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4x100-meter Relay - Women
Gold: USA
Silver: Jamaica
Bronze: Bahamas
No national record for the USA (it will be impossible this year to assemble a team like the Chryste Gaines, Marion Jones, Inger Miller and Gail Devers quartet in 1997). The USA had a wonderful chance in Berlin two years ago, but that really awful accident between Alexander Anderson and Muna Lee on the second exchange put an end to that dream in the semi-finals.
Jamaica also will surely not go anywhere near the 41.73 national record ran by the crack 2004 Olympic Games team of Tayna Lawrence, Sherone Simpson, Aleen Bailey and Veronica Campbell. Of course, with safe handoffs in 2008, Jamaica would surely have smashed the national record, and maybe, just maybe, even the world record. Thanks to an incomplete baton exchange between Sherone and Kerron, it was not to be.
The Bahamas will not go anywhere near their 41.92 seconds national record, which the famed Golden Girls (Sevatheda Fynes, Chandra Sturrup, Pauline Davis and Debbie Ferguson) ran at the 1999 IAAF World Championships in Seville. Although Sheniqua Ferguson was the lead-off on their silver medal team in 2009 in Berlin, there is no Chandra Sturrup this year. Therefore the only veteran on the team is anchor Debbie Ferguson. However, with talented youngsters like Cache Armbrister and Anthonique Strachan, they definitely will be a force to seriously consider.
4x100-meter Relay - Men
Gold: Jamaica
Silver: USA
Bronze: Trinidad & Tobago
No world record for the Jamaican men, but they will go below 37.50 seconds, maybe even below 37.40 seconds. If the 2009 team (Steve Mullings, Michael Frater, Usain Bolt and Asafa Powell) did not manage to go below the 37.10 set by the 2008 team, then it’s not going to happen this year.
Finally, the USA men will be behind Jamaica at the finish line, something which has not happened in a global finals since 1952 (and even then, it was in the 4x400-meter relay).
With safe baton passes, Trinidad will get the bronze simply because they are still the third fastest sprint relay team in the world at this time.
Gold: USA
Silver: Jamaica
Bronze: Bahamas
No national record for the USA (it will be impossible this year to assemble a team like the Chryste Gaines, Marion Jones, Inger Miller and Gail Devers quartet in 1997). The USA had a wonderful chance in Berlin two years ago, but that really awful accident between Alexander Anderson and Muna Lee on the second exchange put an end to that dream in the semi-finals.
Jamaica also will surely not go anywhere near the 41.73 national record ran by the crack 2004 Olympic Games team of Tayna Lawrence, Sherone Simpson, Aleen Bailey and Veronica Campbell. Of course, with safe handoffs in 2008, Jamaica would surely have smashed the national record, and maybe, just maybe, even the world record. Thanks to an incomplete baton exchange between Sherone and Kerron, it was not to be.
The Bahamas will not go anywhere near their 41.92 seconds national record, which the famed Golden Girls (Sevatheda Fynes, Chandra Sturrup, Pauline Davis and Debbie Ferguson) ran at the 1999 IAAF World Championships in Seville. Although Sheniqua Ferguson was the lead-off on their silver medal team in 2009 in Berlin, there is no Chandra Sturrup this year. Therefore the only veteran on the team is anchor Debbie Ferguson. However, with talented youngsters like Cache Armbrister and Anthonique Strachan, they definitely will be a force to seriously consider.
4x100-meter Relay - Men
Gold: Jamaica
Silver: USA
Bronze: Trinidad & Tobago
No world record for the Jamaican men, but they will go below 37.50 seconds, maybe even below 37.40 seconds. If the 2009 team (Steve Mullings, Michael Frater, Usain Bolt and Asafa Powell) did not manage to go below the 37.10 set by the 2008 team, then it’s not going to happen this year.
Finally, the USA men will be behind Jamaica at the finish line, something which has not happened in a global finals since 1952 (and even then, it was in the 4x400-meter relay).
With safe baton passes, Trinidad will get the bronze simply because they are still the third fastest sprint relay team in the world at this time.
. Not this 2011 Jamaica women’s 4x100-meter relay team. But you need to provide reasons why you believe that this particular talented group of Jamaican divas will do what we have never done before, that is, beat the USA women to the finish line with them racing in behind us.
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