4 × 800 metres relay

The 4 × 800 meters relay is an athletics track event in which teams comprise four runners who each complete 800 meters or 2 laps on a standard 400 meter track.

While not a World Championship or Olympic event, the IAAF does ratify world records in the event. 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, Nadezhda Olizarenko, Lyubov Gurina, Lyudmila Borisova and Irina Podyalovskaya on August 15, 1984 in Moscow.^[1]

External links

IAAF list of 4x800-metres-relay records in XML

References

↑ http://www.iaaf.org/statistics/records/inout=o/discType=5/disc=4X8/detail.html

Athletics events

Track

Sprints	50 m 55 m 60 m 100 m 200 m 400 m

Hurdles	50 m 55 m 60 m 80 m 100 m 110 m 300 m 400 m

Middle-distance	800 m 1500 m One mile 2000 m steeplechase 3000 m 3000 m steeplechase Two miles

Long-distance	5000 m 10,000 m One hour run

Relays	4 × 100 m 4 × 200 m 4 × 400 m 4 × 800 m 4 × 1500 m Distance medley relay Sprint medley relay Swedish relay

Field

Throws	Discus Hammer Javelin Shot put Weight throw Softball throw

Jumps	High jump (standing) Long jump (standing) Triple jump (standing) Pole vault

Combined

Road

Running	5 km 10 km 15 km 10 mi Half marathon 25 km 30 km Marathon Ekiden

Walking	10 km 20 km 50 km 50 mi 100 km

Current Olympic events shown in italics

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