USA successfully defended their title in the women’s 4x100m at the World Athletics Championships Tokyo 25, holding off strong challenges from Jamaica, Germany and Great Britain.
Their quartet of Twanisha Terry, Kayla White, Melissa Jefferson-Wooden and Sha’Carri Richardson got the baton around in 41.75 to finish 0.04 ahead of Jamaica. Germany secured bronze in 41.87, finishing 0.2 ahead of Great Britain.
It meant that Jefferson-Wooden, winner of the 100m and 200m, secured her third gold medal of the championships. The race also marked a significant moment for Jamaica’s multiple world and Olympic champion Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, who earned the final medal of her career before hanging up her spikes at the end of this season.
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