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2001 World Championships in Athletics Edmonton, Canada

2001 8th IAAF World Championships - Edmonton - Women's 4 x 400m

 

 

Host City: Edmonton, Alberta, Canada Format: First round (First 3 & 2 fastest to final) (Aug 11)
Dates: August 3–12, 2001
Nations participating: 189
Athletes participating: 1677
    Main venue: Commonwealth Stadium
Overview by IAAF    EDMONTON STADIUM
Jamaica, a country with a share of bad luck in World Championship and Olympic relays, benefited from a terrible mistake by the United States anchor runner. The race started well for the USA when MilesClark – seeking a fifth successive world relay medal – opened up with a 50.2 first leg. Hennagan moved further away with a 49.7 on the second leg, and Collins held a 10m advantage over Parris. halfway through the third stage. Parris herself was 10m up on the Germans, and the Jamaican then closed slightly on Collins. The US anchor runner Reid would have wanted a cushion over her Jamaican counterpart, who was the World and Olympic silver medallist Fenton. Collins delivered a 7m advantage, then suddenly Fenton emerged as the clear leader on the first bend. The Unfortunate Reid had received the baton safely, but then dropped it when passing it from her left to her right hand. It bounced behind her onto the infield and by the time she retrieved it, 40m and a certain medal had been lost. Jamaican went on to win in a Commonwealth record of 3:20.65. Observers felt that without the dropped baton, there would have been a great race between Fenton and Reid. A month later at the Goodwill Games in Brisbane, the same teams clashed again with the US defeating Jamaica 3:24.63 to 3:24.87.
 These are the official results of the Women's 4x400 metres event at the 2001 IAAF World Championships in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
 
