Considering the 400m talent the U.S has this year....I see about three 43.XX splits and a 44 flat....what were the other splits when MJ ran 42.9?
Considering the 400m talent the U.S has this year....I see about three 43.XX splits and a 44 flat....what were the other splits when MJ ran 42.9?
2:54.20 is the record, set in '98 . not sure of the exact splits, but that averages 43.57 per runner. MJ ran the 42.9 split in a different world record, at the '93 world champs, I think. The '93 team that set the record before the 2:54.20 was not too shabby, with then-world record holder Butch Reynolds (43.29), then- defending olympic champ Quincy Watts (43.50) and world champ Michael Johnson (43.65 pr at the time), plus a fourth guy I can't remember (Andrew Valmon maybe?)
As of 4/24
All-time men's best 4x400m relay
1 2:54.20 United States 1 Uniondale 22.07.1998
Jerome Young (44.3) 14.08.76 USA
Antonio Pettigrew (43.2) 03.11.67 USA
Tyree Washington (43.4) 28.08.76 USA
Michael Johnson (43.3) 13.09.67 USA
2 2:54.29 United States 1 Stuttgart 22.08.1993
Andrew Valmon (44.5) 01.01.65 USA
Quincy Watts (43.6) 19.06.70 USA
Harry Reynolds (43.23) 08.06.64 USA
Michael Johnson (42.94) 13.09.67 USA
3 2:55.74 United States 1 Barcelona 08.08.1992
Andrew Valmon (44.5) 01.01.65 USA
Quincy Watts (43.1) 19.06.70 USA
Michael Johnson (44.7) 13.09.67 USA
Steve Lewis (43.4) 16.05.69 USA
4 2:55.91 United States 1 Athínai 28.08.2004
Otis Harris (44.5) 30.06.82 USA
Derrick Brew (43.6) 28.12.77 USA
Jeremy Wariner (43.98) 31.01.84 USA
Darold Williamson (43.83) 19.02.83 USA
5 2:55.99 United States 1 Atlanta 03.08.1996
LaMont Smith (44.62) 11.12.72 USA
Alvin Harrison (43.84) 20.01.74 USA
Derek Mills (43.66) 09.07.72 USA
Anthuan Maybank (43.87) 30.12.69 USA
A new 4x400m world record is possible, ......the world record team of Jerome Young 44.3, Antonio Pettigrew 43.2, Tyree Washington 43.5, Michael Johnson 43.2 consists of only one runner MJ who broke 44 in the open. This new group of 400 runners is pretty similar to Tyree, Young, and Pettigrew, they are just missing that one stud to bring them home.[quote]Californian wrote:
Hog, thanks for that listing.
The Roc
You're welcome. This site is quite useful.
Strange that many of the people on the world record team have been proven drug cheats.
what is pettigrew doing these days?
Are any of those records clean? Wow. Jerome Young, Butch Reynolds. The list goes on...
Last I heard of Pettigrew is that he is coaching at St.Augustine....this was some time back.
The Roc
Pettigrew is coaching at high school in raleigh and taking the program to new levels.
Athletes learn from a master
Olympic champion Antonio Pettigrew coaching Cardinal Gibbons track team
By TIM STEVENS, Staff Writer
RALEIGH -- Senior Evan Greenberg says former Olympian Antonio Pettigrew has added a new dimension to track and field at Cardinal Gibbons.
The Crusaders had a statewide reputation as a cross country power, and their distance runners helped make them one of the top track teams in the N.C. Independent Schools Athletics Association under former coach Mike Elder.
Now, under Pettigrew's coaching and guidance, sprinters and jumpers also are flourishing.
"We always favored the distance runners before," Greenberg said. "But now it is really exciting for everyone."
Greenberg runs the 400 meters, the same event in which Pettigrew earned a gold medal at the 2000 Olympics in Sydney, Australia. Pettigrew also won a gold medal in the 1991 world championships in Tokyo and set a record in the 4x400-meter relay at the 1998 Goodwill Games.
He previously served as an assistant coach at his college alma mater, St. Augustine's, where he won four NCAA Division II 400-meter national titles.
"How many athletes our age have the opportunity to work with someone like him?" said senior Greg Dziwulski, a sprinter and long jumper.
Sophomore Molly Marucheck, another jumper, said the team feels honored to have Pettigrew.
"Of all the schools he could have gone to, he came here," Marucheck said. "He is a great coach and a really nice man. And he works with everybody. He'll take the jumpers and work with them, then go work with another group."
Pettigrew is a non-faculty coach at Gibbons. He trains elite athletes in the morning, works at a fitness center later in the day and coaches at Gibbons in the afternoon.
"It is a hectic schedule, but I'm doing what I want to do and I still get home at a decent hour," Pettigrew said.
The high school runners have a special place in his heart. He sees himself as an ambassador for track and field, a sport that is trying to regain the public's trust after many of its top stars have admitted or been accused of using steroids.
"I'm just trying to spread the word. Track and field has its problems, especially with the BALCO [steroids] situation, but it is a great sport," he said. "Boys and girls love it if they give it a chance. It is an individual sport, but you are part of a team."
Pettigrew has a thorough knowledge of track and field techniques and training methods but said he is more interested in helping athletes prepare for life.
"Track is a great sport for that," he said. "You learn about working hard and taking responsibility. ... I've always thought that if you can run track, you can handle life."
Pettigrew has a ready audience at Gibbons.
"We all know that he ran in the Olympics," sophomore sprinter Sinead Corrigan said. "He has so many tips to tell us."
The biggest one so far?
"Relax. He is always telling us to relax," she said.
Pettigrew, has impressed junior Conor Finnerty as a teacher.
"He has this easy way of getting his point across," Finnerty said.
If they were to put together:
Jeremy Wariner (44.0)
Andrew Rock (44.66)
Lashawn Merritt (44.67)
Kerron Clement (44.57 indoors)
All those guys, except maybe Wariner, are likely to run 0.5 second faster than listed this year. They have the potential to break 2:54.