2006 World Junior
Championships
Day 6 - 8/20 - SUNDAY
WOMEN'S 4X400 RELAY
FINALS
Sunday August
20th, 2006
At Beijing, China
Summary by Mike Kennedy
Photos by Doug Speck
Jessica Beard led off for the US - 3 turn exchange tough to tell places at
hand-off - Beard was 52.6
Brandi Cross battled ahead of Nigeria during her 52.3 leg #2
Sa'de Williams
was 52.8 and was away of the pack
Nicole Leach stepped off the hurdles and on to the flat and maintained the
lead
during a 50.9 smoker!!
Beard - Cross
Williams - Leach
Race Summary: Jessica Beard led things off for the U.S. out of lane three
with a 53.0 split that put the U.S. in second place just behind Nigeria,
who
got
an outstanding opening leg of 52.76 from Folashade Abugan. Brandi Cross
then took over and gave the U.S. a solid eight meter lead with her
52.3 split, Sa’de Williams kept the margin about the same with
a 52.79 split, although it was now Jamaica and not Nigeria that was
doing the chasing. Nicole Leach, who was second in the 400 hurdles,
anchored in 50.96 as the U.S. won in a comfortable with a world junior
leading time of 3:29.01, Nigeria, which overtook Jamaica in the final
straight, was second in 3:30.84 and Jamaica was third in 3:31.62.
Official Results - 4x400 Metres Relay - Women - Final
Sunday, August 20, 2006 - 20:20
Pos Lane Team Country Mark
1 3 United States Junior USA 3:29.01 (WJL)
(Beard Jessica, Cross Brandi, Williams Sa'de, Leach Nicole)
2 4 Nigeria Junior NGR 3:30.84 (AJ)
(Abugan Folashade, Odumosu Ajoke, Eze Joy, Adesanya Sekinat)
3 5 Jamaica Junior JAM 3:31.62 (SB)
(McDermott Latoya, Pinnock Sherene, Sutherland Sonita, Spencer Kaliese)
4 6 PR of China Junior CHN 3:32.59 (AJ)
(Chen Yumei, Wang Hui, Wen Xiuyun, Li Xueji)
5 1 Russia Junior RUS 3:33.21 (SB)
(Sozontova Nadezhda, Ott Anastasiya, Fominykh Polina, Zadorina Kseniya)
6 7 Germany Junior GER 3:36.49 (SB)
(Meyer Desirée, Nwachukwu Sorina, Walter Carolin, Lindenberg Janin)
7 2 Ukraine Junior UKR 3:36.97 (SB)
(Plotitsyna Hanna, Shevchenko Anzhelika, Lupu Nataliya, Myhaylychenko Olha)
8 8 Poland Junior POL 3:47.13
(Szuba Katarzyna, Sowinska Agnieszka, Madejewska Edyta, Polak Tina)
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