00:01the word wonderful has been used a lot the last few days well in fact throughout this whole
00:06championships so the final female action before the men come out it's time for the final of the
00:12women's 4x400 litre relay world leaders the USA setting qualifying here 321.66
00:23man they go faster or with the team they've got assembled on paper it looks likely
00:29this is the world championship final these four championships have been unpredictable
00:35there's the team from Germany
00:40they'll start on the outside in lane number nine
00:46Botswana
00:48in lane number eight for them
00:54Nigeria and inside Botswana to be the team from Nigeria
01:01yep worked on the moves
01:05and the defending champions
01:09now McPherson in their squad she was six of the 400 individual
01:14defending champions starting in lane number six and a big roar for the team from break britain
01:19northern ireland
01:22bronze medalist two years ago
01:26and then the strong team for the united states
01:32four women in the world have run under 50 seconds this year three of them are in their lineup
01:38the team from Poland they'll line up in lane number three and then completing the lineup
01:47the team from France
01:51so
01:55the penultimate event of the world championships
01:58they're always exciting women's four by four hundred meter relay and that's an overhead shot
02:05let's take a look how they made their way to the final
02:11potentially a team
02:16that could win another world title for the USA
02:19they've won this title seven times
02:22Alison Felix
02:23she'll be on the second leg
02:25the world leader this year over the 400 meter distance
02:30she's got a bronze in the 400
02:32gold in the four by 100 meter relay
02:34she now has 15 world championship medals
02:37she's surpassed Merlinotti
02:38she's surpassed Usain Bolt
02:41and the American team of Hayes, Felix, Wimbley and Francis
02:44is a very very strong one
02:46can anybody stop the Americans
02:50I'm not sure Catherine
02:52it really is a quality lineup
02:54321-66 that world lead
02:56then you're looking to the likes of Great Britain
02:59bronze medalists
03:00in the last two years
03:02and you know
03:03what psychological bonus to a team
03:06when you've got someone as decorated
03:09and experienced as Alison Felix
03:13well they're bringing in Felix
03:15they've also brought in Phyllis Francis
03:17for their last leg
03:18and she won the individual medal
03:20over the 400 meters
03:22like I say
03:22Felix 49-65
03:24Guineara Hayes will lead them off
03:2649-72
03:27and Phyllis Francis
03:2949-92
03:30you'll have to go with that American team
03:32don't you
03:33for second
03:33I think you also have to go
03:35for Jamaica
03:35and I think there'll be more of a battle on
03:37for third
03:38very strong Jamaican team
03:40well there is
03:41they've got the very experienced
03:43Noblin Williams Mills
03:44on their final leg
03:45made the 400 meter final here
03:47was in that world championship team
03:49that won two years ago
03:51as was Sharika Jackson
03:53who runs third leg for them
03:54within the 400 meters here Jackson
03:58so defending champions
04:00there may not be no
04:02McPherson in their team
04:03but with Gordon
04:05McLaughlin will be
04:06Jackson and Williams Mills
04:07they'll be in with a shout as well
04:08that's Guineara Hayes
04:10the world number two this year
04:12and there is the ever experienced
04:14Noblin Williams Mills
04:15five world championship medals
04:17she has
04:22come back from health problems
04:23battled breast cancer
04:25and he's still running on the world stage
04:28at a very high level
04:29the British team as well
04:30in lane number five
04:31Clark, Nielsen, Doyle and Diamond
04:33bronze a couple of years ago
04:35yeah and they brought in
04:36Ailey Doyle
04:37the team captain
04:38who has taken the place
04:39of Perry Sheikh Straton
04:40who ran in the Heeds
04:43yep
04:43400 meter hurdle
04:44finalist here
04:45Ailey Doyle
04:46at the back of Zoe Clark
04:48a semi-finalist
04:49over the 400 meters here
04:52did well though
04:52ran a personal best
04:5451.81 seconds
04:58so the final setup
05:00is being made
05:01of the blocks
05:01for this women's
05:024x400 meter final
05:05the athletes wait
05:08Emily Diamond
05:10she'll run the final leg
05:12for the British team
05:13Amantel Moncho
05:14a former world champion
05:17she'll be on the final leg
05:19for Botswana
05:26so the final
05:27at the women's
05:284x400 meter relay
