The women's

4 × 400 metres relay The 4 × 400 metres relay or long relay is an athletics track event in which teams consist of four runners who each complete 400 metres or one lap. It is traditionally the final event of a track meet. At top class events, th ...

at the

2022 World Athletics Indoor Championships The 18th World Athletics Indoor Championships were held from 18 to 20 March 2022 in Belgrade, Serbia. Ethiopia headed the medal table, with 4 gold medals, despite winning only nine in total. United States, second on gold medals won with 3, won t ...

took place on 20 March 2022.

Summary

The United States was the fastest qualifying team from the morning heats but it was Junelle Bromfield from the slowest qualifying team, Jamaica who appeared to take a slight lead through the first two turns. From the cones, Lieke Klaver, running her fifth fast 400 metres within about 56 hours, accelerated Netherlands past Bromfield to take the lead at the bell. USA's Na'Asha Robinson tried to get past Klaver but was held off, forced to running wide through the penultimate turn. Bromfield then went by on the inside, chasing after Klaver. Then

Natalia Kaczmarek Natalia Kaczmarek (born 17 January 1998) is a Polish athlete sprinter who specialises in the 400 metres. She won the silver medal in the event at the 2022 European Championships. Kaczmarek earned several global medals as part of 4 x ...

came up to put Poland into third place before the handoff. Eveline Saalberg held off Janieve Russell as the field stayed in the same order through three turns. Saalberg began to tie up, Russell went by and extended a big lead for Jamaica. Taking the baton in fourth place, Brittany Aveni went around Poland's Kinga Gacka and Netherlands' Lisanne de Witte and closed down the lead of

Roneisha McGregor Roneisha McGregor (born 9 October 1997) is a Jamaican sprinter. Competing in finals of 4 × 400 metres relays, she won a bronze medal in the women's relay at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, and a silver in the mixed relay at the 2019 World Champi ...

. Aveni couldn't get past McGregor, Gacka followed and took the rail immediately behind McGregor, forcing Aveni wide. Ginka slowed on the final turn, Aveni still couldn't get by McGregor by the handoff. The anchor leg was a rematch of the 400, with Jamaica's bronze medalist

Stephenie Ann McPherson Stephenie Ann McPherson (born 25 November 1988) is a Jamaican track and field athlete, who specializes in the 400 metres. She has won a bronze medal in the event at the 2013 World Championships in Athletics, 2013 World Championships, and then p ...

getting away in the lead, USA was next in line with semi-finalist

Lynna Irby Lynna Irby (born December 6, 1998) is an American track and field sprinter who competes in the 100m, 200m, and 400m dash events. At the 400m dash, she set an all-time world record at the age of 12 running 54.57 before becoming the fastest Americ ...

, followed by Poland with 3rd place

Justyna Święty-Ersetic Justyna Święty-Ersetic (; born 3 December 1992) is a Polish sprinter specialising in the 400 metres. She was the 2018 European champion and a two-time European Indoor Championship medallist in this event. Święty-Ersetic won many medals ...

, also in her fifth race in the same time span, and in fourth place, Netherlands' silver medalist

Femke Bol Femke Bol (; born 23 February 2000) is a Dutch track and field athlete who specialises in the 400 metres hurdles and 400 metres. In the 400 metres hurdles, Bol's personal best is 51.45 seconds, which is a European record and ma ...

. They ran in that order, single file, chased by GBR's Jessie Knight until the final straightaway. McPherson came off the turn wide into lane 2 to protect her lead. This forced Irby to the outside of lane 2 looking for running room to pass. Święty-Ersetic went to lane 3 to run past Irby which opened up lane one for Bol. 20 metres before the finish it was the three, dead even, shoulder to shoulder across the track, battling for the silver medal 2 steps behind McPherson. Bol was the fastest to the line, barely ahead of Święty-Ersetic who had gotten past Irby, the three separated by about half a metre.

Results

Heats

Qualification: First 2 in each heat (Q) and the next 2 fastest (q) advance to the Final. The heats were started at 11:45.

Final

The final was started at 19:55.Final results
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References

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4 × 400 metres relay at the World Athletics Indoor Championships