4 × 1500 m relay, women

What to remember

Portland, July 31, 2020: the meet was the Bowerman Track Club Intrasquad IV. There, Colleen Quigley, Elise Cranny, Karissa Schweizer and Shelby Houlihan ran the 4 × 1500 m relay in 16 min 27.02 s, an average of 21.884 km/h.

Each runner covers 3.75 laps of a standard 400 m track. The event is not part of the Olympics or the World Championships, but World Athletics ratifies its world records. On the men's side, a Kenyan team ran 14:22.22 at the 2014 World Relays in Nassau.

Colleen Quigley, from St. Louis, Missouri, is a steeplechase specialist. She finished 8th at the 2016 Rio Olympics and 12th at the 2015 World Championships in Beijing, the same year she won the NCAA 3000 m steeplechase title. In 2019 she won the US indoor mile title in 4:29.47.