05:31will it be an eighth gold
05:33in this event
05:33for the USA
05:34can the defending champions
05:36Jamaica
05:39win the title again
05:40here's your lineup
05:43as always throughout
05:44these championships
05:45from lanes 2 to 9
05:47are being used
05:48in the pre-event favourites
05:50the USA starting 4
05:51the defending champions
05:53in 6
05:53and a bronze medalist
05:552 years ago
05:56Great Britain
05:56Northern Ireland
05:57starting 5
06:00so we're ready
06:02to rock and roll
06:03Germany will start
06:05on the outside
06:05in lane number 9
06:06Svelmeier
06:08Muller
06:08Gonsha
06:11Bergenthaler
06:12she'll bring them home
06:14Botswana
06:17get brought home
06:18by Amantel Moncho
06:19the former world champion
06:20in 8
06:22Nigeria in 7
06:24Hastings George
06:25on the first leg
06:27Yinka Ajayi
06:28on the last
06:28there's the defending champions
06:31Gordon
06:31McLaughlin
06:32Wilby
06:32Jackson
06:33Williams
06:33Mills
06:36centre lane
06:37for Great Britain
06:38Northern Ireland
06:39they look good
06:40in qualifying
06:40Clark
06:41Nielsen
06:42Doyle
06:42and Diamond
06:43United States
06:45the United States
06:46Hayes
06:47Felix
06:48Wimbley
06:49and Francis
06:51Poland
06:52will start
06:52in lane number 3
06:53Justina Sviti
06:55will bring them home
06:56on the final leg
06:58and then in lane number 2
07:00the French team
07:01sixth in 2015
07:04the final
07:05of the 4x4
07:07100 metre relay
07:08for women
07:10France
07:11Poland
07:11USA
07:12Great Britain
07:13Northern Ireland
07:14Jamaica
07:14Nigeria
07:15Botswana
07:16and Germany
07:16they've had a wonderful
07:18championship
07:19to the USA
07:22can in this penultimate event
07:24they win gold again
07:26win
07:26and he won the place
07:48they were done
07:50he only has an inkling
07:55started expected in a four by four hundred meter final. Quineira Hayes of
07:59the USA in lane number four going out hard as expected as is George of Nigeria in
08:04lane number seven. So down the back straight Hollywood Poland trying to hold
08:10on to Quineira Hayes. Jamaica going well with Gordon in lane
08:15number six. So Jamaica, Nigeria, Hayes for the USA.
08:23They'll swing round into the home straight. It's the longest leg of a four
08:26by four hundred meter relay. They stay in lanes and hand it over and Chrisanne
08:32Gordon of Jamaica has had a wonderful leg as has Quineira Hayes of the USA. Let's
08:37see who hands over first. It's the United States of America. On to Alison Felix, the
08:45most medaled athlete ever in World Championship history. Felix down the
08:51back straight has been an injury to Jamaica. An injury to McLaughlin will be on the second
08:57leg for them but down the back straight it's a huge lead already for the
09:01Americans. Massive disappointment for the Jamaicans. That creates an opportunity for
09:07others. Alison Felix leads. Watch the Nigerians. They're in second place. Great Britain coming
09:17through in third and the Botswanans and the Poles trying to come wide on the outside. Felix is out in
09:23a class of their own here. Great running by the British Quartet and Poland in third. USA,
09:31Great Britain, Poland. That's the top three.
09:35Shakima Wimbley for the USA, Alison Felix a fine run of course but look at the battle for the other
09:41medals. Ailey Doyle, Lavi and Nielsen, their team mate, ran a storming second leg. USA, Great Britain, Poland, Gworska on
09:55the third leg for them. Nigeria are trying to get back into this one in fourth place. The American team
10:01are gone. They're leading this by some 60 metres for Ailey Doyle of Great Britain, Northern Ireland,
10:07Kitsch. A little bit of a gap here between herself and the Polish athletes. So USA are going to hand
10:15over with a 50 metre lead. USA with Phyllis Francis now on the final leg. Ailey Doyle hands over to
10:23Emily Diamond. Poland in third. The crowd war because of the position of the British athletes. Phyllis Francis the individual
10:33gold medal winner in the 400 metres barring injury.
10:37USA are going to take gold in this one. The USA are going to take gold in this one. Emily
10:40Diamond is storming leg down the back straight for the British team. The Polish athlete here is struggling.
10:47Sviti, she's potentially going to be swallowed up here. Botswana, a man to Moncho. Trying to get back in the
10:57mix but the USA have gone. Phyllis Francis is going to bring them home for a gold medal. Great Britain,
11:04Northern Ireland is a proud war.
