U.S. men break U20 WR in 4x100m at worlds
The U.S. contingent of Blake Hamilton, Dillon Mitchell, Kyler Brown, and Tate Taylor triumphed in the men's 4x100m relay final at the World Athletics U20 Championships, setting an U20 world record at 38.16 seconds.
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And now to our second final on the track.
4x1 for the men.
We've just seen the women.
So Germany from that outside lane.
Karim Uluba.
Schroster to bring them home.
Lennard Koster.
They're outsiders here.
Then the Swiss.
Keaton Zahner.
Muntaner, we saw him in the 200 final last night.
Lennart Roggow.
Will try to get them off to the fastest start possible, obviously.
Trinidad and Tobago.
Trinidad and Tobago have been pretty prominent.
Abraham Osio.
As we go through to Begum, who brings them home.
Here's Trinidad and Tobago.
Calvin Emptage.
Woods has been excellent.
Stewart, we know.
Richard Seip.
Seip, as well.
This is a good team.
Joseph Brown.
Not the favorites, but they're a good, strong team.
They won their heat, but it was the fifth fastest time.
16.44.
So ground to be made up.
Great Britain with such a history.
Oda Jordan comes in here.
Aminio's last leg was sensational in the heat.
It was 9.12.
It was the fastest of everybody in the heat.
And here's the American team.
Have a look at this.
So Hamilton comes in, Brown comes in, and Taylor comes in.
Three changes.
So you've got the first and second from the 200, and the first and fourth from the 100 coming in.
I reckon it's a world record time.
I reckon the South African world record, if they get the baton around, is in huge danger.
Gary Card comes in for Jamaica.
They've already had a great success a moment ago.
He runs the back straight.
So Japan, Ide, of course.
Kamakura to bring them home.
Shinozaki to take them off.
Ide Tsubura.
This American team is just stacked.
The world record is fifth, 38.51, set three years ago, or rather in 2021.
Odiora to get Belgium away.
Belgium's just got a medal in the women's 4x1.
They are so proficient.
And South Africa, who hold the world record with that fabulous team from the World Junior Championships in Kenya.
And Ferreira, the great Ferreira, who ran 9.13 on the final leg and was third behind Taylor and Card in that final, brings them home.
So the fastest time ever is South Africa at 38.51.
The second fastest time ever is Texas High School All-Stars, and that was this year.
And there are a couple of Texans out there right now, Taylor and Hamilton.
Huge anticipation surrounding this team.
But you've still got to get the baton around.
It's not easy at this speed and pressure.
Fabulous teams, but there is one that sticks out right in the middle.
Set.
Let's see how Hamilton runs the first bend.
So Germany and Switzerland, Trinidad and Tobago, Great Britain, the USA fly up.
They get away from Jamaica.
The change to the Americans is very, very good in the back straight.
So Germany and Switzerland, Great Britain, and then Trinidad and Tobago, but the Americans are clearly in front.
Baton change is good.
They're looking like they're big winners here.
Tate Taylor about to get the baton.
It's the USA leading into the straight from Great Britain and Jamaica.
He's got it here, Taylor.
38.51's the world record.
He's gonna get a third gold medal.
He's something very special.
Great Britain in second place.
Yes, oh, 38.16.
They've turned the world record inside out.
36 new world youth champions.
That was fun, Rob and Rosie.
That was fun.
Their baton changes were brilliant.
Their lineup on paper was brilliant, and they delivered.
As soon as Taylor had the baton in his hand, it was never in doubt.
A superb, faultless, flawless performance by the Americans.
Aminio's anchored Great Britain to a wonderful silver.
Great performance by him in the heats and the final.
And the Jamaicans on the podium once more.
It's gold and bronze for them across the men's and the women's.
But Tate Taylor makes it a one-two relay hat trick, just as Noah Lyles did in Budapest a few years ago at the World Senior Championship.
That world record was absolutely on, and they nailed it.
It was faultless, Rosie.
It absolutely was.
I mean, these guys, they brought three in from the heat.
I don't know how much practice they do together, but baton running's such a big part of high school and college sport, isn't it?
It is.
I think if you are in the track and field circles as you're growing up in America, this is something that you'll have been practicing for years.
Of course, they'd have had to go and practice it as a quartet.
They'd have been doing that yesterday.
They'd have been doing it today.
But that was so, so good.
They are so well-drilled.
I love watching the American relay teams for that reason.
And we knew if they were gonna get the baton round in one piece, we knew it was gonna be lightning, lightning quick.
Card, I thought, ran pretty well.
Perhaps the best we've seen from him in the championships.
He didn't quite have the 200 that he wanted, but this was just superb.
Great changeover, and Taylor was unleashed, wasn't he?
He was.
He was shot like a cannon.
But I tell you what, Aminio was in a similar vein.
The splits will be so interesting.
He's special, Taylor.
We know that.
He really is the next big thing.
Well, he is a big thing now.
He comes from the big state of Texas.
There's, so much about Lyles about him, I reckon.
How about this?
I had to read this twice.
Aminio, 9.17 anchor leg, albeit taking the baton on the move.
Tate Taylor, 8.75.
Do you know, it, it takes you back I'm old enough.
1964, Bob Hayes in Tokyo ran this unbelievable final leg with the times.
You couldn't believe it.
That is something similar.
That is crazy, Rob.
That is absolutely crazy.
Well, it's a team that have put on almost the perfect performance, and that's a very difficult thing in sport to do.
