2015 IAAF World Relays – Women's 4 × 800 metres relay

None Women's 4 × 800 metres relay 2015 IAAF World Relays Thomas Robinson Stadium 3 May (final) 32 8 Chanelle PriceMaggie VesseyMolly Beckwith-LudlowAlysia Johnson Montaño USA Syntia EllwardKatarzyna BroniatowskaAngelika CichockaSofia Ennaoui POL Abbey de la MotteKelly HetheringtonSelma KajanBrittany McGowan AUS 2014 2017 The women's 4 × 800 metres relay at the 2015 IAAF World Relays was held at the Thomas Robinson Stadium on 3 May. From the gun, the first runner to the break line was Mexico's Gabriela Medina, but as the athletes sorted themselves, American Chanelle Price found her way to the front followed closely by Cuba's Rose Mary Almanza. On the final straight, Almanza sprinted by giving Cuba several metres at the handoff. Cuba's Arletis Thaureaux's personal best was almost 9 seconds slower than America's Maggie Vessey, so it was fairly easy for Vessey to move into position to mark Thaureaux in the first 200 metres out front. Kenya's Sheila Jepkosgei Chesang sprinted the first 200 metres to make up the gap, following Vessey around Thaureaux and the rest of the field tightened up behind. At the beginning of her second lap, Vessey asserted the lead and opened up a sizable gap. Chesang paid for her exuberance and began to fall back through the field while Simoya Campbell put Jamaica at the head of the chase pack. As Vessey continued to stretch the lead, Campbell was displaced by Poland's Katarzyna Broniatowska, chased by Canada's Rachel François. By the end of her leg, Vessey had a 30-meter gap on the field, Broniatowska handed off in second and flopped to the track, Jamaica's Natoya Goule dodging the body after getting the baton. Chesang's last 200 metres were agony, handing off 14 seconds behind the same Vessey she had challenged earlier, Kenya well out of the running. Taking the baton from Kelly Hetherington about even with Canada, Australia's Selma Kajan rolled into second place around the turn. Molly Beckwith-Ludlow maintained the American lead while the end of the first lap saw the Australian running shoulder to shoulder with Goule and Poland's Angelika Cichocka with Canada's Elizabeth Whelan just a step behind, challenged by Cuba's Gilda Casanova. Goule eased ahead, with Cichocka the only one to go with her, while Kajan dropped back to battle Casanova and Whelan as a third pack. Ludlow handed off to Alysia Johnson Montaño some 40 metres ahead, while Cichocka sprinted past Goule on the final straight. Known as a front runner, Montaño ran a hard first lap and opened up a huge lead, the entire home straight. Poland's Sofia Ennaoui moved into a clear second place with a line up of Canada's Rachel Aubry, Australia's Brittany McGowan, Cuba's Sahily Diago and Jamaica's Samantha James lined up in that order to chase for the medals. It was McGowan who pushed the final back stretch into the wind and broke away from the group. At the end Montaño's lead had shrunk back to only about 70 metres, she celebrated waving the baton to the crowd as she finished. More than ten seconds later, Ennaoui finished another couple of seconds ahead of McGowan. Out of the first five teams, only Australia did not set their National Record with this race. The previous American and North American record was from this race the year earlier, so the winning American team set the Championship record and their continental record in the same step. Still this time is more than ten seconds slower than world record, set by a Soviet team in 1984 during the Soviet bloc boycott of the Olympics. It is the number 13 performance of all time, all but two of those performances ahead of it being set before the dissolution of the Soviet Union and those remaining two set by Russia and Romania in the European Relay Festival in Portsmouth, England, an earlier relay festival that was a predecessor to the World Relays concept in June 1993.http://www.alltime-athletics.com/w4x800ok.htm Women's 4x800m relay Records Prior to the competition, the records were as follows: World recordSoviet Union(Nadiya Olizarenko, Lyubov Gurina, Lyudmila Borisova, Irina Podyalovskaya)7:50.17URS Moscow, Soviet Union5 August 1984Championship recordUnited States(Chanelle Price, Geena Lara, Ajee' Wilson, Brenda Martinez)8:01.58BAH Nassau, Bahamas25 May 2014World LeadingUSA Villanova University(Kelsey Margey, Stephanie Schappert, Siofra Buttner, Angel Piccirillo)8:26.36USA Philadelphia, United States25 April 2015African RecordKenya(Janeth Jepkosgei, Agatha Jeruto Kimaswai, Sylvia Chematui Chesebe, Eunice Jepkoech Sum)8:04.28BAH Nassau, Bahamas25 May 2014Asian RecordChina (Liaoning Team)Liu Dong, Chen Yumei, Qu Yunxia, Liu Li8:16.2CHN Shanghai, China3 October 1991North, Central American and Caribbean recordUnited States(Chanelle Price, Geena Lara, Ajee' Wilson, Brenda Martinez)8:01.58BAH Nassau, Bahamas25 May 2014South American RecordBrazil (C.R. Flamengo)(Cristiane Barbosa, Cintia Fragoso, Lorena de Oliveira, Ana Paula Pereira)9:29.10BRA Rio de Janeiro, Brazil21 December 2000European RecordSoviet Union(Nadiya Olizarenko, Lyubov Gurina, Lyudmila Borisova, Irina Podyalovskaya)7:50.17URS Moscow, Soviet Union5 August 1984Oceanian recordAustralia(Brittany McGowan, Zoe Buckman, Selma Kajan, Melissa Duncan)8:13.26BAH Nassau, Bahamas25 May 2014 Schedule Date Time Round3 May 2015 19:53 Final All times are local times (UTC-4) Results Final The final was started at 19:56.Final Results Rank Lane Nation Athletes Time Notes 6 Chanelle Price, Maggie Vessey, Molly Beckwith-Ludlow, Alysia Johnson Montaño 8:00:62 CR, AR, WL 2 Syntia Ellward, Katarzyna Broniatowska, Angelika Cichocka, Sofia Ennaoui 8:11:36 NR 8 Abbey de la Motte, Kelly Hetherington, Selma Kajan, Brittany McGowan 8:13:97 SB 4 3 Rose Mary Almanza, Arletis Thaureaux, Gilda Casanova, Sahily Diago 8:15:84 NR 5 1 Kimarra McDonald, Simoya Campbell, Natoya Goule, Samantha James 8:16:04 NR 6 5 Karine Belleau-Béliveau, Rachel François, Elizabeth Whelan, Rachel Aubry 8:16.27 SB 7 4 Gabriela Medina, Alejandra Pozas, Paola Vázquez, Arantza Hernández 8:30.56 SB 8 7 Annet Mwanzi Lukhuyi, Sheila Jepkosgei Chesang, Sylvia Cherop, Eglay Nafuna Nalyanya 8:33.15 SB References 4 x 800 metres relay Category:4 × 800 metres relay Category:2015 in women's sport of athletics Category:2015 in women's international sport Category:Women's athletics competitions in the Bahamas