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The 4 × 100 metres relay at the Summer Olympics is the shortest track relay event held at the multi-sport event. The men's relay has been present on the Olympic athletics programme since 1912 and the women's event has been continuously held since the 1928 Olympic Games in Amsterdam. It is the most prestigious 4×100 m relay race at elite level.
The post Watch: Team USA Sets Men’s 4x100m Relay World Record To Win Gold appeared first on The Spun. The four-person team didn’t just win gold, though – it broke a world record.
It was the ninth world title in the event for the U.S. on both the men's and women's side. Lyles is the first man since Usain Bolt in 2015 to win gold in the 100, 200 and 4x100 at the same worlds.
If on the European continent the metric system is the one almost exclusively used (4 × 100 metres, or a lap of 400 m), where the imperial system is still used (UK, USA and Australia, mainly) this relay was rather ran over the distance of 4 × 110 yards, a total of 402.34 m, and that, until the late 1960s.
The U.S. men's 4x100-meter relay team had their eyes on the prize — but after the sudden departure of teammate Noah Lyles, couldn't bring it together to pull off the win. ... Men's 4x100m Final ...
4 × 200 m relay: 1:18.68 Michael Marsh Leroy Burrell Floyd Heard Carl Lewis: Santa Monica Track Club: April 17, 1994 Mt. SAC Relays: Walnut, United States Sprint medley relay (2,2,4,8) 3:10.76 Carl Lewis Ferran Tyler Benny Hollis Johnny Gray: Santa Monica Track Club: April 6, 1985 Tempe, United States 4 × 800 m relay: 7:02.82 Jebreh Harris 1: ...
Dover High School graduate Hunter Armstrong competed in his first Olympic final and he delivered, winning gold on Team USA's 4x-100 free relay.
This also gave him the distinction of being the first man in history to complete the Triple-Triple (winning the 100 metres, 200 metres and 4 × 100 metres relay, in 3 successive Olympics). His accomplishment was later mooted by the doping disqualification of his teammate in 2008, Nesta Carter , reported in January 2017.