00:00This event is unpredictable at the best of times but these conditions, if you think you're trying
00:06to sprint as fast as you can, place a metal baton in the hand of someone else and then you throw in
00:12some rain? Madness. France will go on the outside, perhaps they'll have a bit more shelter.
00:18We'll go to Sarah Richard, Helen Palaseau and Jemima Joseph Palaseau, absolutely drenched there.
00:25Germany, the bronze medalist for the Olympics last year. Sina Meyer will lead the mark, Rebecca Haas
00:33in second, Sofia Jonk third and Gina Lueckenkemper, it's a strong closer, will be on the fourth egg,
00:41there she is, look great in qualification. Spain will be led off by Caldera and they'll go to
00:48Bestui Palaseau and there will be Isabel Pered. There she is finally, perhaps seeing the fun side
00:57of a relay in the rain. Shelley Anne Fraser-Price will be the lead off runner here for the Jamaicans.
01:04She'll pass to Tia Clayton, then to Tina Clayton, the silver medalist in the individual event.
01:10Joanneal Smith will be the anchor leg athlete for Jamaica. United States field Melissa Jefferson
01:18Wooden, the champion in the one and the two, handing over to her training partner, to Anisha Terry.
01:24Kayla White going third and then Sha'Carri Richardson, so many strong anchors for the US team,
01:31could she do that again here in Tokyo. Dina Asher-Smith will hand over to the silver medalist
01:36from the 200 meters, Amy Hunt, and then pass over to Desiree Henry and Daryl Nita. Similar to Toboko
01:45in the 4x4, Nita would love to lead this championship with a medal, as would Dina Asher-Smith.
01:50Poland will have Nemczyk, to Strzysztofska, to Tymansowska and Svoboda.
01:58Canada, Shade McCree to lead them off. Jacqueline Madogo, Maria Louise Leclerc and then the national
02:12record holder over 100 and 200, Audrey Leduc.
02:15I think we should, I hope, well, I think we should see safe changeovers here. Just a few teams
02:27dialing it back over so slightly. I'd look to the Germans to make a smart call here. That's very much
02:33their trademark when they go into relays. I don't know, perhaps if you look at the likes of the British
02:40team, if they want to get on the podium here, they're going to have to stretch all the way to
02:43the end of those changeover zones. But that's such a gamble in these conditions.
02:50I think the best outcome here is eight teams making it round with the baton.
02:54And then we start to dream of Melissa Jefferson Wooden doing the treble.
02:58Shelley-Ann Fraser-Price getting yet another global medal.
03:08And no problem here in the women's 4x100 meters.
03:12The big teams. Britain in four. The States in five. Jamaica in six. First changeover. Here we go.
03:17How are these conditions affecting the athletes? Safe, I think, from all the teams. What discipline
03:23from these women. The rain driving in their face. That will be obscuring their vision. Here we go
03:28for the second changeover. It's good for the Americans. It's good for the Jamaicans. The Spanish are
03:32going well as well. Germany, the bronze medalist from the Olympics. Moving well in lane eight. Final
03:38changeover. Safe for the Americans. Sha'Carri Richardson goes. Jamaica are good. Down on these
03:42are chasing for Britain. Gina Lukenheffer for Germany. Trying to get them on the podium. Sha'Carri Richardson
03:48under pressure here. It is going to be a gold for the United States. Sha'Carri Richardson in what has been a
03:56tumultuous year for her on and off the track. She was great here. Competing in that 100, making the
04:02final. And it's great to see her pick up a medal. Lukenheffer, just the MVP, the joker for the Germans.
04:10So strong on the final leg. She keeps the British off the podium. But Jamaica, they so nearly did it.
04:17They came within four hundredths of spoiling the American party. But for Melissa Jefferson Wooden,
04:24gold in the 100, the 200, and now completing the treble. Gold in the four by 100 as well. Only
04:31Shellyann Fraser-Price has ever done that before. And Melissa Jefferson Wooden would have known to
04:39match what this woman has done would have been phenomenal. But in doing so, she had to deny
04:43Shellyann Fraser-Price another world title. But Fraser-Price will be on the podium in her very
04:50last race of her career. In the same event with the same colour medal. Silver in 07 started it all
04:58right here in Japan, but in Osaka. And Silver in Tokyo finishes it all as well. Without question,
05:07one of, if not the most consistent, the greatest 100 meter runner the world has ever seen. And
05:13I think Usain Bolt would even agree because of her longevity. Great embrace there. There's so much
05:20respect for this woman. Her achievements and personality will never ever be forgotten. But
05:26all credit to the United States. It has been a tough year for Richardson. She hung on.
05:33Great work by the Jamaicans, the Clayton twins. And Luckenkemper was the star of that last leg. When we
05:42get to see that again, Daryl Nita was in the mix for a medal for Great Britain. But Luckenkemper was
05:49finishing like a steam train, just as she did in the semi-finals to get Germany into that showdown.
05:58It was a truly magnificent anchor leg from out in lane eight. The Spanish were in contention around
06:05the second bend, but Luckenkemper blew them away. So two to three.
06:14And then, so watch the Germans starting to get into the mix here. But look how much ground Luckenkemper
06:22second from the left makes up. Richardson is away. And now Luckenkemper, she was even closing on the
06:30Jamaican. That was an incredible last leg from the German. No wonder they're over the moon with the
06:35bronze. But I think that's a a little release of steam there for Sha'Carri Richardson. She was the
06:41star of the show in Budapest. She wasn't expected to be here, but she produced the season's best.
06:48And she's played a part in a race where Shellyann Fraser-Price says goodbye with a silver. And that's
06:54the moment Luckenkemper and her teammates knew they'd taken a global bronze.
07:01As always, fantastic discipline from the German women. And looking back at that changeover though,
07:07I don't think it was that great between Tina Clayton and Janelle Smith for third and fourth
07:11leg runners for Jamaica. Smith just had to rein it in ever so slightly to stay in the changeover zone.
07:17And when you look at the margin of victory, it was so tight there at the end, just four hundredths.
07:23That last changeover might have cost the Jamaicans, but that's the name of the game.
07:27Got to get the baton round as quickly as possible. And the Americans really, really well drilled there.
07:33And Shellyann Fraser-Price in what will be her last appearance here at World Championships.
07:49We think. Dalila Mohamed indicated she might reverse her decision to retire actually in the last few days.
07:56The result of the women's 4x100, United States 41.75, Jamaica 41.79 and Germany 41.87.
08:05That's the gold, silver and bronze for the penultimate track race here in Tokyo.
