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1991 World Championships In Athletics – Men's 4 × 400 Metres Relay
These are the official results of the Men's 4x400 metres event at the 1991 IAAF World Championships in Tokyo, Japan. There were a total number of sixteen participating nations, with three qualifying heats and the final held on Sunday September 1, 1991. The final was won by Great Britain in what was, at the time, the fourth fastest time in history (behind the USA team's 1988 World Record, and two other US times). Going into the meeting, the USA 4 × 400 m team hadn't lost at a major championships in over 7 years. Britain, by contrast, hadn't won a gold medal in the event since the 1936 Berlin Olympics. The British team made a tactical change, switching their top runner Roger Black, expected to be the anchor leg runner, to the first leg. The move paid off. Black ran a 44.6 first leg, catching Andrew Valmon before the handoff. giving Derek Redmond the edge to beat Quincy Watts to the break. Both Watts and Redmond would become famous the following year, Watts for winning the Oly ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Relay Race
A relay race is a racing competition where members of a team take turns completing parts of racecourse or performing a certain action. Relay races take the form of professional races and amateur games. Relay races are common in running, orienteering, swimming, cross-country skiing, biathlon, or ice skating (usually with a baton in the fist). In the Olympic Games, there are several types of relay races that are part of track and field. Relay race, also called Relay, a track-and-field sport consisting of a set number of stages (legs), usually four, each leg run by a different member of a team. The runner finishing one leg is usually required to pass the next runner a stick-like object known as a "baton" while both are running in a marked exchange zone. In most relays, team members cover equal distances: Olympic events for both men and women are the 400-metre (4 × 100-metre) and 1,600-metre (4 × 400-metre) relays. Some non-Olympic relays are held at distances of 800 m, 3,200 m, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Klaus Just
Klaus Just (born 29 March 1964 in Nürtingen, Baden-Württemberg) is a retired West German sprinter. His personal best time was 45.52 seconds, achieved in August 1985 in Stuttgart. Just represented the sports club SV Salamander Kornwestheim SV, Sv, sv, etc. may refer to: Places and language * El Salvador, ISO 3166-1 country code SV * South Vietnam, an extinct state * Svalbard, Norway, FIPS country code SV * Swedish language, ISO 639-1 language code sv * Silicon Valley, a region in n .... Achievements 1Did not finish in the semifinals References * 1964 births Living people People from Nürtingen Sportspeople from Stuttgart (region) West German male sprinters European Athletics Championships medalists SV Salamander Kornwestheim athletes 20th-century German people {{West Germany-athletics-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Simon Kipkemboi
Simeon Kipkemboi (born April 15, 1960) is a former sprinter from Kenya, who represented his native East African country twice at the Summer Olympics: in 1988 and 1992. He is best known for winning the gold medal in the men's 200 metres at the 1987 All-Africa Games. Personal bests *100 metres – 10.2 (1989) *200 metres The 200 metres, or 200-meter dash, is a sprint running event. On an outdoor 400 metre racetrack, the race begins on the curve and ends on the home straight, so a combination of techniques is needed to successfully run the race. A slightl ... – 20.54 (1987) * 400 metres – 44.93 (1990) External links *sports-reference 1960 births Living people Kenyan male sprinters Athletes (track and field) at the 1988 Summer Olympics Athletes (track and field) at the 1990 Commonwealth Games Athletes (track and field) at the 1992 Summer Olympics Olympic athletes for Kenya Commonwealth Games medallists in athletics Commonwealth Games gol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Gitonga
Charles Gitonga (born 5 October 1971) is a retired athlete from Kenya who specialized in the 400 metres. He is best known for winning the gold medal at the 1994 Commonwealth Games in Victoria. His personal best time was 44.20 seconds, achieved in June 1996 in Nairobi. The result gives him a 19th place on the world all-time performers list, and is only 0.02 seconds behind the Kenyan record set by Samson Kitur Samson Kitur (February 25, 1966 — April 25, 2003) was a Kenyan athlete, and an Olympic medalist in 1992. Biography Unlike most of his compatriots, who run in distances 800 metres and up, Kitur specialised in the 400 metres. He won t ... four years earlier. External links * * * 1971 births Living people Kenyan male sprinters Athletes (track and field) at the 1996 Summer Olympics Athletes (track and field) at the 1994 Commonwealth Games Commonwealth Games gold medallists for Kenya Olympic athletes for Kenya Commonwealth Games medallists in at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Simon Kemboi
Simon Kemboi (born March 1, 1967) is a retired sprinter from Kenya. He specialised in 400 metres. He is a World Championships and African Championships medalist, and competed at the Olympics. Career Kemboi was part of the 4x400 relay team that finished fifth at the 1991 World Championships. He competed at the Olympics for first time at the 1992 Summer Olympics, taking part in 400 metres, where he reached semifinal. He was also part of the Kenyan 4x400 relay team that advanced to the final, but did not finish it. At the 1992 IAAF World Cup, he was part of the African 4 × 400 m team that won gold. At the 1993 World Championships, he won silver part of the Kenyan 4 × 400 m relay team. Other members of the team were Samson Kitur, Kennedy Ochieng and Abednego Matilu. In the 400 metres individual race he was 7th. He won bronze over 400 metres at the 1993 African Championships in a race won by compatriot Kennedy Ochieng, and may have been part of the Kenyan 4 × 400 m team t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samson Kitur
