2019 PACIFIC GAMES: Men's 4x100 Metre Relay FINAL

Men's 4x100 Metre Relay Final at the 2019 Pacific Games at Apia Park in Samoa - July 19, 2019

[@siregar3739]

I went to high school and ran track with Jeremy Dodson in Denver, Colorado. He was always humble and was a good example to other runners. I'm happy to have known him and that he is still competing at a High level. God bless you all!

[@Kongo-Slade007]

Fijis third runner was the difference he executed his run perfectly,when it seemed they were totally out of it !!!

[@solo6810]

2nd leg for samoa is a weapon

[@jdalex704]

100% bro

[@oteleiosefa3509]

Was that Kelvin ?

[@tuamusicfiji]

Great run team Fiji 🙌🏾 Banuve is a world class athlete 🙂 You are the Pacifics track King 👑

[@georgetelawa2323]

Fiji's second runner was as fast as that samoan runner also..if u pause at 0:53 you'll notice Fiji's 3rd runner has started to take off slowly too...soo Fiji was not actually behind ...they were just not seen on camera... Well gr8 job done by both teams!👏

[@SeymourPettigrew]

3rd Leg for Samoa lost the race... they were winning, but he doesn’t know how to run a curve, he looked like a wobbly tire. That Samoa second leg tho.... boy was smoking!

[@jarrellstephens1867]

Lmao wobbly tire hahaha

[@phuckya4223]

Second leg was hauling ass

[@briansan154]

Totally agree, that turn requires a lot of strength

[@victornwaka3958]

So true @second leg

[@lilmeech4339]

No the coach “lost” the race...

[@adtvandietv]

Wow!! One of the best relays I've ever seen. Real good competition between the top two nations.👍👏👏

[@a2siony-kidox797]

Vinaka team Fiji.... Still the best in the Pacific...

[@deronyoung7908]

It's amazing to see these young kids execute such great baton passes all around. The professionals make more mistakes than they do.

[@sevunadruku1409]

🇫🇯💝vinaka valevu🥇 #its good to see these close finishes here at our Pacific Games! It will surely help our nations, groom more better athletes for the future❤

[@Shelbourner]

It's a wee bit unfair to lay all the blame on the Samoan 3rd leg. Note that at the final change-over, Dodson made a bit of re-adjustment and turned his head. Did he doubt his compatriot's approach speed? Regardless, Dodson lost crucial milliseconds. He then had to make up the stagger for he was outside Tabakaucoro. At that point, the Fijian was already in transition phase. Being the 200m specialist that he is, Dodson might be expected to quickly make up lost ground and run the Fijian down on the home stretch. However, the Fijians had executed their baton exchange milliseconds earlier than the Samoans did. It was simply a matter of keeping form and maintaining speed. The Americans suffered the same fate in the 2017 London World Championships men's 4 x 100m relay final. The US had Coleman (100m silver medallist) on the anchor leg. At the final change-over, it was neck-and-neck between them and the Brits, who had Mitchell-Blake, a 200m specialist. Coleman hesitated a bit, turning his head while receiving the incoming 3rd leg. In contrast, the Brits' exquisite change-overs throughout the entire race meant that Mitchell-Blake, who was outside Coleman, made up the stagger with such fluid ease that it looked effortless. All Mitchell-Blake had to do was keep his form and speed whilst Coleman had to play catch-up all the way through and eventually settle for silver.

[@RegzalTG]

Wdym Coleman lost more ground than he gained MB is known for his rather bad exchanges The brits only got a good exchange because Talbot ran all through and didn't slow down during the exchange Which basically forced MB into getting a good enough exchange

[@jamesqadroka6632]

Dayummm Samoa was Flying 👏👏👏👏... Good one Samoa🙏❤️... Congratulations to Fiji

[@trackman411]

These are very nice & respectable times. The handoffs were good, I hope all of them work on making them even cleaner. In one year they will all be a little faster combine that with cleaner handoffs and it would awesome to see anyone of them in the quarter finals or even the semis in Tokyo.

[@Pihasanddunes1]

What a superb race.

[@sasamokofisi1918]

Look good for Samoa future relay team. One of my favor event in track. Tonga not bad need more training...vinaka Flying Fiji too strong from 3rd to finisher. Very good final from Island Bro.👏❤👍

[@jonyfreston256]

Dont worry brother ....in the future Tonga will make some good runners .......Alofa atu from Samoa🇼🇸🇹🇴

[@dre10blood]

Samoa 2nd Leg closed that gap fast af. He should have been 3rd.

[@danielofoia6487]

Definitely, I was thinking the same thing

[@hassanemile5983]

1:11 look at that speed of those men 🙆🏻‍♀️🙆🏻‍♀️

[@djlilcrizproductions]

yeah only in our region but not Internationally some women's are way faster than those Boys ...lolz

[@MrTugarR]

AWESOME FIJI!!!

