00:00Gunter, they're on the outside, then to Poland.
00:03Twice silver medalists in this event.
00:06Kenneth Canty will bring them home.
00:10Saw her run well earlier on.
00:12Great Britain.
00:15Lucas Cameron had an excellent third leg for them this morning.
00:20Kamaya Bennett goes anchor.
00:24The Jamaicans watch for Jabari Matteson.
00:28He goes lead leg and ran 43.6 this morning.
00:33They were just off the podium two years ago.
00:36Desperate for a medal.
00:39This is a fabulous team from the United States.
00:43Josh Shelton on lead leg.
00:46Are they going to have to break their own world record to win this title?
00:51A world-leading 318.26 this morning.
00:55Driven hard and driven all the way to the line by the Australians.
01:01The defending champions.
01:03319.59 this morning.
01:08Czechia.
01:09Third in the opening heat.
01:11Jakub Marek is a fabulous 400-meter runner.
01:14And so too, Bokova.
01:16Watch for them to close the gap at the end if they are trailing.
01:22Colombia.
01:23A national record for them in qualification.
01:27Isabel Hurtado.
01:28Very, very experienced athlete for them.
01:34Sanchez holding the flag and flags being waved in the crowd as well.
01:39And then the Spanish.
01:41Crespo on the third leg.
01:43Navarro goes second.
01:45Rojo will lead them out.
01:51317.69 is the world record.
01:54Bruce, you know this Australian team inside out and back to front.
01:57They are the defending champions.
01:59It's a tall, tall order.
02:01But they've got the class to really push the Americans.
02:05This could be the quickest we've ever seen, couldn't it?
02:07It's got the potential, Rob, to be something very special, I think, don't you?
02:11I really do.
02:12And it'll be the perfect end to a great night.
02:15We've seen gold for Uganda in the women's 5,000.
02:19Gold for Kenya in the men's 5,000.
02:21And gold for Brazil, their first ever at the world under 20 in the men's shot put.
02:25The mixed 4x4 final.
02:27Spain, Colombia, Czechia, Australia, USA, Jamaica, Great Britain, Poland, South Africa.
02:33The defending champions against the world record holders and seven other superb teams.
02:38The curtain comes down on a fabulous first day of five here in Oregon, 26.
02:45This could be very, very quick indeed.
02:51Well, what a treat for us all.
02:53And what a roar for these teams.
02:57Now, if Matteson goes out anywhere near as quickly as he did this morning,
03:04then the Jamaicans are really going to put the hammer down.
03:09He's being closed at the moment.
03:13Good work by the American, Josh Shelton.
03:17Shelton coming through onto Matteson's shoulder.
03:21The Australians with a little bit of ground to make up.
03:24Dylan Rumming needs to come good here.
03:27The South Africans driving hard on the outside.
03:31Now the American beginning to close the gap.
03:35Jamaica from the United States.
03:39Poland going well.
03:40And Australia coming through on the inside,
03:44but being put under a little bit of pressure by the quartet from Czechia.
03:48So USA leader, Rob.
03:50They got the best of the first.
03:52Xavier Watts has gone very well for Australia.
03:55She's pushed up inside of Jamaica.
03:57So the three big guns and Great Britain back a bit.
04:01So Czech here in third place.
04:02So it's USA, Jamaica, Australia.
04:05Can they hold that?
04:07But the USA, we're on world record watch.
04:10And they start to extend the lead here.
04:13This is really good running.
04:16Excellent strength coming up to the halfway stage.
04:20Watts has to check her stride to come wide over the tiring Herbert.
04:25A big lead for the Americans.
04:281.37.8 at halfway.
04:32Australia second.
04:33Jamaica third.
04:34If the Australians are going to close, they have to do it now.
04:37And Hamlin's got to be careful though here, Rob.
04:39He can't go out.
04:40He can't get too excited here.
04:42His job, the Australian's job,
04:44is to try and hold the Jamaican and the pole at the moment.
04:47Because it's USA by such a big margin.
04:49And the battle's on now for second, third, fourth and fifth.
04:53The real battle there between Jamaica and Australia.
04:55But the USA lead by 15 to 20 metres with 500 to go.
