on the ranked list here.
College Women’s 4×400 Heats
April 23, 2009Next up are the college women’s 4×4 qualifying races.
Texas Christian held off Miami (FL) down the stretch to win the first heat, 3:39.25 to 3:40.15.
University of Technology of Jamaica goes 3:34.99 to win the second heat over Texas A&M (3:36.19).
LSU cruises to an easy win in heat 3 (3:40.18).
Heat 4 goes to Villanova (3:46.53).
Cornell won [...]
Qualifier Alert: High School Girls 4×400 Championship
April 23, 2009Qualifiers for the high school girls 4×400 Championship are now posted here.
The race will be held Friday at 6:15 pm.
