Sentences with phrase «anchor leg»

Lemza added her 100 free and anchor leg of the 200 free were the loudest, most competitive races she has been apart of all season.

You'll anchor your legs in and then use your core to hold your upper body in mid air.

Perri Shakes - Drayton ran a memorably tenacious anchor leg to beat USA's Sanya Richards - Ross when GB won that world crown in 2012.

Remember, the name of the game in this exploration is to anchor the legs while revolving the spine and torso in the opposite direction; on this side, that will maximize the stretch in the left side of the body.

Australia's women retained their Olympic title by winning the 4x100m freestyle relay in world record time, with sisters Bronte and Cate Campbell swimming the last two stages to overhaul the United States, despite the efforts of Katie Ledecky on the anchor leg.

The race was tight when Bolt, running the anchor leg, grabbed the baton: the stadium erupted as Bolt exploded ahead of the field to win the third straight gold in the event for the Jamaicans.

Nadine started the day by taking the 100m, 200m and 400m titles, but the moment of the match was her anchor leg in the 4x400m relay, where she caught and overtook the Cambridge athlete in the final metres of the last race of the day, bringing the match victory back to Oxford for the first time in four years.

Versatile Southern, who flew up from Dallas after beating Bobby Morrow in 220 in 20.6, spread his wings in 440, tore off 44.6 anchor leg to haul teammates Wally Wilson, Drew Dunlap and Jimmy Holt to new college mile relay record of 3:09.1, bettering 17 - year - old mark held by California (April 19).

He could've run the anchor leg, the historical prerogative of the gold medalist in the 400, but he turned it down.

It was sparked by a U.S. loss in the 1991 world championships when Great Britain's 400 - meter hurdler Kriss Akabusi overhauled world 400 champion Antonio Pettigrew in the stretch of the anchor leg.

As Marc Courtney - Brooks touched the wall well ahead of the field on the anchor leg of the season - ending 400 - yard freestyle relay, his coach, the irrepressible Jim Steen, bear - hugged his swimmers and acknowledged the boisterous cheers emanating from the purple - clad Kenyon College section at the St. Peters Rec - Plex in St. Louis.

Chenault won four first - place medals that day, set NCS records in each of her individuals events — which included breaking a 17 - year old mark in the 500 - yard freestyle — and swam the anchor leg on a national - record swim by the Cougars» 200 medley relay team.

Long jumper Lorraine Ugen then resisted the charge of Jamaica's double Olympic champion Elaine Thompson on the anchor leg to take gold alongside teammates Asha Philip, Dina Asher - Smith and Bianca Williams.

Jarvis told me she knocked out a Hox gene called Abd - B in this one — the embryo will grow jumping legs where it should have swimming legs, and forward walking legs instead of anchor legs.

The one that leans backwards and that you can anchor your legs to the front of it.

Tomorrow, we'll hear from Smarter Balanced, and Wednesday's anchor leg will be run by the United States Department of Education.

To help commemorate the race's 50th anniversary, the Baja Ridgeline Concept truck will have a special red metal flake livery, and 11 - time Baja 1000 Honda motorcycle racer, Johnny Campbell, will take the wheel for the anchor leg of the race.