05:01The Americans will be desperate for this win.
05:04Hamlin's coming under pressure from Pitta.
05:06Adamczyk is running well for Poland and South Africa trying to get in the mix.
05:11Is it going to be a battle for silver and bronze?
05:14Harris on the anchor leg for the Americans.
05:17Could the world record go here at Hayward Field?
05:20It's the last gold on a brilliant opening day.
05:24And the Jamaicans are really taking it to the Australian.
05:27Who had her stride checked there and she'll need to come wide on the outside.
05:32South Africa trying to get in the shaker.
05:35They drive on.
05:36It's a lovely stride from McAuliffe.
05:39Coming up onto the shoulder of Fowler.
05:41Don't rule out the team from Czechia either.
05:45There's the battle for silver and bronze.
05:46The Americans are away and clear.
05:49And Czechia are not out of the battle for the podium here either.
05:53Watch the clock.
05:543.17.69 is the world record.
05:58She's coming.
05:59She's closing.
06:00This is quick.
06:01It's really quick.
06:02Are we finishing with a world record?
06:05Oh yes we are.
06:06What an opening day.
06:08And what a time to produce that incredible performance.
06:13That's sensational from the United States.
06:17Boom.
06:19Czechia come through on the line with a national record.
06:22Australia with an area record for bronze.
06:25And Jamaica with a national record for fourth.
06:28But all eyes were on the Americans there.
06:31That was sensational.
06:35They've absolutely decimated their previous best time.
06:403.15.31.
06:43That was magnificent.
06:45And they were never threatened.
06:46But what a battle for silver and bronze.
06:50Brilliant from Czechia.
06:52And an area record for the Australians.
06:54They need to hold their heads up high.
06:56You can't do any better than that.
06:58But the Americans were so dominant from start to finish.
07:03A brilliant end to a brilliant opening day.
07:06What a performance.
07:07Incredible.
07:08The amount of time they've taken off that record.
07:10So it's the world record.
07:12Czechia has run the third fastest time ever.
07:14And Australia the fourth fastest time ever.
07:16It is a final for the ages.
07:19It was USA by a margin.
07:22I've got to give Charlem a call of a big, big pat on the back here.
07:26The Australian, Rob.
07:27She's been out of sorts all season.
07:30She's been injured.
07:31It's been a big, big effort to get her back.
07:33She ran the ankle leg for Australia.
07:34She was a medallist in this event two years ago.
07:36She hasn't been at her top.
07:38But she was at her top tonight.
07:39Good on Czechia.
07:41Australia get that national record.
07:43But the USA have done something quite remarkable here tonight.
07:48They didn't just beat that record.
07:50They obliterated it.
07:52They put a marker up for the next probably five years for those to chase.
07:56They have established one of those great records that you've got to say,
08:00I was there.
08:01I was lucky enough to have been there.
08:05Well, their previous mark was when they took gold in Cali in 22 with 3.17.69.
08:12And they've just run 3.15.31.
08:16Bruce McIverney has seen much more athletics than me.
08:20It might take a long, long time before that record is beaten.
08:24I think so.
08:25And it was a great battle throughout the race for second, third and fourth.
08:29Wasn't it, Rosie?
08:30I mean, it kept changing.
08:32And look, Charlotte gets the baton here.
08:35And I thought at this point from Freddie Hamlin, I thought at this point that Australia was probably unlikely to
08:40hang on for a medal.
08:43Third it was, Czechia finishing so strongly and Jamaica in fourth placing.
08:47It was just stirring to watch, wasn't it?
08:49Yeah, it was brilliant all the way down.
08:52Something exciting wherever you looked in that race.
08:56It isn't often that we get something of that quality the whole way down the field.
09:01What a treat.
09:02And what a way to set us up for the rest of the world under 20s that we've still got
09:06to come.
09:07Four more days.
09:08And if this is anything to go by, it's going to be spectacular.
09:12Why, you knew.
09:13I watched the clock.
09:14When she came into the home straight, I looked at the clock and I thought, my gosh, this isn't just
09:20on.
09:20This is going to be smashed quite often, Bruce.
09:24When a woman...
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