IAAF scraps relay record

The International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) has scrapped the 4x400-metre relay world record set by the United States in 1998 because of Antonio Pettigrew’s admission of doping.



Michael Johnson, Tyree Washington and Jerome Young were also on the team that set the record of 2 minutes, 54.20 seconds in Uniondale, New York on July 22, 1998.



The American team of Andrew Valmon, Quincy Watts, Butch Reynolds and Johnson set the previous world record of two minutes 54.29, at the 1983 world championships in Stuttgart, Germany.



Pettigrew admitted in court in May that he had used performance-enhancing drugs.