Relay trivia

[Powell]

Name the country whose team ran a sub-3:00 in the 4x400 relay while its national record for individual 400 was outside 45.00

[Pego]

Re: Relay trivia

Poland?

[abinferno]

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Gotta be Poland, or maybe Japan.

[BisonHurdler]

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Serbia?

[BisonHurdler]

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The Japanese never broke 3:00.

[Jon]

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It's not Poland - their NR is 44.62 (ran by Tomasz Czubak in Seville).

[BisonHurdler]

Re: Relay trivia

>It's not Poland - their NR is 44.62 (ran by Tomasz Czubak in Seville).



Reread the original post and you'll see why you are not necessarily correct in your conclusion.

[Archivist]

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If the question is posed by Powell, there's a good chance the answer is Poland.

[Jon]

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>Reread the original post and you'll see why you are not
>necessarily correct in your conclusion.



Ahhhh.... you're right, I misread it.

The answer could well be Poland, then. Their sub-45 NR was set in '99, but they have ran sub-3:00min relays twice in '98 and once in '97 (and then also in '99, just after Czubak set the NR; and once more in 2001).

I'm still trying to find out the NR for Serbia & Montenegro...

[BisonHurdler]

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I'm still trying to find
>out the NR for Serbia & Montenegro...




Look no further:


400 m. Slobodan Brankovic 45''30 29 Aug 90

[BisonHurdler]

Re: Relay trivia

Look like i win

[BisonHurdler]

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Also LOOKS like I can't spell.

[Powell]

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Erm... I guess I shouldn't have said 'THE country'. Poland and Yugoslavia (not Serbia - this was before the breakdown of the old Yugoslavia) are both correct answers. Poland was the more spectacular case, though - they ran 2:58.00 (average leg time of 44.50) while the national record in the individual was 45.26 !

[richardh]

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From memory it was Kenya (2:59.8 or 6?) in 1968 behind the USA's 2:56.19