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unusual facts about relay



1912 in New Zealand

Malcolm Champion was a member of the Australasian team which won the Gold medal in the Men's 4x200m Freestyle Relay at the 1912 Summer Olympics in Stockholm.

787 series

From the start of the revised timetable on 12 March 2011, with the completion of the Kyushu Shinkansen, 787 series sets will no longer be used on Relay Tsubame services.

André Gusperti

He swam in the winning 4x100 m medley relay at the 1997 Mediterranean Games (Merisi, Fioravanti, A. Gusperti, Rosolino).

Andrey Rudnitskiy

The next year the relay team finished seventh at the 2005 World Championships with Forshev, Rudnitskiy, Oleg Mishukov and Yevgeniy Lebedev.

Antony Matkovich

He made his international debut in 2001 at the 2001 World Championships in Fukuoka, Japan where he collected a gold medal by swimming in the heats of the 4 × 200 m freestyle relay.

Balto

The serum was transported by train from Anchorage to Nenana, where the first musher embarked as part of a relay aimed at delivering the needed serum to Nome.

Biathlon at the Winter Olympics

At the 1968 Winter Olympics in Grenoble, the men's 4×7.5 km relay debuted, followed by the 10 km sprint event at the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, New York.

CBAM-FM

The original CBA transmitter site at the Tantramar Marshes near Sackville continued to broadcast Radio Canada International around the world on shortwave radio as well as relay broadcasts for several foreign shortwave broadcasters.

Cuba at the 1968 Summer Olympics

Enrique Figuerola, Pablo Montes, Juan Morales, and Hermes Ramirez — Athletics, Men's 4×100 metre relay

Dagny Knutson

At the 2009 National Championships, Knutson qualified to swim in the 4x200 m freestyle relay at the 2009 World Aquatics Championships in Rome by placing fifth in the 200 m freestyle.

Denean Howard

Denean Howard and her 3 sisters gained fame in 1979 when the four of them teamed up to set the National High School record in the 4x440 yard relay for San Gorgonio High School in San Bernardino.

Die Konsequenz

The original version of the film received a Wertvoll (i.e. "recommended") quality award in the German Filmprädikat rating scheme, but was censored due to its perceived incendiary content in the first television broadcast on ARD on November 8, 1977, and regional affiliate Bayerischer Rundfunk refused to relay the transmission signal.

Edgar Itt

Edgar Itt (born June 8, 1967, Gedern) was a West German athlete who competed for West Germany at the 1988 Summer Olympics held in Seoul, South Korea where he won the bronze medal in the 4 x 400 metre relay with his team mates Norbert Dobeleit, Jörg Vaihinger and Ralf Lübke.

Edgewood Regional High School

Dennis Mitchell (born 1966, class of 1984), track and field athlete, winner of the gold medal in 4x100 m relay at the 1992 Summer Olympics.

Fernando Cañales

Fernando became a National Champion while representing Club Wolverine in 1986, when he won the 4 x 100 meter free relay alongside three other Wolverines, Joe Parker, Greg Varner and Dave Kerska.

Gaston Féry

Born in Longwy, Meurthe-et-Moselle he competed for France in the 1920 Summer Olympics held in Antwerp, Belgium where he won the bronze medal with his team mates Géo André, Maurice Delvart and André Devaux in the men's 4 x 400 metre relay event.

Graham Gristwood

He received a gold medal in the relay event at the 2008 World Orienteering Championships in Olomouc, together with Jon Duncan and Jamie Stevenson.

Harald Schmid

Schmid won bronze with the 4x400 m relay team at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal as well as an individual bronze in 400 m hurdles at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles in 1984.

Henry Carr

While competing for the ASU Sun Devils, he won three national titles; along the way setting world records at 200 meters, at 220 yards, and as a member of the Sun Devil 4 x 440 yard relay team.

Herb McKenley

Herbert Henry "Herb" McKenley OM (July 10, 1922 – November 26, 2007) was a Jamaican athlete, winner of a gold medal in the 4x400 m relay at the 1952 Summer Olympics.

Hidenori Isa

As of February 2013, his best Biathlon World Cup finish is 8th, as part of the Japanese men's relay team at Ruhpolding in 2003/04.

Intercom

Digital intercoms use Category 5 cable and relay information back and forth in data packets using the Internet protocol architecture.

James Espir

His maternal grandfather Edward Smouha won the bronze medal as a member of the Great Britain team in the 4 x 100 metre relay at the 1928 Summer Olympics.

Laurentian High School

Glenroy Gilbert Olympic Athlete Gold Medalist 4x100m relay Atlanta 1996,

Lawrence Wallace

At the 1938 Empire Games, he was a member of the English relay team which won the silver medal in the 4×110 yards event.

