Title: Gateshead 4x100
Conway Hill asked:

A US team won the 4x1 at Gateshead in a nice 37.95 .. Does anyone know who
the personnel was on that team ??

Result was:
4x100:
1 USA (all HSI) (Drummond, Williams, C Johnson, Greene) 37.95
2 GBR (Chambers, Campbell, Devonish, Gardener) 38.35
3, GBR B 39.19
4, USA 2 (Saddler, Griffin, Miller, Dees) 39.60

Most impressive run by the HSI squad. This was early in the meeting (2.25 pm). It had rained hard an hour or two earlier - but no rain at this time. Later rained through much of the afternoon.
The individual 100m was last event at 5.10 pm.

This is my report which accompanies the detailed results in this week's 12-page issue of Athletics International (solid worldwide results to world top 200 standards).

Maurice Greene will not be unduly bothered by his third place in the 100m, but Dwain Chambers was thrilled by his most impressive victory in this IAAF GP II meeting. Despite a headwind of 0.3 m/s and the usual cool, wet conditions in Britainıs North-East he was off well, ahead of Greene at 40m and won clearly with a seasonıs best of 10.11 as Bernard Williams also beat Greene. This race provided a splendid finale for the 8000 crowd who had braved the conditions ­ and who also enjoyed four other British victories ­ from Steve Backley in the javelin, Christian Malcolm, who equalled his seasonıs best at 200m, Donna Fraser, benefitting from training with Cathy Freeman, at her ideal distance of 300m, and from Jonathan Edwards at triple jump.
Edwards had to take five jumps to ensure victory, but he did that emphatically with 17.48 after two long but narrow fouls earlier ­ he reckoned his fourth jump to have been about 17.70-17.80. He is concerned about an ankle injury, but still seems able to produce top-class performances; more worrying was the health of Sandra Glover, world leader at the womenıs 400m hurdles, who started with bandages on both legs, and who pulled out at the first hurdle.
Maurice Greene had enjoyed his first race of the day, for he anchored a USA Select (all HSI members) team to the worldıs fastest 4x100m time of the year ­ 37.95 ­ and he captivated the crowd by encouraging the under-15 sprinters. André Bucher again beat Wilson Kipketer, but the latter is happy with his form, and both men were inside the stadium record. That was smashed in the menıs 1500m and in the womenıs 3000m. Steve Cramıs 3:35.2 from 1985 was left far behind by the brilliant Ali Saïdi-Sief; in only his second race of the year at his favourite distance the 22 year-old Algerian improved his pb to 3:30.82. Sonia OıSullivan kicked for home from 170m to pass Paula Radcliffe, who had led from 1300m, to win at 3000m in 8:33.00 and there were notable pbs from Libbie Hickman, who at the age of 35 improved her best from 8:43.32 to 8:35.02 and from Jo Pavey, who took 17 seconds off her best with 8:36.70 ­ hugely encouraging for a most talented athlete who had missed two years through injury prior to this summer.
Angelo Taylor ran the flat 400m for the first time for over two months and beat Mark Richardson and Cathy Freeman stepped down to run a seasonıs best at 200m, coming from some 3m down after the bend to sweep past Inger Miller and Bev McDonald.

Peter Matthews,
Editor International Athletics Annual, Co-publisher Athletics International
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