The Jamaican team in the Women’s 4x100m Final at the World Championships in Moscow not only took gold, but also set a new championship record of 41.29.
Carrie Russell, Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, Schillonie Calvert and Nickiesha Wilson posed next to their record time on the clock at the Luzhniki Stadium on August 18, 2013.
The team took the title on Day Nine of the 14th IAAF World Athletics Championships Moscow 2013.
Results
COUNTRY
TIME
1
Jamaica
41.29
CR
2
United States
42.75
3
Great Britain & N.I.
42.87
4
Germany
42.9
5
Russia
42.93
SB
6
Canada
43.28
France
DQ R170.7
Brazil
DNF
In This Story: 100 metres
The current world record for the 100m sprint is 9.58 held by Jamaican runner Usain Bolt. The record was set in Berlin on 16th August 2009.
Jamaica, a Caribbean island nation, has a lush topography of mountains, rainforests and reef-lined beaches. Many of its all-inclusive resorts are clustered in Montego Bay, with its British-colonial architecture, and Negril, known for its diving and snorkeling sites. Jamaica is famed as the birthplace of reggae music, and its capital Kingston is home to the Bob Marley Museum, dedicated to the famous singer.
Moscow, on the Moskva River in western Russia, is the nation’s cosmopolitan capital. In its historic core is the Kremlin, a complex that’s home to the president and tsarist treasures in the Armoury. Outside its walls is Red Square, Russia’s symbolic center. It’s home to Lenin’s Mausoleum, the State Historical Museum’s comprehensive collection and St. Basil’s Cathedral, known for its colorful, onion-shaped domes.
Russia, or the Russian Federation, is a transcontinental country located in Eastern Europe and Northern Asia. It extends from the Baltic Sea in the west to the Pacific Ocean in the east, and from the Arctic Ocean in the north to the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea in the south.
Russia spans more than one-eighth of the Earth’s inhabited land area, stretching eleven time zones, and bordering 16 sovereign nations. Moscow is the country’s capital.
The Soviet Union was dissolved in 1991 and since 1993 Russia been governed as a federal semi-presidential republic. Russia is a major great power, with the world’s second-most powerful military, and the fourth-highest military expenditure. As a recognised nuclear-weapon state, the country possesses the world’s largest stockpile of nuclear weapons.