Samson Kitur (February 25, 1966 — April 25, 2003) was a Kenyan athlete, and an Olympic medalist in 1992. Biography Unlike most of his compatriots, who run in distances 800 metres and up, Kitur specialised in the 400 metres. He won the continental championship in 1991, and the next year he took the bronze medal at the 1992 Summer Olympics, behind winner Quincy Watts. A year later, another bronze medal was his at the World Championships in Stuttgart. He died suddenly of an unspecified illness at age 37 in his home in Eldoret Eldoret is a principal town in the Rift Valley region of Kenya and serves as the capital of Uasin Gishu County. The town was referred to by white settlers as Farm 64, 64 and colloquially by locals as 'Sisibo'. As per the 2019 Kenya Population ..., his home Kerotet Village near Ziwa. Two of his brothers were also Olympic athletes: Simon Kitur and David Kitur. External links *Sports-reference profile 1966 births 2003 deaths Kenya ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Slobodan Branković (athletics)
Slobodan Branković may refer to: * Slobodan Branković (footballer) (born 1963), Serbian former footballer * Slobodan Branković (sprinter) (born 1967), Serbian former Yugoslavian sprinter and athletics administrator {{Hndis, name=Brankovic, Slobodan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ismail Mačev
Ismail Mačev ( Macedonian: Исмаил Мачев; 3 January 1960 – 21 January 2019) was a Macedonian sprinter who competed for Yugoslavia in the 400 metres. He took part in the 1988 Summer Olympics as well as two World Championships. In addition, he won a silver medal at the 1987 Mediterranean Games. International competitions Personal bests Outdoors *200 metres – 21.5 (Skopje 1981) * 400 metres – 45.83 (Ljubljana 1987) *800 metres – 1:47.46 (Sarajevo 1988) Indoors *200 metres – 22.05 (Budapest 1987) * 400 metres – 47.11 (Budapest 1990) Death Mačev died of lung cancer Lung cancer, also known as lung carcinoma (since about 98–99% of all lung cancers are carcinomas), is a malignant lung tumor characterized by uncontrolled cell growth in tissues of the lung. Lung carcinomas derive from transformed, malign ... on 21 January 2019 in Belgrade, Serbia. References All-Athletics 1960 births 2019 deaths Sportspeople from Skopje Yugoslav male sprinte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nenad Đurović (sprinter)
Nenad Đurović ( Cyrillic: Ненад Ђуровић; born 17 January 1986) is a Montenegrin retired football defender who mostly played for Sutjeska Nikšić. Club career The first club for which he played for was FK Sutjeska Nikšić from his hometown. He was eventually traded to FK Zeta and played with that team until he made his first career move to a foreign club by signing with Spartak Trnava in January 2008. He played again with FK Zeta before signing with FK Inđija that finished top in the Serbian First League achieving promotion to the Serbian SuperLiga. After playing the first half of the 2010–11 season in Serbia, he moved at winter break to Hungary and signed with Szolnoki MAV FC. In January 2012, after a half season spent with FC Petrolul Ploiești in Romanian Liga I, he returned to FK Sutjeska Nikšić playing now in the Montenegrin First League. He was part of the Serbia and Montenegro under-19 team at the 2005 UEFA European Under-19 Championship. He also p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dejan Jovković
Dejan Jovković ( sr-cyr, Дејан Јовковић; born 23 July 1968) is a Serbian former sprinter. He competed in the men's 200 metres at the 1992 Summer Olympics as an Independent Olympic Participant Independent or Independents may refer to: Arts, entertainment, and media Artist groups * Independents (artist group), a group of modernist painters based in the New Hope, Pennsylvania, area of the United States during the early 1930s * Independen .... References External links * 1968 births Living people People from Zemun Athletes from Belgrade Serbian male sprinters Yugoslav male sprinters Athletes (track and field) at the 1992 Summer Olympics Olympic athletes as Independent Olympic Participants Mediterranean Games silver medalists for Yugoslavia Mediterranean Games medalists in athletics Athletes (track and field) at the 1991 Mediterranean Games World Athletics Championships athletes for Yugoslavia {{Yugoslavia-athletics-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seymour Fagan
Seymour Fagan (born 30 December 1967 in Old Harbour Bay) is a retired male track and field sprinter from Jamaica who specializes in the 400 metres. He won a bronze medal in 4 × 400 metres relay at the 1991 World Championships, together with teammates Patrick O'Connor, Devon Morris and Winthrop Graham Winthrop Graham (born 17 November 1965 in Westmoreland, Jamaica) is a retired athlete who mainly competed in the 400 metres hurdles. He won two Olympic medals and three World Championship medals. His personal best time was 47.60 seconds, achie .... Achievements References * 1967 births Living people People from Saint Catherine Parish Jamaican male sprinters Athletes (track and field) at the 1991 Pan American Games World Athletics Championships medalists Pan American Games medalists in athletics (track and field) Pan American Games bronze medalists for Jamaica Goodwill Games medalists in athletics Competitors at the 1990 Goodwill Games Medalists at the 1991 P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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