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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 competition has two parts: a first round and an eight-team final.
The women's 4 x 100 metres relay at the 2024 Summer Olympics was held in two rounds at the Stade de France in Paris, France, on 8 and 9 August 2024.This was the 23rd time that the women's 4 x 100 metres relay was contested at the Summer Olympics.
But an American relay team winning gold is never a given, despite the country’s talent pool. The women were disqualified in 2004 and 2008 before winning in 2012 and 2016, then taking silver to ...
The U.S. women's relay team brought home another gold at the Paris Olympics! Team USA's relay team — Sha'Carri Richardson, Gabby Thomas, Melissa Jefferson and Twanisha Terry — won first place ...
The women's 4 × 100 metres relay event at the 2020 Summer Olympics took place on 5 and 6 August 2021 at the Japan National Stadium. [1] There were 16 competing relay teams, with each team having 5 members from which 4 were selected in each round.
The U.S. took silver — Ledecky’s 13th medal at the Olympics, the most ever won by an American woman. ... On the women’s side, the 4x100 relay team also came up short against Australia ...
The American team had an often repeated history of relay failures, so most of the pre-race discussion focused on whether it could successfully get the baton around the track. At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, both the men's and women's 4 × 100 metres teams had dropped the baton, leading one reporter to call it the "nadir in US relay ...
Carl Lewis ran the anchor leg on U.S. relay teams that set six world records from 1983 to 1992, including the first team to break 38 seconds. The current men's world record stands at 36.84, set by the Jamaican team at the final of the 2012 London Olympic Games on 11 August 2012. As the only team to break 37 seconds to date, Jamaica has been the ...