Women's 4 ×400m Relay FINALS |Commonwealth Games 2022 Athletics |7th Aug 22 |BIRMINGHAM ENGLAND |

One last race of drama, one last lunge for glory. Scotland will be on the outside in the women's 4x4. Nicole Juergens in fine form. The Jamaicans are the defending champions. Bronze in the Olympics last year, silver last month in Eugene. Watch for Gould to anchor them home. Nigerians have got a brilliant quartet. Silver behind Jamaica in Glasgow and on the Gold Coast. The South Africans. Curtsy on the lead leg. She's the African champion. Watch for van der Belt. Bronze in the four hurdles just behind her. The Canadians just off the podium in Tokyo. The very experienced Kyra Constantine will anchor them. Could Kenya win their first medal in the women's 4x4? Mary Moura, champion in the 800, will be on the anchor lane. And listen to this. In the women's 4x4 28 years ago. Almost three decades later, is it the host nation turn? Botswana on the inside in two. Djele on the lead leg for them. Very experienced athlete. Botswana's got the bronze on the Gold Coast. One last act of drama on a week that will long linger in the memory of everybody lucky enough to be here. It's the final of the women's 4x400 metre relay. Botswana in two. England in three. Kenya four. Canada five. South Africa six. Nigeria seven. Jamaica eight. And Scotland on the outside in lane nine. Huge moment for the eight women ready to start the battle. Here we go then with an epic politics. Pretty even at the moment. No big move yet from Salmon, the 400 hurdler specialist. Second from the left-hand side for Jamaica. Obi of Nigeria beginning to go well. England have Victoria Uhurugu. Silver medalist in the individual 400 on the lead leg. And she's beginning to close down on Nduru. African bronze medalist four years ago. Zoe Clark on the outside for Scotland. Now Salmon using that 400 hurdle strength to begin to come through. Uhurugu running well. The Nigerians just going backwards a little bit. Watch for the positions on this first changeover. England for Scotland going well. And also the Canadians in the mix. A very solid lead there from Uhurugu for England. And as they break from lanes here. So the second leg run up. Williams goes into the lead. Fantastic for England at the moment. Jodie Williams had a wonderful run for a bronze in the individual 400. Jamaica is past England there on this second leg. Jamaica with Janelle Bromfield on this second leg. Nothing between these three. But they're beginning to get away. Really good running here by Bromfield showing her strength. Jodie Williams absolutely ecstatic with that individual bronze. At the end of a difficult season. Listen to the noise. It's incredible. And there are still two legs to go. Bromfield now beginning to wade through Treacle. Jamaica from England from Canada. And the Nigerians are a long, long way out of it at the moment. Well Scotland in third place at the moment. Beth Dobbin was in Treacle in the last 50 meters. Deserve that for them. They're in fourth place. And then down the back straight. Jamaica from England. And the English third leg runner Amapipi. Who's had a wonderful season. A wonderful game. Takes the lead with 200 to run. Past the Jamaican third leg runner Ronisha McGregor. And the gap is there. It's three meters. Canada a further couple of meters back. And Pippi continues to put on the power here. Listen to the noise for Amapipi. She was only just off the podium in the individual 400 meters. England have not won this title for nearly three decades. The home crowd willing them on. Roaring them on. One last lap for one last gold. England lead. Canada and Jamaica tied for second here. And they have Jessie Knight in their sights. It's Gould the 800 meter specialist. Trying to close for Jamaica. With Constantine of Canada. So many times the Canadians have pulled it out of the bag. Knight is beginning to feel the pressure here. Can she hang on? One last burst for glory. Is it going to be England's night? It's been a glittering glorious week of athletics. She's still driving. She's still pushing. But Constantine is closing. What a finish to an epic week of athletics. Is it England or is it Canada? They're side by side. There's nothing to separate them. Oh my gosh. It's one of the best finishes to a 4x4 relay we have ever seen. Usually, usually it goes to the athlete closing with the momentum. But it was so so close. Somehow, somehow Jessie Knight managed to stand tall. None of us know. It was too close to call. We're watching. We're waiting wherever you are in the world. I hope you're enjoying these images. Top quality drama. They both gave it everything. Was it the Canadians lunge for the line? It usually goes to the athlete who has the momentum. That was Constantine. Knight was coming under all sorts of pressure. The weight goes on. You'll hear the roar. You will now. Narrowest of margins. One second in it. And she doesn't quite believe that she's managed to pull that off. It looked for all the world on top in front of their home crowd. Have you seen a tighter finish to a 4x4 than that? Well, the Canadians got it. They will want to look at that picture, Rob. One one-hundredth of a second. We were talking today about what one one-hundredth of a second represents. And it's millimeters. But the Canadians, I thought you were right. I thought the Canadians had the momentum and they might take it. But you know what Jessie Knight did? She was very smart. And the Poles have specialized in this. You punch forward with one arm and it drags your chest on that side forwards by a few millimeters. And that might have been the difference. That Polish punch towards the line might have gained England the final goal of these games. Catherine Merry, you've been involved in some great 400-meter battles. Can you ever remember a finish like that? Fabulous. A brilliant, brilliant performance from the English team. Uhurugu Williams, Amapipi, a brilliant third leg from her. But Jessie Knight was unbelievable here. She was not going to lose England the Commonwealth title on English soil. She dug deep two, three, four times. Brilliant. The pressure was there. Look at that. She did have the momentum, didn't she? Constantine from Canada. But look at it again. Jessie Knight said, no, no, no, no, no. And dug deep again. And look at that textbook dip that is. As Tim called it, absolutely brilliant. And that's what's got England the gold medal in the final event of the Commonwealth Games athletics program. That was ridiculous. Jessie Knight with what Tim Hutchings is calling the Polish punch. Watch it. Constantine is coming. She's closing eyeballs, bulging, lunging for the line, leaning and believing it will be a glittering gold for Canada. But now Knight somehow finds a way to produce some forward momentum. That was so tight, Tim. And when you think she's a primary school teacher from Surrey, I mean, that is just wonderful, isn't it? You know, this is the sport for every man, every woman. You can do this. There's an event for you. The disciplines of track and field athletics expand a huge umbrella across the entire population. Jessie Knight here looking fabulous, being run down here by the Canadian Kyra Constantine. And at this point, you think Constantine would go past her and win by several inches. But Knight somewhere found another couple of inches in those last couple of strides.