  4 x 400m 12 August
Women's 4x400m final
An extraordinary incident, in which the USA's Suziann REID dropped the baton at the start of the fourth leg of the women's 4x400m relay final, handed the gold medal to Jamaica and saw the USA team finish outside the medal positions for the first time at a World Championships since 1983.
Jamaica's individual Olympic 400m silver medallist Lorraine FENTON seized the opportunity from REID's error and stormed round the last leg to record a gold winning 3:20.65 for her team, the fastest time in the world since 1993 and the seventh fastest ever. Germany came home in second, some 20 metres behind, in 3:21.97, a season's best. Russia also benefited from the USA's bizarre baton dropping to take the bronze in 3:24.92.
Joy WILLIAMS went off hard in lane one on the first leg for Canada, with Jamaica and Russia also starting well. But, inevitably, at the first exchange it was the USA's Monique HENNAGAN who came away with the baton in the lead. At the break on the back straight of the second leg HENNAGAN was five metres ahead of Jamaica's Catherine SCOTT, with Germany in third and France 10 metres down in fourth.
At this stage the three leading teams appeared to have the medals sewn up. And with Michelle COLLINS's third leg for the USA they were favourite to regain the gold they last won in Gothenburg in 1995. COLLINS set off with a five metre advantage over Jamaica's Debbie-Ann PARRIS, with Germany's Claudia MARX another five metres behind her. A gap of some 25 metres separated these three from Great Britain in fourth.
But the drama was yet to come. PARRIS made up ground on COLLINS in the closing metres of the third leg, but USA still had a good lead as COLLINS handed the baton to REID. REID took it safely in her left hand then switched it to her right as she turned to set off. But she couldn't get a firm grip in her right, and the stick juggled and bounced from her fingers, flying off to the left and crashing inside the edge of the track.
FENTON flew past her with BREUER in chase as Russia's Olesya ZYKINA came through hard into third place. By the time REID had retrieved the baton and got into her running she was back in fourth and chasing a minor medal, at best.
FENTON powered home for Jamaica's first ever gold at this event as the unfortunate REID could do nothing to make up for her mistake, even losing fourth place at one stage to Great Britain's Catherine MURPHY. She recovered that position with a dip on the line, but it was little compensation for her or her team mates.
  Final
1 Sandie Richards 50.9, Catherine Scott 50.1, Debbie Parris-Thymes 49.70, Lorraine Fenton 49.95 JAM 3.20.65 AR
2 Florence Ekpo-Umoh 51.7, Shanta Ghosh 50.0, Claudia Marx 50.61, Grit Breuer 49.65 GER 3.21.97  
3 Irina Rosikhina 52.6, Yuliya Pechonkina 50.6, Anastasiya Kapachinskaya 51.11, Olesya Zykina 50.56 RUS 3.24.92  
4 Jearl Miles-Clark 50.2, Monique Hennagan 49.7, Michelle Collins 49.96, Suziann Reid 57.01 USA 3.26.88  
5 Lee McConnell 52.2, Helen Frost 51.1, Tasha Danvers 51.97, Catherine Murphy 51.65 GBR 3.26.94  
6 Francine Landre 51.8, Anita Mormand 51.9, Sylvanie Morandais 51.97, Marie-Louise Bévis 51.84 FRA 3.27.54  
7 Aleksandra Pieluzek 53.2, Grażyna Prokopek-Janáček 50.8, Aneta Lemiesz 52.05, Małgorzata Pskit 51.74 POL 3.27.78  
8 Foy Williams 52.33, Samantha George 51.38, Danielle Kot 52.83, LaDonna Antoine-Watkins 51.39 CAN 3.27.93  
  Heats 11 August
Women's 4x400m relay heats
The United States confirmed their favouritism for the women's 4x400m relay when they ran the second fastest time of the year in heat one.
The Americans, lacking stars but containing depth, beat Jamaica with 3:21.97. The Jamaican team were last at the second change but made up this ground courtesy of their last two athletes, hurdler Deon HEMMINGS and Sandie RICHRADS, who brought the team home in 3:24.87. Third were Canada who qualified with a national record of 3:25.68.
Germany won the second heat after moving in to second on the second leg then first on the final leg as Grit BREUER and Donna FRASER (GBR) battled up the straight. The Germans ran 3:26.81. FRASER claimed second in 3:27.25, a season's best, and the fast finishing Russians qualified in third with 3:27.39. Despite leading at the first change and having individual gold medallist Amy Mbacke THIAM on the anchor leg, Senegal did not qualify.
  Heat 1
1 Demetria Davis, Michelle Collins, Mikele Barber, Suziann Reid USA 3.21.97 Q  
2 Michelle Burgher, Catherine Scott, Deon Hemmings, Sandie Richards JAM 3.24.87 Q  
3 Foy Williams, Samantha George, Danielle Kot, LaDonna Antoine-Watkins CAN 3.25.68 Q  
4 Francine Landre, Anita Mormand, Sylvanie Morandais, Marie-Louise Bévis FRA 3.26.92 q  
5 Aleksandra Pieluzek, Grażyna Prokopek-Janáček, Aneta Lemiesz, Małgorzata Pskit POL 3.27.37 q  
6 Mixed nationalities: Yudalis Díaz, Julia Duporty, Libania Grenot ITA, Daimí Pernía CUB 3.28.68  
7 Militza Castro, Yvonne Harrison, Sandra Moya, Yamelis Ortiz PUR 3.30.81 NR
  Heat 2
1 Florence Ekpo-Umoh, Shanta Ghosh, Claudia Marx, Grit Breuer GER 3.26.81 Q  
2 Lee McConnell, Lesley Owusu, Catherine Murphy, Donna Fraser GBR 3.27.25 Q  
3 Natalya Shevtsova, Irina Rosikhina, Anastasiya Kapachinskaya, Olesya Zykina RUS 3.27.39 Q  
4 Natallia Safronnikava, Sviatlana Usovich, Iryna Khliustava, Anna Kozak BLR 3.28.93  
5 Aïda Diop, Tacko Diouf, Fatou Binetou Fall, Amy Mbacké Thiam SEN 3.30.03  
6 Miho Sato, Kazue Kakinuma, Sakie Nobuoka, Makiko Yoshida JPN 3.33.51  
7 Julia Alba, Norfalia Carabalí, Miriam Bravo, Yolanda Reyes ESP 3.33.78  
 

Heat 1 11 AUG 2001 16:15

Order / LaneATHLETECOUNTRYPBSB 2001
2 Jamaica JAM JAM 3:21.30 3:25.33
3 Canada CAN CAN 3:21.21 3:31.08
4 United States USA USA 3:15.51 3:29.57
5 Puerto Rico PUR PUR 3:33.30 3:36.07
6 Poland POL POL 3:24.65 3:28.97
7 France FRA FRA 3:22.34 3:26.23
8 Cuba CUB CUB 3:24.23  

Heat 2 11 AUG 2001 16:25

Order / LaneATHLETECOUNTRYPBSB 2001
2 Germany GER GER 3:20.92 3:23.81
3 Japan JPN JPN 3:33.06 3:33.06
4 Great Britain & N.I. GBR GBR 3:22.01 3:28.15
5 Spain ESP ESP 3:27.57 3:34.71
6 Senegal SEN SEN 3:28.02  
7 Russia RUS RUS 3:18.38 3:24.58
8 Belarus BLR BLR 3:26.31 3:28.17
 
 
 
 
 

 

 

 

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