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2016 European Athletics Championships – Men's 4 × 100 Metres Relay
The men's 4 x 100 metres relay at the 2016 European Athletics Championships took place at the Olympic Stadium ''Olympic Stadium'' is the name usually given to the main stadium of an Olympic Games. An Olympic stadium is the site of the opening and closing ceremonies. Many, though not all, of these venues actually contain the words ''Olympic Stadium'' as ... on 9 and 10 July. Records Schedule Results Round 1 First 3 in each heat (Q) and 2 best performers (q) advance to the Final. Final References External links amsterdam2016.org official championship site. {{DEFAULTSORT:2016 European Athletics Championships, Men's 4 x 100 Metres Relay Relay 4 x 100 M Relays at the European Athletics Championships ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
4 X 100 Metres Relay
4 (four) is a number, numeral and digit. It is the natural number following 3 and preceding 5. It is the smallest semiprime and composite number, and is considered unlucky in many East Asian cultures. In mathematics Four is the smallest composite number, its proper divisors being and . Four is the sum and product of two with itself: 2 + 2 = 4 = 2 x 2, the only number b such that a + a = b = a x a, which also makes four the smallest squared prime number p^. In Knuth's up-arrow notation, , and so forth, for any number of up arrows. By consequence, four is the only square one more than a prime number, specifically three. The sum of the first four prime numbers two + three + five + seven is the only sum of four consecutive prime numbers that yields an odd prime number, seventeen, which is the fourth super-prime. Four lies between the first proper pair of twin primes, three and five, which are the first two Fermat primes, like seventeen, which is the third. On the other hand, t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
European Athletic Association
The European Athletic Association (more commonly known as European Athletics) is the governing body for Sport of athletics, athletics in Europe. It is one of the six Area Associations of the world's athletics governing body World Athletics. European Athletics has 51 members and is headquartered in Lausanne. Originally created in 1932 as a European Committee, it was made into an independent body during the Bucharest conference of 1969. The first European Athletics congress took place in Paris on 6–8 October 1970, with Dutchman Adriaan Paulen elected as its first president. From a volunteer-led organization based in the acting Secretary's home country, European Athletics has developed into a professional organization with a permanent base in Switzerland. European Athletics runs and regulates several championships and meetings across Europe – both indoor and outdoor. History After the foundation of the International Association of Athletic Federations (IAAF) in 1912, it was cle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Justyn Warner
Justyn Warner, (born June 28, 1987) is a Canadian track athlete specializing in the 100 metres. He is the former Canadian Junior record holder at that distance with a time of 10.26. He anchored the Canadian 4 × 100 m relay team to a third-place finish at the 2012 Summer Olympics, but they were later disqualified for a teammate stepping out his lane. In 2013 he anchored Canada to a bronze in the same event at the 2013 World Championships in Athletics. He was coached by Kevin Tyler. Career Warner is a graduate of Birchmount Park Collegiate Institute in Scarborough, Ontario. He was a double-sport athlete playing football and running track, where he was an outstanding sprint athlete. In 2005, his senior year he won four provincial O.F.S.A.A titles on the track: 100m, 200m, 4 × 100 m, and 4 × 400 m. On July 30, 2005, he finished second in the 100 m at the 2005 Pan Am Junior Games, held in Windsor, Ontario, in a time of 10.26, a new Canadian Junior record. A year later on August 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dontae Richards-Kwok
Dontae Richards-Kwok (born March 1, 1989) is a Canadian sprinter of Chinese-Jamaican descent. Richards-Kwok won a bronze at the 2013 World Championships in Athletics as part of the men's 4 x 100 m relay team, which also included Gavin Smellie, Aaron Brown, and Justyn Warner Justyn Warner, (born June 28, 1987) is a Canadian track athlete specializing in the 100 metres. He is the former Canadian Junior record holder at that distance with a time of 10.26. He anchored the Canadian 4 × 100 m relay team to a third-place f .... References External links Athletics Canada Profile* * http://pridenews.ca/2015/05/21/a-track-star-in-the-making-introducing-dontae-richards-kwok/ {{DEFAULTSORT:Richards-Kwok, Dontae 1989 births Black Canadian track and field athletes Canadian male sprinters Living people Athletes from Toronto York University alumni Athletes (track and field) at the 2014 Commonwealth Games Commonwealth Games competitors for Canada Athletes (track and field) at th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ben Williams (sprinter)
Ben Williams may refer to: Sports *Ben Williams (American football, born 1954) (1954–2020), American football defensive lineman * Ben Williams (American football, born 1970), American football defensive lineman * Ben Williams (footballer, born 1900) (1900–1968), Swansea Town, Everton and Wales international footballer *Ben Williams (footballer, born 1982), English football *Ben Williams (footballer, born 1999), Welsh footballer *Ben Williams (referee) (born 1977), Australian soccer referee * Ben Williams (rugby union, born 1989), English rugby union player * Ben Williams (rugby union, born 2002), Welsh rugby union player * Ben Williams (triple jumper) (born 1992), British triple jumper * Ben Williams (cricketer, born 1992), English banker and cricketer * Ben Williams (cricketer, born 1993), English cricketer Other *Ben Williams (actor) (1892–1959), British actor of the 1940s *Ben Williams (musician) (born 1984), American jazz bassist *Ben Ames Williams (1899–1953), American ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gavin Smellie
Gavin Ramon Smellie (born June 26, 1986) is a Jamaican-born Canadian sprinter. Born in Saint Andrew Parish, Jamaica, Smellie moved to Etobicoke in Canada at the age of 14. Smellie is a graduate of Western Kentucky University which he attended on an athletic scholarship. He represented the WKU Hilltoppers in collegiate track and field competitions. He participated in the 2012 Summer Olympics in the 4 × 100 m relay with teammates Jared Connaughton, Oluseyi Smith and Justyn Warner. In the final, the Canadian relay team arrived in third place and initially believed they had won bronze but they were disqualified when officials judged that Connaughton had stepped on the lane line just before passing the baton. The relay team from Trinidad and Tobago were awarded the bronze. Smellie was selected to represent Canada at the 2018 Commonwealth Games. In 2021, he competed in the Men's 100 metres of the 2020 Summer Olympics and was eliminated in the quarterfinals. He competed at the 2020 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yugoslavia
Yugoslavia (; sh-Latn-Cyrl, separator=" / ", Jugoslavija, Југославија ; sl, Jugoslavija ; mk, Југославија ;; rup, Iugoslavia; hu, Jugoszlávia; rue, label=Pannonian Rusyn, Югославия, translit=Juhoslavija; sk, Juhoslávia; ro, Iugoslavia; cs, Jugoslávie; it, Iugoslavia; tr, Yugoslavya; bg, Югославия, Yugoslaviya ) was a country in Southeast Europe and Central Europe for most of the 20th century. It came into existence after World War I in 1918 under the name of the ''Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes'' by the merger of the provisional State of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs (which was formed from territories of the former Austria-Hungary) with the Kingdom of Serbia, and constituted the first union of the South Slavic people as a sovereign state, following centuries in which the region had been part of the Ottoman Empire and Austria-Hungary. Peter I of Serbia was its first sovereign. The kingdom gained international recog ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