Mara Zini

Mara Zini (born October 26, 1979 in Sondalo) is an Italian short track speed skater who won a bronze medal in the 3000m relay at the 2006 Winter Olympics.

Margaret Wellington

At the 1950 British Empire Games she won three silver medals, in the 110 yd and 440 yd freestyle and 3×110 yd medley relay, and a bronze in the 4×110 yd freestyle relay.

Morgedal

The Olympic Flames for the 1952 Winter Olympics in Oslo and the 1960 Winter Olympics in Squaw Valley, and the flame used in the national torch relay for the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer (which was later used as the flame for the 1994 Winter Paralympics), were all lit at the birthplace of Sondre Norheim, Øvrebø in Morgedal.

Nathalie Bourillon

4th, European Championship relay race (together with Véronique Lathuraz and Valentine Fabre)

Nicholas Shackell

He finished 8th as a member of the relay squad in the final of the 4×100 metre freestyle relay, but the 4×100 metre medley relay team was disqualified in the preliminaries.

OK Tyr

The following year saw victories in Tiomila again and the Swedish relay championships.

Øyvin Thon

He is also five times Relay champion, as a member of the Norwegian winning teams in 1981 (Thun, Switzerland), 1983 (Zalaegerszeg, Hungary), 1985 (Bendigo, Australia), 1987 (Gérardmer, France) and 1989 (Skaraborg, Sweden).

Packet Assembler/Disassembler

A FRAD (Frame Relay Assembler/Disassembler) is a similar device for accessing Frame Relay networks.

Paul Genevay

Paul Genevay (born 21 January 1939 in Lagny-sur-Marne, Seine-et-Marne) is a former French athlete, who won the bronze medal in the 4 x 100 metre relay at the 1964 Summer Olympics held in Tokyo, Japan.

Paul Harmsworth

He represented Great Britain and Northern Ireland at the 1988 Olympic Games in the 4 x 400 m relay, running in the preliminary round as the British team (with Brian Whittle, Kriss Akabusi, Todd Bennett, and Phil Brown running in the final) finished fifth.

Peta-Gaye Dowdie

As a member of the Jamaican sprint relay team she won a bronze medal at the 1999 World Championships and gold medals at the 2006 Commonwealth Games and 2007 Pan American Games.

Radio in Sri Lanka

The International Broadcasting Bureau broadcasts programmes from Voice of America, Radio Azadi, Radio Free Afghanistan, Radio Free Asia, Radio Liberty and Radio Sawa on short wave using the relay station at Iranawila.

Rasmus Thrane Hansen

At the World Games in 2013 he placed fourth in the middle distance, an won a silver medal in the mixed relay with the Danish team.

Ray Ewry

His 8 Olympic gold medals in individual events (i.e. non-relay) are second only to Michael Phelps's 11.

Siegfried Eifrig

His relay began at Unter den Linden and made its way to Olympiastadion in Berlin, where he lit two urns which burned until the end of the summer games.

Synnøve Solemdal

On 11 December 2010, she along with her team-mates placed third in 4 × 6 km Relay in Hochfilzen.

Teeswater, Ontario

Jennie Fletcher (swimmer) moved to Teeswater after winning gold for Britain in the 4 x 100 swimming relay during the 1912 Olympics.

Terri Dendy

In 1993, at the World Indoor Championships in Toronto, Dendy won a silver medal in the 4x400 m relay.

TuS Makkabi Berlin

In 1924, Lilli Henoch, the world record holder in the discus, shot put, and 4 × 100 meters relay events, trained the women's section in the club.

Tyne Bridge

This was in preparation for Newcastle hosting the Olympic football tournament, and the Olympic torch relay, in which Bear Grylls zipwired from the top of the arch, to Gateshead quayside.

Ursula Kadan

At the World Games in 2013 she won a bronze medal in the mixed relay, together with Gernot Kerschbaumer, Robert Merl and Anna Nilsson Simkovics.

W49AY

WAY TV is relayed on W15AZ, a low-powered relay on channel 15 in Alabaster, Alabama.

Wes Kittley

Former Tech athletes coached by Kittley would go on to win 3 Medals in the 2012 Olympic Games: Olympic Gold medalist in the 4x400 Relay Michael Mathieu, Olympic Bronze medalist in the 4x400 Relay Shereefa Lloyd, and Olympic Silver medalist in the 10,000M Sally Kipyego.

Women's Media Centre of Cambodia

We potentially reach out to 75 percent of the population through a 10 kW antenna located in Phnom Penh, four relay stations in Kampong Thom province, Svay Rieng province, Battambang province, and Kratie province and via extensive partner radio networks throughout the country.

WSUN-TV

In 1954, however, the area's main telephone provider, Peninsular Telephone (later owned by GTE), provided WSUN-TV with a private microwave link in time for the World Series, making it the first television station in the country to receive live programming via microwave relay.


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