[@jefferymatthias7794]

FIDJI .. Awesome....Magnificento....ahhhh !👍👏👑🍻

[@a2siony-kidox797]

Fiji just too Good... Thanks Boys..

[@trackman411]

Thank you for posting

[@stefeno86]

Thanks!

[@user-ie7jn8mc6c]

Wow. So proud of the boys in blue. There is def room for improvement but wow. Goodos on you all. Malō lava 🇼🇸👏🏽#onwardforwardwego

[@IMBATMANANDIMCOOL]

WD Samoan team almost there. Keep training and working hard.

[@markhamilton50]

0:46 samoa looks like a bullet. That second leg was savage!!!!! If the 2nd leg also ran the third leg they probably would have had a better chance.

[@gregorymalone71]

That second leg gone, third leg awfully slow

[@stefeno86]

Samoa's second leg was by Kelvin Masoe who won the Men's High Jump at the 2019 Pacific Games, his first time competing in the event. He just graduated from High School after tearing up all the record books in Samoa Sprinting events.

[@petelosuaniu]

@@stefeno86 long jump. He won the long jump.

[@isimeliradrodro4394]

Faafetai tele lava fiji team, you're the best in the Pacific

[@restlessbeing1398]

Wait...so Dodson lost to banuve 3 timeS??? 😂🤣😂🤣😂

[@ReyBeats]

a 4 x 100 relay is a team event, not an individual event!.. However, our boy Banuve definitely showed his class in the games. TO be precise, he Dodson lost 2 times., in the 100 and 200!

[@epelinabolaniwaqa122]

True but can see Dodson really has potential picking up pace and gaining ground everytime he approaches the finish line. Probably if he did more work on his starting would one of the Pacific greats :)

[@skerhnekia5762]

FSM good job guys even tho y’all #7

[@prestige_123]

3rd leg should of been 1st...I'm sure the other 3 guys would of been fast enough to make up for the bad start

[@paulpowell2321]

I time that second leg runner for Samoa he ran 9.37. Break Usain Bolt world record 9.58

[@lazer8961]

Dang i thought Samoa waz gonna win it. Good job Samoa

[@mrlucky103]

If you watch the first baton changed, you'll see that Vanuatu was the first team to change baton followed by PNG then Fiji, Samoa then all the rest.....so Samoa was beaten right from the first baton changed, so please don't put on the blame for the Samoan third leg runner.....but anyways Fiji all the way.....Toso Viti.....O datou eki 🇫🇯🇫🇯🇫🇯

[@willycagibulakamenio8861]

Woahhhhhh what a race.

[@restlessbeing1398]

We need a Pacific islands athletics team that 3rd runner for Fiji made the difference

[@addisababa1835]

And the 3rd runner for Samoa is a donkey

[@restlessbeing1398]

@@addisababa1835 😂😂😂😂 oi sole

[@addisababa1835]

@@restlessbeing1398 La’u mo’i a Uso, ua ma’imau le kakou lead kelē ga i ai ma le malosi o gai kama ia ga muamua fa’aosoa le kakou fu’a, ae o’o mai i le salakou ula loga kolu sole o le kamela le mea. He made the Fijian 3rd runner look good. Sa’o ai le fa’afafige; malilie ua ka muli o loka fua agavale lea e fula.

[@papatoeaina284]

@@addisababa1835 Sole, o a ga ikuaiga mea e fula le fua ae kamo'e a, ae makua leva ga kapega le au kaaalo i masiga e fia , ae le momoku ifo e ku'u i kokogu o se pusa'aisa, akogu e o'o aku i le aso o le ku'uga ua maui, ia pe momoku ifo e kaofi aku e le coach se'i kigi le ku'uga koe fa'apipi'i

[@johnbainivalu9881]

Too good Fiji🇫🇯🇫🇯🇫🇯

[@waisalebryan503]

🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@anthonyfrank5785]

fiji also won gold yesterday in Saipan pacific min games 2022

[@keolaq6257]

This was entertaining on a local level; But I would like to see more Islanders on a Global Level represent! Look! You can see we have the talent...Fiji already showed up in Rugby...But T&F in sprinting we lack something! I mean Samoa hold the record for the slowest 100M ever ran...Changes need to be made usos

[@David-li2qj]

Yessir

[@benfan77]

Good job FSM

[@caseyhenry514]

The first leg was absolutely flying..kudos to u Benon!.. congrats to yo all who repping us micro nations

[@shashi.shashi.6340]

Good job all islanders yessah

[@thejuanmata343]

First runner from the outside team was the champ of that squad. Everyone else let him down

[@darianwofford]

These dudes was smoking!!!!!!

[@rahmatefendi1329]

Result in the worl 37 s.

