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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.
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.
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 USA men’s 4x100-relay team, marred by botched handoffs in the past, did it again in Paris. ... Gabby Thomas steer U.S. women to gold medal in 4x100 relay. Andre de Grasse anchors Canada to ...
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 dominant team in the sport, winning two consecutive Olympic Gold Medals and four consecutive World Championships.
The men's world record has been broken or equalled at the competition on four occasions. [4] The women's world record has never been broken or equalled at the competition. The United States is the most successful nation in the discipline, with nine men's gold medals and nine women's gold medals. The next most successful nation is Jamaica, which ...
Men's relay settles for disappointing 2nd. In the men's race, the U.S. were favored. They had swept the 100 and 200, and even without 100 gold medal winner Fred Kerley available after he suffered ...
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 ...