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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.
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 U.S. women’s 4x100-meter relay survived another shaky handoff to win the gold medal at the Paris Olympics on Friday, powered by a devastating anchor leg by Sha’Carri Richardson.
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 ...
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 ...
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.
During the second heat the United States missed their second handover which was caused by Kauiza Venancio of the Brazilian team bumping Allyson Felix as she approached the handoff to English Gardner. The American appeal was upheld, and they were given a second chance to qualify for the final, [ 3 ] which the United States team accomplished with ...
The women's 4 × 100 metres relay event at the 1936 Olympic Games took place on August 8 and August 9. [1] The American team won with a time of 46.9 s after the German team, which had been in the lead, dropped the baton on the final leg.