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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.
This was also the first ever medal for Team China in an Olympic athletics relay event. The medal reallocation ceremony of the bronze medal was held at the Hangzhou Olympic Sports Centre Stadium on 4 October 2023 after all the events of the Asian Games ended on that day, along with the medal reallocation ceremony of women's 20 km walk of London ...
USA had a tradition of winning the Olympic 4x100. Between 1912 and 2000 the USA had lost the Olympic 4x100 only 5 times out of 20 Olympics. Jamaica won 3 times in a row during the Usain Bolt era, 2008-2016. Italy returns as the defending champion, with only one addition to their relay pool.
Other strong entrants were 2012 Olympic silver medallists Trinidad and Tobago and France, who earned bronze, and the 2015 world runners-up, China. [2] For the third Olympics in a row Usain Bolt had won the 100 metres and 200 metres. In the previous two Olympics the Jamaican team with Bolt had won the gold in the relay.
Former gold medalist Ryan Held swam the first leg of the men's 4x100 swim relay in ... in men's 4x100 relay prelims at Paris Olympics. ... Olympics in Tokyo, Japan due to roster limitations before ...
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.
Chris Guiliano, Jack Alexy, Hunter Armstrong and Caeleb Dressel combined to win gold in the men’s 4x100-meter freestyle relay. Why Team USA’s first gold medal of 2024 Olympics was a full ...
Men's 4x100 Metres Relay Olympic Qualifying Round 2 - Heat Place Athlete Country Time Heat 1: Bayanda Walaza Benjamin Richardson Bradley Botshelo Nkoana Akani Simbine South Africa: 38.08: 3 2: Ibrahim Fuseini Isaac Botsio Benjamin Azamati Joseph Amoah Ghana: 38.29: 2 3: Sebastian Sultana Jacob Despard Calab Law Joshua Azzopardi Australia: 38.46 ...