Sydney Who? Gabrielle Thomas (Harvard) runs epic 49.44 4x400 split at Heps (with video)

In a meaningless 4x4 team wise.

She just doesn’t like to lose.

Between her and McLaughlin the young sprint talent in NCAA is insane

One of those meet records was wind-aided (long jump, wind 2.3m/s) FYI

But she got the baton about 2.8 sec down and came back to win by 0.04 sec. The girl she ran down was a 2016 Olympian in 4x1 relay and a Commonwealth Games semifinalist in the 400m.

The women's 400 at NCAAs is going to be MASSIVE with Gabby 49.44r, Sydney 49:38r already, and both lost to Ellis indoors! Okolo's huge 49.71 CR could go down.

Looming Showdown wrote:

The women's 400 at NCAAs is going to be MASSIVE with Gabby 49.44r, Sydney 49:38r already, and both lost to Ellis indoors! Okolo's huge 49.71 CR could go down.

Gabby Thomas didn't run the 400m at NCAA indoors

The Fokus wrote:

Looming Showdown wrote:

The women's 400 at NCAAs is going to be MASSIVE with Gabby 49.44r, Sydney 49:38r already, and both lost to Ellis indoors! Okolo's huge 49.71 CR could go down.

Gabby Thomas didn't run the 400m at NCAA indoors

Opps, I forgot she doubled the 60. I wonder what she'll do at NCAA?

Looming Showdown wrote:

The Fokus wrote:

Gabby Thomas didn't run the 400m at NCAA indoors

Opps, I forgot she doubled the 60. I wonder what she'll do at NCAA?

I bet she’ll attempt the 100, 200, and LJ at regionals. As to whether or not she gets to the finals in all three is a different story.

She won by Hal's a second in the 100m, one second in the 200m and 40cm in the LJ. In Addison to being on the winning team in the 4x100 and 4x400 as stated earlier.

Obviously Heps is not a very competitive conference, but that is quite the domination.

In spite of her performance Harvard still lost to Penn, but when is the last time that Harvard women came top 2 at the outdoor conference championship?

Gygygyg wrote:

In spite of her performance Harvard still lost to Penn, but when is the last time that Harvard women came top 2 at the outdoor conference championship?

Last year when they won.

lagsun wrote:

Gygygyg wrote:

In spite of her performance Harvard still lost to Penn, but when is the last time that Harvard women came top 2 at the outdoor conference championship?

Last year when they won.

And the previous four track season when they also won, five in a row...

green growing leaves wrote:

lagsun wrote:

Last year when they won.

And the previous four track season when they also won, five in a row...

Ok then. Thomas was no big help this year...

This is very exciting. I do hope these three women can compete at some point this season.

It is nuts that NCAA has two women that can split 49 when the 400 is maybe not even their second or even third best event?!?!

We put a video of her epic run up in the first post so scroll up if you haven't seen it.

Here are her wins in the 4 x100, 100 and 200.

4 x 100:

https://twitter.com/HarvardTrack_XC/status/993168176568455168

100:

https://twitter.com/HarvardTrack_XC/status/993210250273566720

200:

https://twitter.com/HarvardTrack_XC/status/993212731145666560

Best part of this thing is Rojo was the color commentator and he nailed the 49.44 split on his watch.

Lol that was Rojo??? I was happy he was suitably excited. What a run.

Also the year before that - when they won.

lagsun wrote:

Gygygyg wrote:

In spite of her performance Harvard still lost to Penn, but when is the last time that Harvard women came top 2 at the outdoor conference championship?

Last year when they won.

Surprising overall. Watching her flotrack video, she lacked fluidity to her movement. Clearly a gifted sprinter but did not appear very coordinated.

bloviating wrote:

Surprising overall. Watching her flotrack video, she lacked fluidity to her movement. Clearly a gifted sprinter but did not appear very coordinated.

... which suggests that she can run even faster.