Running a 4X100

Track and Field Relay

Jordan Pedagna, Sabina Staab, and Sammy Kramer
 Language Content

Students will be able to Students will be able to

verbally explain and act out perform a skit to demonstrate
the steps to running a short a short distance relay race in
distance relay race in track track and field.
and field.

WHAT DO YOU ALREADY KNOW ABOUT TRACK AND

FieLD OR RELAY RACES?
 4X400 Relay Race steps

01 02 03
History and Important Vocabulary Before the race/ preparation During the race
 Created in 776 BC in Olympia,
History Greece
Part of the first Olympic Games
Brought to the U.S. in the 1860s
Only became part of the

Olympic Games in 1928 for

women
 Important VOCABulary
4X100 Exchange
Baton Anchor
RelayRace zone
the area on indicated a short stick passed from the final position in
a track event where a on the track where the runner to runner in a a relay race
team of 4 runners each baton must be passed relay race
run one side of the from one runner to the
track next
 Picking order Practicing Hand offs
Handoffs are done in the exchange zone
1st leg- Most aggressive with the baton from one leg to another leg.
runner, good with starting
from blocks
2nd leg- aggressive runner is
able to cut in and get ahead of
crowd
3rd leg- most inexperienced
4th leg- most experienced
runner, finishes the race.
Starting

Finding your "power

leg"
video
 SKIT

Break up into groups of 4

Pretend you are a 4X100 relay race team about to start a race

Decide the order of your runners and explain why

Teach the new runner what they need to do using 2 vocbulary

words
 references
https://www.sanjuan.edu/cms/lib/CA01902727/Centricity/Domain/2962/Histor
yofTrack.pdf

https://seanbernstein.com/4x400