Sentence examples for anchor runner from inspiring English sources

It's like watching a runner who's been pacing himself begin to make a dash for the finish line, or a relay team pass the baton to the anchor runner.

After that race, the French anchor runner, Jocelyn Delecour, turned to Paul Drayton, who had run the leadoff leg for the United States, and said bitterly, "You haven't got anything except Hayes".

It was in prime position for another gold medal when Michelle Collins finished her third leg with a 5-meter lead on the field and passed off cleanly to the anchor runner, Suziann Reid.

In another display of her versatility, Livingston ran a third leg of 55.2 seconds in the 1,600-meter 1,600-metering the anchorelayner, Meisue Francis (56.4 seconds), in puttingn thewin the event in 3:55.11.

Jamaica won the women's 4x100 meters in 42.96 seconds and would have won the 4x200, too, if Tayna Lawrence, the anchor runner, had not fallen 10 feet short of the finish.

The 20-year-old was determined to prove firstly his fitness and then show he deserved his place on the relay team, doing so with a storming finish to the third leg to give anchor runner Martyn Rooney a narrow lead.

The British quartet were disqualified when the anchor leg runner Adam Gemili set off too early as he was about to take the baton from Danny Talbot.

Britain's women's 4x400m team had earlier almost snatched yet another gold as anchor leg runner Margaret Adeoye chased down Ukraine and Russia, only for France's Floria Guei to run a brilliant sub-50 second leg to pip them all at the line and leave Adeoye and her team-mates with bronze.

But the British quartet had their medals taken away as a consequence of anchor-leg runner Chambers testing positive for a banned substance six months later.

Darren Campbell, who had his 2003 World Championship 4x100m relay medal taken away - along with Christian Malcolm and Marlon Devonish - after anchor-leg runner Chambers tested positive six months later for the steroid THG, believes the rules were too inconsistent.

But Seton Hall settled for second in the 3,200 relay, as Georgetown's runner on the anchor leg, Ezra Richards, passed Brooks in the final 50 meters.