2023 World Athletics Championships – Mixed 4 × 400 metres relay
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The mixed 4 × 400 metres relay at the 2023 World Athletics Championships was held over two rounds at the National Athletics Centre in Budapest, Hungary, on 19 August 2023. It was the third time that this mixed-sex event was contested at the World Athletics Championships. Teams could qualify through their position at the 2022 World Athletics Championships or the World Athletics top list.
Sixteen teams competed in round 1, where the teams of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, France, and Hungary broke national records. Eight teams advanced to the final, that was won by the team of the United States in a world record of 3:08.80 minutes, followed by the team of Great Britain and Northern Ireland in second place in a national record of 3:11.06 min and the team of Czech Republic in third place in a national record of 3:11.98 min. The Netherlands did not finish in the final, after their anchor runner Femke Bol had fallen five metres before the line.
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In the mixed 4 × 400 metres relay, a team consists of four competing athletes, two men and two women. An athletes runs one round on a 400-metre track and passes on a baton to the next team member. The mandatory running order is man-woman-man-woman.
This mixed-sex event was introduced at the 2019 World Athletics Championships and had been contested two times before.
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