[@LuhDeefr]

3rd and 4th leg of the blue team was hawking

[@paulpowell2321]

Even the Tokyo Olympic where Marcel Jacob win Tokyo 100m he's a contrast of a India bold head man in craigieburn Australia we doing the same sprinting training around my area.

[@justinhetiback2875]

Team FSM started out well... taking the lead...only if we had better coaches, resources and most especially time, we would have been a pain in the neck for the other Pacific Nations. Just my point of view.

[@jocelynwivou4372]

WOW CLOSE ONE BLUE AND WHITE VERY VERY CLOSE ONE LOL😮😮😮

[@louisgraham9959]

Get it figi

[@masaajicaa]

🇫🇯🇫🇯🇫🇯🇫🇯🇫🇯

[@user-gg2xh2vc1d]

So fast omg..

[@nancyvenia5447]

1st and especially 2nd leg for Samoa we’re flying then gave it to their 3rd runner with a clear lead fkd it up and the rest is history

[@saulatawake1635]

Fiji all the way

[@danqallo2089]

up Fiji

[@user-tp6bh7hp4w]

제자리에~~ 차렷~~~펑

[@nolkycreggae9681]

Calédonie ????

[@Shelbourner]

Ils étaient occupés😁😁

[@varany95]

Banz still can improve his stride length.

[@chelseaibe3718]

Just out of curiosity! What race are they?

[@kwezimashapa6425]

Human

[@kwezimashapa6425]

@@jonyfreston256 It's just one race with different skin tones

[@jonyfreston256]

@@kwezimashapa6425 yeahhhhh and its called pacific islanders .....

[@chelseaibe3718]

@@jonyfreston256 hahaha ok🤣👍🏾

[@KnewYawkPapi]

@@jonyfreston256 SHUT UP! FIJI ARE BLACK!

[@mjsaky1983]

🇪🇺🔥

[@fsmart9343]

gud job fsm

[@chopzmasta07]

3rd leg should have started the race. 2nd leg should have ran 4th. And the 4th should have gone 2nd.

[@laisianaturaga8271]

VINAKA FIJI....😏🤘🤘🤘

[@user-sq9tq9zn7s]

바람을 가르는거 같네

[@fileminokilicho1292]

7th .... FSM good job ya'll. Get a good trainer next time.

[@paulwhikemoa4008]

Man when fiji and Samoa play rugby they smoke everyone. But the fastest man from the Pacific run 10.something seconds. Fastest 18 from America run 9.98 secs. That very slow for a top sprinter. Yeah the Samoa second leg looks faster than everyone.

[@Shelbourner]

If the fasten men in the Pacific average around 10s, then we are grateful that, at least, they are clean and not tainted by performance-enhancing drugs. On the world stage, however, athletics (and other sports, for that matter) has been and continues to be marred by doping.

[@chopzmasta07]

American student athletes are on performance enhancers from around 16 and on. Plus the have the facilities, budgets and programs to coach highshoolers to run in the low 10's. If Fiji and Samoa create sprinting programs like they have in the USA, Jamaica, and Europe, you'll get extremely quick boys.

[@Shelbourner]

@@chopzmasta07 I quite agree with you. But it pains me to see how tainted sport has become. The more successful a programme becomes, the greater the pressure to perform. Now, whenever I watch the final of an athletics or swimming event etc., the thrill dissipates when I think about how much time remains before the first allegations of doping are whispered, which isn't fair to clean sportspeople.

[@sly4x692]

Confusing camera angles at one time i thought samoa went pass fiji 🤣

[@toxsicxr8ford57]

aso ia lo'u saosaoa le 3 mika, valaau loa le mea ai fiu e kuli a'u

[@silovatenaubi7833]

Vinaka tabakau voro

[@petelosuaniu]

There is no good place to put the 3rd leg runner for Samoa; he is just too slow. Dodson should've run 3rd leg but if you put Masoe as the anchor, there is still a big hole on the back straight (2nd leg). Samoa had one good runner (1st leg), 2 absolute guns (Masoe; Dodson); and one nothing runner. A bit unfair on 3rd-leg runner as I think he is normally a hurdler.

[@user-dr9oh7dh8e]

台灣原住民搞不好更快

[@JohnObedjr-yz4du]

FSM..

[@beastmode8895]

Bruh Samoan 3rd runner slow as my 65 year old uncle lol Jokes shot Fiji, Unlucky USO’s

[@fiamataianesi1932]

cause u can run faster aye

[@fiamataianesi1932]

685

[@obozkm9898]

ม

[@kijanu902]

Kópwong ngonuk bwibwi BEUTEK ME JIEJIOMW JON FSM

[@vealous8361]

4th shouldve been 2nd leg 3rd shouldve been 1st leg And somoa wouldve won