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4 × 800 metres relay
Track and field relay event From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The' 4 × 800 metres relay' is an athletics track event in which teams consist of four runners who each complete 800 metres or 2 laps on a standard 400 metre track.
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The IAAF ratifies world records in the event, and it became a world championship event in 2014 as part of the IAAF World Relays.
The men's world record is 7:02.43 by a Kenyan team of Joseph Mutua, William Yiampoy, Ismael Kombich and Wilfred Bungei, set August 25, 2006, at the Memorial Van Damme meet in Brussels, Belgium. The women's world record is 7:50.17, set by a team representing the Soviet Union, Nadiya Olizarenko, Lyubov Gurina, Lyudmila Borisova and Irina Podyalovskaya on August 15, 1984, in Moscow.[1]
The imperial distance analogue to the event is the 4 × 880 yards relay, also known as the two-mile relay, contested at a total of 3,520 yards (3,218.688 m) which is slightly longer than the 3200 m metric distance. It was contested at the AIAW Indoor Track and Field Championships and other American and British meets until the switch to metric in the 1980s.[2]
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All-time top 15
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- Updated September 2021.[3]
Women
- Updated September 2021.[4]
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