11:06Are they going to hold on for silver? Are they going to hold on for silver? Oh, what a finish
11:10here from Sviti. USA take gold. Great Britain, Northern Ireland takes silver. And Poland pick up the bronze. Well, there
11:21was some super fast running by the French team and the Nigerian team. 3.19.03. A two second world
11:30leading time by the Americans.
11:32Well, I mentioned the fourth athletes that have gone under 50 seconds in the individual 400 metres this year. Three
11:40of them were in that US team. Great running by them. Super running by the British team.
11:46And Poland, well, they did hang on and pick up the bronze. They were finishing fast. Well, you just can't
11:51beat that sort of quality. And the Americans had it in depth, didn't they? They toured it on. They toured
11:57it on.
11:57Felix, well, when she strode down that back straight on the second leg, it was all over. It really was.
12:04Well, let me read you out the splits that I've got for the US team. 50.5 for Hayes from
12:09a standing start. Then Felix, 48.8. What an athlete she is. Then Wembley, 49.6. Very good. And Felix
12:19Francis brought them home. 50.1 unpressed.
12:23Well, a great performance from the American team. Felix, I think, was the real key to that victory, if there
12:28ever was one.
12:29Because she made it, without any question, out of context for everybody else. Great run by the Great Britain team.
12:35Tragedy, though, for the Jamaican team.
12:37Their second leg, you know, it was almost as if they were going to move in and come up and
12:43challenge the Americans. And it was all over.
12:46Well, it's almost as if the Jamaicans are jinxed at this championship. They have been so unlucky and so uncharacteristically
12:55out of sorts.
12:56As opposed to the United States, who now have 10 golds, 10 silver medals and 9 bronze medals. Great performance
13:06from the British quartet.
13:08I think when the Jamaicans went out, Catherine, that gave them a massive opportunity.
13:13And they took advantage of it and gave themselves a brilliant opportunity to hang on to silver.
13:19Well, they did. They're always going to be in contention.
13:22You know, a medalist a couple of years ago in the center of the shot there,
13:25Lavia Nilsson ran an absolutely storming second leg, just like she did in the qualifying, Peter.
13:31I don't know what her split was for the British athlete.
13:33No, I haven't got that yet. But I mean, she ran 50.5 or so in the qualifying.
13:38And this was surely at least as good. Tremendous performance.
13:41And on all marks to Ailey Doyle, too, because she hasn't been in top form this year.
13:44But they brought her in for this race. Slightly questionable to replace Chex Drayton.
13:49But she was very strong, wasn't it, when it mattered?
13:53Confirmation then. USA take gold again. 3.19.02.
13:57Great Britain, Northern Ireland pick up a medal with silver and Poland pick up the bronze.
14:06Six seconds. That's just an incredible winning margin. Totally dominant.
14:16We look at Phyllis Francis here on the final leg.
14:19It's a wonderful position to be in a 4x400 metre relay. I promise you, when your teammates have done everything
14:26for you and you just have to coast round.
14:28But look at the battle here. Swieti of Poland went wide into the second lane. She had an absolute blinding
14:34leg as well, the Polish athlete.
14:35But such was the advantage that the British team had, she couldn't close back on Emily Diamond.
14:40Well, Swieti is one of those great athletes on relays particularly. We've seen it time after time that she runs
14:46really well on the last leg for them.
14:48They brought her in for that. Lovely, smooth action here. The Americans in a different class.
14:53And for Alison Felix, she's got 16 World Championship medals now. She was desperately disappointed with her bronze in the
15:01individual 400 metres.
15:03The relay split that Peter's just told us. Well, you know the story. If she could have replicated that in
15:08the individual, then it would be a different story.
15:10But some athletes are totally different, aren't they, in relays, than what they are in the individual events.
15:15I think really, as I said before, Felix's second leg for me was a real highlight.
15:21You know, because she literally just tore down the back straight. I've never seen her do anything like that in
15:25the individual.
15:26And in the end, she came back with that wonderful performance.
15:29Well, anything sub 49 seconds in terms of obviously individual running is absolutely superb.
15:35But even in relay running, Peter, a 48 point split is something that not many have done in recent years.
15:42No, you have to allow a little bit for a running start, don't you?
15:44So you won't quite replicate that in an individual race.
15:48But that's certainly worth, well, in the mid 49s anyway.
15:53Well, it was a wonderful race by the Americans. Outstanding championships for them.
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