EDMONTON – Three-time Olympic gold medalist Marion Jones and World Championships 100m silver medalist Tim Montgomery will lead the women’s and men’s Team USA 4x100m relay pools at the 2001 World Outdoor Championships. Team USA head coaches J.J. Clark and Orin Richburg announced the pools Tuesday.

Any athlete on the U.S. team may be added to the pool this week. First-round lineups will be announced Thursday, with the lineups for the final announced Saturday.

Joining Jones as leaders in the women’s pool are 1996 Olympic relay gold medalists Inger Miller and Chryste Gaines. Also in the pool are 2000 Olympic relay bronze medalist Torri Edwards, three-time NCAA 100m champion Angela Williams, sub-11.00 sprinter Kelli White and U.S. championships 6th-place 100m finisher and NCAA 200m champion Brianna Glenn.

“We’re very pleased to have our country’s strongest sprinters in the relay pool,” Clark said. “We have worked on several combinations in practice. The next step is to determine which combination will work best to bring us the gold medal.”

Four Olympic relay gold medalists are in the men’s pool. Joining Montgomery - a 2000 Olympic relay gold medalist - in the men’s pool are Sydney Olympic relay gold medalist Jon Drummond, Olympic relay gold medalist and Worlds 100m bronze medalist Bernard Williams, 1992 Olympic relay gold medalist Dennis Mitchell, U.S. 7th-place finisher J.J. Johnson, 8th-place finisher Jonathan Carter and U.S. Championships semifinalist Mickey Grimes.

Recovering from a strained quadriceps muscle sustained in Sunday’s 100m final, Maurice Greene will not compete in the relay or in the 200m in Edmonton.

“Even without Maurice, we have a great group of athletes to come out and do what we’re hoping to do, and that is win the relay,” Richburg said. The current men’s 4x400m relay pool, as announced July 18, is Antonio Pettigrew, Angelo Taylor, Leonard Byrd, Jerome Young, Derrick Brew, Andrew Pierce, Thomas Gerding and Geno White.

The women’s relay pool, also announced last month, is Jearl Miles-Clark, Monique Hennagan, Michelle Collins, Demetria Washington, Miki Barber, Me’Lisa Berber, and Suziann Reid.