Rai Benjamin in motion as USA win 4x400m relay gold at Paris Olympics 2024.© AFP
Rai Benjamin anchored the United States to victory within the Paris Olympics 2024 males’s 4x400m relay in Paris on Saturday. Benjamin, the winner of the 400m hurdles gold, helped the US quartet additionally that includes Christopher Bailey, Vernon Norwood and Bryce Deadmon to an Olympic file of two minutes and 54.43 seconds. Botswana, with 200m champion Letsile Tebogo on their fourth leg, took silver in an African file of two:54.53, whereas Great Britain claimed bronze in a European file of two:55.83. The US crew’s particular person 400m gold medallist in Paris, Quincy Hall, was not a starter within the relay.
Botswana’s Bayapo Ndori had put the African nation into the lead after the primary leg, Britain then briefly main earlier than Bryce Deadmon delivered an ideal third leg for the Americans.
When the baton was handed to Benjamin, Tebogo was proper on his tail and stayed there proper by way of to the end line. But Tebogo’s shorter dash tempo was not fairly sufficient to outpace the American.
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