Jamaica wins gold again »

Jamaica's men's 4x100 m relay team has won gold in the relays at the World Championships in Berlin, Germany.

Trinidad and Tobago was second to win the silver while Great Britian was third.

The Jamaican team of Steve Mullings, Michael Frater, Usain Bolt and Asafa Powell ran a good race with quite smooth baton changes and won the race in 37.31 seconds

This is Jamaica's second medal in the 100m relays after the women's team took the gold in the same event earlier today.

Tomorrow Jamaica will contest its last race for a medal at the championships in the women's 4x400m relay. The team of Kaliese Spencer, Sheerefa Lloyd, Rosemarie Whyte and Novlene Williams-Mills came second in their to advance to the finals. Jamaica ran the second fastest qualification time of 3:24.72.

 

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