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[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 × 110 yards (402.34 m), ratified as a record for this event.
The women's 4 × 100 metres relay competition at the 2012 Olympic Games in London took place on 9–10 August at the Olympic Stadium. [1] The victorious United States team broke the world record by over half a second. The previous record had been set 27 years previously by East Germany. [2]
The women's world record has been similarly linked to the Olympics: the record was broken on the first three occasions it was contested as an Olympic event (1928 to 1936). 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]
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 ...
Simone Manuel anchored the U.S. women's 4x100 meters medley relay team to victory on Saturday for her second gold medal of the Rio Olympics.
The American quartet last won gold in the 2016 Olympics. ... 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 ...
The men's and women's 4x100 medal races were held at the World Athletics Championships, and neither favorite won gold, instead taking silver. ... The United States' silver-medal winning time was ...
The British team claimed their national record. USA ran the second fastest time in history (only behind their own world record four years earlier). Jamaica ran the fifth fastest time in history. [4] The following evening the medals were presented by Adam Pengilly, IOC member, Great Brittan and Víctor López, Council Member of the IAAF.