2006 World Junior Championships
Day 6 - 8/20 - SUNDAY
MEN'S 4x400 RELAY
FINALS

Sunday, August 20th, 2006
At Beijing, China

 

2006 World Junior Championships
Day 6 - 8/20 - SUNDAY
MEN'S 4X400 RELAY
FINALS

Sunday August 20th, 2006
At Beijing, China
Race Summary Mike Kennedy
Photos Doug Speck

Quentin Summers led off at 46.1

during the first turn of leg 2 Justin Oliver started to run away from the field
during his 45.6 leg

Bryshon Nellum maintained the US lead during a 46.16 auto-timed leg

400 Meter Hurdle Gold Medalist stepped down to the flat as Nicole Leach
had done in the Girls event to blaze 45.72 for his leg to anchor the surprisingly
comfortable win at 3:03.76

  
Summers - Oliver

  
Nellum - Carter

Mike Byrnes needs CPR as his heart fails after all the gold medals
in the relays - nope, he's really trying to do the "fish" and knocked
Paul Limmer into the computers as he celebrated

Race Summary:   Russia took the lead after the first lap but Quenton Summers had kept the U.S. close with an opening leg of 46.1. Justin Oliver, who was second in the 400, then cruised a 45.6 to give the U.S. a lead it never lost. Bryshon Nellum, with a 46.16 and Chris Carter, the gold medalist in the 400 hurdles, closed things out with a 45.72 to cloak a world junior-leading time of 3:03.76. Russia was second in 3:05.13 and Great Britain edged Kenya at the end, 3:05.49 to 3:05.54.

Official Results - 4x400 Metres Relay - Men - Final
Sunday, August 20, 2006 - 20:50

Pos Lane Team Country Mark
1 5 United States Junior USA 3:03.76 (WJL)
(Summers Quentin, Oliver Justin, Nellum Bryshon, Carter Chris)
2 6 Russia Junior RUS 3:05.13 (NJ)
(Dyldin Maksim, Buryak Dmitriy, Sakaev Vyacheslav, Kokorin Anton)
3 8 Great Britain & N.I.Junior GBR 3:05.49 (SB)
(Clarke Chris, Baker Grant, Robertson Kris, Rooney Martyn)
4 3 Kenya Junior KEN 3:05.54 (NJ)
(Meli Silvester Kirwa, Kirwa Julius, Kivuna Jackson Mumbwa, Rudisha David Lekuta)
5 1 Belgium Junior BEL 3:07.03
(Borlee Jonathan, Panneel Jens, Ghislain Arnaud, Borlee Kevin)
6 2 Jamaica Junior JAM 3:08.28
(Fothergill Allodin, Steele Edino, McKenzie Ramone, Edwards Tarik)
7 4 Poland Junior POL 3:09.19
(Klaczanski Marcin, Tylkowski Krzysztof, Adamcewicz Piotr, Sobinski Grzegorz)
8 7 Japan Junior JPN 3:16.61
(Abiko Mitsuhiro, Ishitsuka Yusuke, Yamamoto Tetsuji, Kanemaru Yuzo)