4 × 800 metres relay
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4 × 800 metres relay
4 × 800 metres relay
The 4 × 800 meters relay is an athletics track event in which teams consist of four runners who each complete 800 meters or 2 laps on a standard 400 meter track.
The IAAF ratifies world records in the event and 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, Nadezhda Olizarenko, Lyubov Gurina, Lyudmila Borisova and Irina Podyalovskaya on August 15, 1984, in Moscow.[1]
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Citation Linkwww.iaaf.orghttp://www.iaaf.org/statistics/records/inout=o/discType=5/disc=4X8/detail.html
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Citation Linkwww.iaaf.orghttp://www.iaaf.org/statistics/records/inout=o/discType=5/disc=4X8/detail.html
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