Following the women, we’ll have the men on the track in the 4×400. This will be Penn’s first view of Jeremy Wariner, anchoring the top US team.
The US has two excellent teams. The USA Blue team has LaShawn Merritt, Wallace Spearmon, Darold Williamson, and Jeremy Wariner. However, the USA Red team is [...]
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USA vs. The World: Men’s 4×400
April 26, 2008USA vs. The World: Women’s 4×400
April 26, 2008Running for the USA Blue: Mary Wineberg, Allyson Felix, Natasha Hastings, Sanya Richards. That’s three-quarters of the team that won gold at the 2007 world championships. (Hastings didn’t run the final; DeeDee Trotter did.)
Wineberg hands off to Felix in first with Jamaica trailing.
Felix’ long, long strides blew the lead up to 30 meters at the [...]
USA vs. The World: Men’s Distance Medley
April 26, 2008Here are the line-ups (1200-400-800-1600):
Canada — Matt Lincoln, Adam Johnson, Andrew Heaney, Taylor Milne
Kenya — Boaz Cheboiywo, Thomas Musembi, Jackson Kivuna, Josephat Kithii
USA Blue — Nick Symmonds, David Neville, Jonathan Johnson, Christian Smith
USA Red — Kevin Hicks, Andrew Rock, Chris Lukezic, Sean O’Brien
World All-Stars — Christoph Lohse, Brian Steele, Ismael Kombich, Boniface Songok
And they’re [...]
USA vs. The World: Men’s 4×100
April 26, 2008Our fastest race of the day is the pro USA vs. the World 4×100.
We have a number of fast teams entered, including national teams from the United States, Jamaica, the Bahamas, the Netherlands Antilles, Trinidad and Tobago, Canada, and Great Britain. According to our lineups, Tyson Gay and Shawn Crawford will be anchoring the [...]
USA vs. The World: Women’s 4×100
April 26, 2008The USA leads Jamaica in this series, 6-2.
It turned out to be the the Allyson Felix—Sanya Richards match-up everyone wanted. Felix anchored USA Red to victory in 42.57, but Richards was right on her heels the whole way, finishing off USA Blue in 42.64. Jamaica was third in 43.31.
For the Red it was Lauryn WIlliams, [...]
USA vs. World: Women’s Sprint Medley
April 26, 2008Our first professional “USA vs. the World Event” is the Women’s Sprint Medley. The World Best was set at the Penn Relays in this event by a USA team in 2006.
We have five teams, two from the US, Jamaica, Canada, and an All-Star team consisting of Caribbean and Central American athletes. This could [...]
USA -vs- The World Lineups
April 26, 2008Women’s 4×100m Lineup
USA White — Angela Williams, Marshevet Hooker, Alexis Joyce, Mechelle Lewis
All Stars — Lavern Jones, Sherry Fletcher, Schillonie Calvert, Oludamola Osayomi
USA Red — Lauryn Williams, Miki Barber, Lisa Barber, Allyson Felix
Trinidad — Semoy Hackett, Sasha Springer, Reyare Thomas, Ayanna Hutchinson
USA Blue — Muna Lee, Torri Edwards, Carmelita Jeter, Sanya Richards
Jamaica — Kerron Stewart, [...]
