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The women were disqualified in 2004 and 2008 before winning in 2012 and 2016, then taking silver to Jamaica in 2021. Powered by Richardson, who was seeking her first Olympic gold medal, they ...
The women's 5,000 meters saw Ethiopia's Gudaf Tsegay claim gold (14:46.29) after running to the silver medal in the 1500 on Monday night. And the men's 800 meters was won by Kenya's Emmanuel Korir ...
Team USA's relay team — Sha'Carri Richardson, Gabby Thomas, Melissa Jefferson and Twanisha Terry — won first place in the women's 4x100-meter relay final on Friday, Aug. 9 at Stade de France ...
The first world record in the women's 4 x 100 metres relay was recognised by the International Association of Athletics Federations in 1922. [1] 45 world records have been ratified by the IAAF in the event. The following table shows the world record progression in the women's 4 × 100 metre relay, as ratified by the IAAF. "y" denotes time for 4 ...
It was then improved at six successive Olympics from 1952 to 1972. The women's world record at the 2012 Olympic Games ended the forty-year absence of such a feat. [1] The United States is by far the most successful nation in the event. The country has won the men's race 15 times and the women's race on 12 occasions.
The championship records for the event are 37.04 seconds for men, set by Jamaica in 2011, and 41.03 seconds for women, set by the United States in 2023. [3] The men's world record has been broken or equalled at the competition on four occasions. [ 4 ]
Richardson and the rest of Team USA’s 4x100 women’s relay team triumphed on Friday night, bringing home gold. ... Team USA finished nearly a second slower than the Olympic and world record of ...
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.