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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.
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.
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. The U.S. ran without Noah Lyles, who has COVID.
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.
At the 2008 Olympics, the U.S. was cruising toward a spot in the 4x100 final when Darvis Patton bore down on Tyson Gay for the last changeover, and a mix-up sent the baton tumbling to the rain ...
The first world record in the 4 x 100 metres relay for men was recognized by the International Amateur Athletics Federation, now known as World Athletics, in 1912. To June 21, 2009, the IAAF has ratified 35 world records in the event.
It was a stark contrast to the men's 4x100 relay, run just 17 minutes later, where the Team USA men botched a handoff en route to a disqualification and yet another Olympics without a relay medal.