2006 World Junior
Championships
Day 6 - 8/20 - SUNDAY
MEN'S 4X100 RELAY
FINALS
Sunday August
20th, 2006
At Beijing, China
Race Summary Mike Kennedy
Photos Doug Speck
Evander Wells runs away from Jamaica on the first leg
Good first hand-off by the US in the middle of the track
Very close in the middle of the track between white-topped US and yellow
Jamaicans
Hand-off #2 had Jamaica and US very, very close - Jamaica ran gun Remaldo
Rose
on leg #2 with US Gordon McKenzie
Willie Perry rolls into anchor for the US
Brandon Meyers of the US holds his own down homestretch with Yohan Blake
of
Jamaica and 100m winner Harry Aikines- Aryeetey of Great Britain
Race Summary: The
U.S. running a team of Evander Wells, Gordon McKenzie, Willie Perry and Brandon
Meyers, got the lead out of the blocks
with Wells.
McKenzie and Perry continued to lead but just after the final exchange Yohan
Blake of Jamaica sped past Myers to claim the gold in a world-leading 39.05
The U.S. was second in 39.21, when Myers was able to hold off 100-meter champion
Harry Aikines-Aryeetey of Great Britain, 39.21 to 39.24.
Official Results - 4x100 Metres Relay - Men - Final
Sunday, August 20, 2006 - 19:55
Pos Lane Team Country Mark
1 5 Jamaica Junior JAM 39.05 (WJL)
(Barnes Winston, Rose Remaldo, Jervis Cawayne , Blake Yohan)
2 6 United States Junior USA 39.21 (SB)
(Wells Evander, McKenzie Gordon, Perry Willie, Myers Brandon)
3 3 Great Britain & N.I.Junior GBR 39.24 (SB)
(Pierre Rion, Nelson Alexander, Bennett-Jackson Wade, Aikines-Aryeetey Harry)
4 1 Canada Junior CAN 39.78
(Warner Justyn, Smith Seyi, Dargie Andrew, Barnett Brian)
5 2 Poland Junior POL 39.98
(Kleina Karol, Roszko Jacek, Lewandowicz Jakub, Pluta Mateusz)
6 4 Russia Junior RUS 40.03 (PB)
(Idrisov Mikhail, Abdulkaderov Ramis, Shevtsov Igor, Tkachenko Gleb)
8 Nigeria Junior NGR DNF
(Egwero Ogho-oghene, Metu Obinna, Odelusi Ayokunle, Akinlawon Ahmed)
7 Germany Junior GER DNF
(Petzold Georg, Blum Christian, Müller Nils, Reus Julian)
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