IAAF ratifies USA women’s 4x200m relay world record
IAAF Release
14 February 2001 - Monte Carlo - The IAAF has officially ratified the record time of the USA women’s team for the rarely run 4 x 200 m relay.
The American team of LaTasha Jenkins, LaTasha Colander-Richardson, Nanceen Perry and Marion Jones established a new mark of 1:27.46 in Philadelphia, USA on 29 April 2000.
Their performance demolished the twenty year old record of 1:28.15 set by the GDR team of Marlies Göhr, Romy Müller, Bärbel Wöckel and Marita Koch on 9 August 1980.
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