2015 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 4 × 400 metres relay

None May 2026 Women's 4 × 400 metres relay 2015 World Championships 4x400 m women final Beijing 2015.jpg The finish, Novlene Williams-Mills celebrates ahead of Francena McCorory Beijing National Stadium 29 August (heats)30 August (final) 74 16 3:19.13 Christine DayShericka JacksonStephenie Ann McPhersonNovlene Williams-MillsAnastasia Le-Roy*Chrisann Gordon* JAM Sanya Richards-RossNatasha HastingsAllyson FelixFrancena McCororyPhyllis Francis*Jessica Beard* USA Christine OhuruoguAnyika OnuoraEilidh ChildSeren Bundy-DaviesKirsten McAslan* GBR 2013 2017 thumb|110px|0RGAamJvKC0Official Video The women's 4 × 400 metres relay at the 2015 World Championships in Athletics was held at the Beijing National Stadium on 29 and 30 August.http://www.iaafbeijing2015.com/special/iaaf_sch_en/ https://web.archive.org/web/20141201205133/http://www.iaafbeijing2015.com/special/iaaf_sch_en/ dead 1 December 2014 Beijing 2015: Timetable 11 August 2015 10 August 2015 Beijing 2015 Start list Summary The Jamaican team announced their intention to win this race early in the championships by placing all four of their relay team members in the top six of the final of the 400 metres. The American squad had two women in that same race, one of them the winner Allyson Felix. Their ace in the hole was having the top two in the world, prior to the American championships, fail to make the individual event but were available for the relay. Both Olympic Champion Sanya Richards-Ross and World Indoor Champion Francena McCorory demonstrated their occasional ability to run excellent 350 meter races in that meet, their flailing last 50 metres is why they didn't qualify for the individual race. All the other teams ran their season best just to make the finals, Bahamas and Japan set National Records and still failed to qualify. In the final, it was a reminder of 2008 on this same track as Richards-Ross was out aggressively, making up the stagger on Christine Ohuruogu and when she hit the home stretch, she was out of gas. Meanwhile, to their outside, Christine Day was running smoothly to give Jamaica a big lead, Shericka Jackson. Natasha Hastings ran a quick turn to barely hold off Anyika Onuora at the break. Jackson started her leg conservatively, so the gap looked manageable, until she started cranking and the lead gap started growing. Jamaica had an almost two second lead when Jackson handed off to Stephenie Ann McPherson, Hastings helped the USA hold off the British team before handing off to the American's star, Felix. The gap looked impossible at the beginning but Felix closed it down. It took Felix 350 metres to catch McPherson, but it was a steady race throughout and when Felix got there she just continued on by, handing off to world #3 Francena McCorory with the lead. Jamaica had Novlene Williams-Mills on the anchor leg, starting 2 metres down. Down the backstretch and into the final turn, McCorory held the same gap on Williams-Mills, then through the turn the gap started to widen. Onto the home stretch, Williams-Mills moved out to lane 2 to look for running room. 70 metres before the finish, McCorory's arm movement got bigger but her legs got noticeably slower. Williams-Mills cruised on by a helpless McCorory with powerful sprint form across the line for gold. Well behind the leaders, the British team was challenged by Nigeria until Patience Okon George met with a similar collapse. While Seren Bundy-Davies carried the British home for bronze, George was overtaken at the line by Russia's Kseniya Aksyonova.http://www.iaaf.org/news/report/beijing-2015-women-4x400m-final REPORT: WOMEN’S 4X400M FINAL – IAAF WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS, BEIJING 2015 30 August 2015 iaaf.org 2 September 2015 Felix's leg was timed at 47.72 seconds, the fastest of her career and the third fastest women's relay leg ever measured, just .02 seconds off the fastest measured electronically. Records Prior to the competition, the records were as follows:http://www.iaaf.org/records/by-discipline/relays/4x400-metres-relay/outdoor/women Records & Lists – 4x400 metres relay IAAF 18 August 2015 World recordSoviet Union (Tatyana Ledovskaya, Olga Nazarova, Mariya Kulchunova, Olga Bryzgina)3:15.17Seoul, South Korea1 October 1988Championship recordUnited States (Gwen Torrence, Maicel Malone-Wallace, Natasha Kaiser-Brown, Jearl Miles Clark)3:16.71Stuttgart, Germany22 August 1993World leadingUnited States (Phyllis Francis, Natasha Hastings, Sanya Richards-Ross, Francena McCorory3:19.39 Nassau, Bahamas3 May 2015African recordNigeria (Olabisi Afolabi, Fatima Yusuf, Charity Opara, Falilat Ogunkoya)3:21.04Atlanta, United States3 August 1996Asian recordChina Hebei province(An Xiaohong, Bai Xiaoyun, Cao Chunying, Ma Yuqin)3:24.28Beijing, China13 September 1993North, Central American and Caribbean recordUnited States (Denean Howard-Hill, Diane Dixon, Valerie Brisco-Hooks, Florence Griffith Joyner)3:15.51Seoul, South Korea1 October 1988South American recordBrazil BM&F Bovespa(Geisa Aparecida Coutinho, Bárbara de Oliveira, Joelma Sousa, Jailma de Lima)3:26.68São Paulo, Brazil7 August 2011European recordSoviet Union (Tatyana Ledovskaya, Olga Nazarova, Mariya Kulchunova, Olga Bryzgina)3:15.17Seoul, South Korea1 October 1988Oceanian recordAustralia (Nova Peris, Tamsyn Manou, Melinda Gainsford-Taylor, Cathy Freeman)3:23.81Sydney, Australia30 September 2000The following records were established during the competition:World LeadingJamaica (Christine Day, Shericka Jackson, Stephenie Ann McPherson, Novlene Williams-Mills)3:19.13Beijing, China30 August 2015 Qualification standards Entry standards 2014 IAAF World Championships Beijing 2015 – Standards http://media.aws.iaaf.org/competitioninfo/544c7d0a-0807-4226-a85b-79928c58a097.pdf IAAF 18 August 2015 Top 8 at IWR+ 8 from Top Lists Schedule Date Time Round29 August 2015 10:15 Heats30 August 2015 20:05 Final All times are local times (UTC+8) Results Heats Qualification: First 2 of each heat (Q) plus the 2 fastest times (q) advance to the final.Heats results Rank Heat Lane Nation Athletes Time Notes 1 2 4 USA 2015 World Phyllis Francis, Jessica Beard, Sanya Richards-Ross, Francena McCorory 3:23.05 Q 2 1 8 NGR 2015 World Regina George, Funke Oladoye, Tosin Adeloye, Patience Okon George 3:23.27 Q, SB 3 1 4 JAM 2015 World Anastasia Le-Roy, Shericka Jackson, Chrisann Gordon, Christine Day 3:23.62 Q 4 1 2 RUS 2015 World Mariya Mikhailyuk, Ksenia Zadorina, Ekaterina Renzhina, Kseniya Aksyonova 3:23.75 Q, SB 5 2 9 GBR 2015 World Eilidh Child, Anyika Onuora, Kirsten McAslan, Seren Bundy-Davies 3:23.90 Q, SB 6 2 3 FRA 2015 World Estelle Perrossier, Marie Gayot, Agnès Raharolahy, Floria Gueï 3:24.86 Q, SB 7 2 2 UKR 2015 World Yuliya Olishevska, Olha Bibik, Olha Zemlyak, Olha Lyakhova 3:26.01 q, SB 8 1 3 CAN 2015 World Carline Muir, Aiyanna Stiverne, Sage Watson, Nicole Sassine 3:26.14 q, SB 9 2 7 ITA 2015 World Maria Benedicta Chigbolu, Elena Maria Bonfanti, Ayomide Folorunso, Chiara Bazzoni 3:27.07 SB 10 2 8 BAH 2015 World Lanece Clarke, Christine Amertil, Katrina Seymour, Shaunae Miller 3:28.46 NR Bahamian 11 1 7 ROU 2015 World Andreea Grecu, Anamaria Ioniță, Sanda Belgyan, Bianca Răzor 3:28.60 SB 12 1 6 AUS 2015 World Anneliese Rubie, Jessica Gulli, Lauren Wells, Morgan Mitchell 3:28.61 SB 13 2 6 JPN 2015 World Seika Aoyama, Kana Ichikawa, Asami Chiba, Sayaka Aoki 3:28.91 NR Japanese 14 2 5 IND 2015 World Jisna Mathew, Tintu Lukka, Debasree Majumdar, M. 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Poovamma 3:29.08 SB 15 1 9 POL 2015 World Małgorzata Hołub, Patrycja Wyciszkiewicz, Joanna Linkiewicz, Justyna Święty 3:32.83 16 1 5 CHN 2015 World Huang Guifen, Wang Huan, Li Xue, Cheng Chong 3:34.98 Final The final was held at 20:05Final results Rank Lane Nation Athletes Time Notes 6 JAM 2015 World Christine Day, Shericka Jackson, Stephenie Ann McPherson, Novlene Williams-Mills 3:19.13 WL 4 USA 2015 World Sanya Richards-Ross, Natasha Hastings, Allyson Felix, Francena McCorory 3:19.44 5 GBR 2015 World Christine Ohuruogu, Anyika Onuora, Eilidh Child, Seren Bundy-Davies 3:23.62 SB 4 8 RUS 2015 World Nadezhda Kotlyarova, Ksenia Zadorina, Kseniya Ryzhova, Kseniya Aksyonova 3:24.84 5 7 NGR 2015 World Regina George, Funke Oladoye, Tosin Adeloye, Patience Okon George 3:25.11 6 2 UKR 2015 World Olha Zemlyak, Nataliia Lupu, Nataliya Pyhyda, Olha Lyakhova 3:25.94 SB 7 9 FRA 2015 World Estelle Perrossier, Marie Gayot, Agnès Raharolahy, Floria Gueï 3:26.45 8 3 CAN 2015 World Carline Muir, Aiyanna Stiverne, Sage Watson, Audrey Jean-Baptiste 3:27.69 References 4 x 400 metres relay Category:Relays at the World Athletics Championships