The United States defended their title in the women’s 4×400-meter relay.
The team of Shamier Little, Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone, Gabby Thomas and Alexis Holmes blew out the field to win gold and close a wildly successful track and field competition in Paris for Team USA.
Little closed down the Jamaican team during the first leg before handing off to McLaughlin-Levrone, who almost immediately jumped into a decisive lead.
The United States’ women 4×400-meter relay team celebrates winning the gold medal at the 2024 Summer Olympics. APThe native of New Brunswick, N.J. and 400-meter hurdle champion ran a 47.8-second split, relegating the rest of the field into a race for second.
When Holmes crossed the line after 3:15.27, she did so over four seconds ahead of the second-place Netherlands.
The time set an American record at the relay, breaking a time that had stood since the 1988 Seoul Olympics.
It was the 34th medal for the Americans and the 14th gold, both of which more than doubled any other country in the field.
