Lausanne w400

[croflash]

1 NAEF Martina 1980 SUI
2 MONTSHO Amantle 1983 BOT
3 KAPACHINSKAYA Anastasiya 1979 RUS
4 WILLIAMS Shericka 1985 JAM
5 GUSHCHINA Yuliya 1983 RUS
6 FIROVA Tatyana 1982 RUS
7 WHYTE Rosemarie n/c JAM
8 BARNES Miriam n/c USA

Sanya Richards is still being advertised on the main page of the meet, but is not on the start list anymore. Nicola Sanders, Novlene Williams and Mary Wineberg in the B race before the official start :shock:

[Non Potest]

Re: Lausanne w400

1 NAEF Martina 1980 SUI
2 MONTSHO Amantle 1983 BOT
3 KAPACHINSKAYA Anastasiya 1979 RUS
4 WILLIAMS Shericka 1985 JAM
5 GUSHCHINA Yuliya 1983 RUS
6 FIROVA Tatyana 1982 RUS
7 WHYTE Rosemarie n/c JAM
8 BARNES Miriam n/c USA

Sanya Richards is still being advertised on the main page of the meet, but is not on the start list anymore. Nicola Sanders, Novlene Williams and Mary Wineberg in the B race before the official start :shock:

The overall winner of this event might come from the "B" race. Novlene Williams could have handled the field in the "A" race.

[mump boy]

Re: Lausanne w400

1 NAEF Martina 1980 SUI
2 MONTSHO Amantle 1983 BOT
3 KAPACHINSKAYA Anastasiya 1979 RUS
4 WILLIAMS Shericka 1985 JAM
5 GUSHCHINA Yuliya 1983 RUS
6 FIROVA Tatyana 1982 RUS
7 WHYTE Rosemarie n/c JAM
8 BARNES Miriam n/c USA

Sanya Richards is still being advertised on the main page of the meet, but is not on the start list anymore. Nicola Sanders, Novlene Williams and Mary Wineberg in the B race before the official start :shock:

The overall winner of this event might come from the "B" race. Novlene Williams could have handled the field in the "A" race.

she's probably ducking Shericka :P

[Jon]

Re: Lausanne w400

The overall winner of this event might come from the "B" race. Novlene Williams could have handled the field in the "A" race.

You were right!

Novlene ran 50.33 to win the 'B' race, while Shericka ran 50.47 to win the 'A' race:
http://www.athletissima.ch/meeting/resu ... ?g=W&c=400

[gh]

Looks to me to be like the old Zürich men's 800s, where they have too many good people for one race, so there's no real A or B race. Rather than trying to parse them all, they go to a bit of a random draw situation, so the better people all can have good lanes.

[euan Track Guru]

Re: Lausanne w400

The overall winner of this event might come from the "B" race. Novlene Williams could have handled the field in the "A" race.

You were right!

Novlene ran 50.33 to win the 'B' race, while Shericka ran 50.47 to win the 'A' race:
http://www.athletissima.ch/meeting/resu ... ?g=W&c=400

Ominous sign. Jamaica will be rich in tallent at the next world Championship to take the women's 4X400 and this may also add to there 2012 haul of gold medals at the next Olympics. Please do not be surprise when this happens these women will be a pool of consistent sub 50.00 which could be about 4 ladies for next year.

[tandfman]

Re: Lausanne w400

Ominous sign. Jamaica will be rich in tallent at the next world Championship to take the women's 4X400 and this may also add to there 2012 haul of gold medals at the next Olympics. Please do not be surprise when this happens these women will be a pool of consistent sub 50.00 which could be about 4 ladies for next year.

They may be rich in talent, but the USA is still richer in that event and there's no reason to think that will change by 2012.

[croflash]

Re: Lausanne w400

Ominous sign. Jamaica will be rich in tallent at the next world Championship to take the women's 4X400 and this may also add to there 2012 haul of gold medals at the next Olympics. Please do not be surprise when this happens these women will be a pool of consistent sub 50.00 which could be about 4 ladies for next year.

They may be rich in talent, but the USA is still richer in that event and there's no reason to think that will change by 2012.

Why not ? Nobody thought they would dominate the 100 and 200 either. I'm not saying it will happen, but I wouldn't be surprised if it does happen. Four years is a long time and I'm sure we don't even know some of the Olympic champions of 2012 today.

[tandfman]

Of course, it could happen. I just don't see how what Shericka and Novlene Williams did in Lausanne, where neither PR'ed, could be considered an "ominous sign." They were on the Jamaican team in Beijing and ran well, but the US ran better.