Name That Final...

[Jon]

Listed below are the nationalities of athletes who finished in that same order in a specific final. Your task is to name that final (Competition, Year, Event). Name the actual athletes for a couple extra bonus points.

The first is a final of 8 athletes; all of different nationalities:

1. France
2. South Africa
3. USA
4. Italy
5. Zambia
6. Russia
7. Jamaica
8. Czech Rep




And here's the second...

1. Great Britain
2. USA
3. Jamaica
4. Yugoslavia
5. Kenya
6. Germany
7. Marocco
8. Cuba

[Rob]

Re: Name That Final...

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[Jon]

Re: Name That Final...

>The first list represents the Men's 400mH at the 1997 World Championships in
>Athens. The athletes were as follows:

1. Stephane Diagana
2. Llewellyn
>Herbert
3. Bryan Bronson
4. Fabrizio Mori
5. Samuel Matete
6. Ruslan
>Mashchenko
7. Dinsdale Morgan
8. Jir' Muzik


The second was the finishing
>order in the Men's 4x400m Relay at the 1991 World Championships in Tokyo.




Correctamondo!


Time to find a more difficult line-up, methinks....!

[gh]

Re: Name That Final...

Matete was the dead giveaway on the first one. Good legwork by Rob on divining the second though!

[Jon]

Re: Name That Final...

>Matete was the dead giveaway on the first one. Good legwork by Rob on divining
>the second though!



Yeh, as I was typing it I thought that the 'Zambia' would be the easiest part to guess.

I was hoping to baffle the Americans on here with the second one! Naturally, the Brits remember beating US quite vividly, whereas Americans have probably supressed that memory! ;-)

[Powell]

Re: Name That Final...

The first one is men's 400 hurdles in the 1997 WCh, the second is 4x400 in Tokyo 1991

[Jon]

Re: Name That Final...

>The first one is men's 400 hurdles in the 1997 WCh, the second is 4x400 in
>Tokyo 1991



Yeh - just 33 minutes too late!! (Look at the first reply to this topic!)

[Powell]

Re: Name That Final...

Never mind - I was the first to answer the new 'Mr and Mrs X' question :-P