The IOC formally authorized the occasion programme for the following version of the Video games immediately
The combined 4x100m relay will make its Olympic debut on the LA 2028 Video games, offering nations an additional alternative for a gold medal in athletics.
The IOC, who authorized your complete sports activities programme for the following Olympics immediately (April 9), has adopted World Athletics in introducing the occasion to main competitions.
World Athletics has already said that the combined 4x100m might be integrated into each the 2025 World Athletics Relays in Guangzhou and subsequent yr’s inaugural Final Championships in Budapest.
Gold for Canada (Getty)
The worldwide governing physique additionally introduced final month that the format for the brand new occasion might be lady, lady, man, man however that can up for overview after the upcoming World Athletics Relays.
Information for the combined 4x100m might be recognised as of January 1, 2026.
Eventually yr’s Olympics in Paris, the USA took gold within the ladies’s 4x100m with Nice Britain and Germany securing silver and bronze respectively.
Within the males’s race, Canada claimed the Olympic title with South Africa and Nice Britain making up the rostrum.
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