Swedish relay

Swedish relay (uncountable)

1. A relay race in which members of a team take turns running progressively longer parts of a course. The first member runs 100 meters, the second 200 meters, the third 300 meters, and the fourth 400 meters, equalling one kilometer in total.
   • 1925 October 7, The Christian Science Monitor‎^[1], volume 17, number 265, Boston: The Christian Science Publishing Society, via Internet Archive, The World's Great Capitals: The Week in Berlin, page 16:

     The only consolation for the Germans was the so-called Swedish relay race, which they won against the team of the Illinois Athletic Club, which arrived as third.

   • 2001, Wayne Wilson, “Gunde Svan”, in Great Athletes‎^[2], Salem Press, via EBSCOhost, →ISBN, →OCLC:

     In the years that followed, Gunde [Svan] and [Thomas] Wassberg won several world championship and Olympic medals skiing together on the Swedish relay team.

   • 2024 [2020], Kashikaze, translated by Diana Taylor, edited by Tomoko Nagano and Alanna Ruse, I Can't Say No to the Lonely Girl, volume 2, Kodansha, translation of ロンリーガールに逆らえない [Ronrī Gāru ni Sakaraenai] (in Japanese), →ISBN, page 130:

     And now for the results of the first-year girls' Swedish relay...

     [original: 只今(ただいま)の１年生(いちねんせい)女子(じょし)スウェーデンリレーの結果(けっか)…]

     Tadaima no ichinensei joshi Suwēden rirē no kekka...