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The 4 × 800 meters relay is an athletics track event in which teams comprise four runners who each complete 800 meters or 2 laps on a standard 400 meter track.
While not a World Championship or Olympic event, the IAAF does ratify world records in the event. The men's world record is 7:02.43 by a Kenyan team of Joseph Mutua , William Yiampoy , Ismael Kombich and Wilfred Bungei , set August 25, 2006 at the Memorial Van Damme meet in Brussels, Belgium . The women's world record is 7:50.17, set by a team representing the Soviet Union , Nadezhda Olizarenko , Lyubov Gurina , Lyudmila Borisova and Irina Podyalovskaya on August 15, 1984 in Moscow .[ 1]
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