Bolt leads Jamaica to 4x100m relay gold with new world records

  2008-08-22 14:24:00 GMT    2008-08-22 22:24:00 (Beijing Time)    Xinhua

  BEIJING, Aug. 22 (Xinhua) -- Two sprint gold medals winner Usain Bolt led Jamaica to the men's 4x100 meters win with a new world record at the Beijing Olympic Games here on Friday.

  Bolt, who broke both the 100m and 200m world records en route to the gold medals, ran the third leg and gave the Jamaicans a big lead before handing the baton to Asafa Powell, the former world 100m record holder. Powell easily anchored the race in 37.10 seconds, breaking the previous mark of 37.40 set by the United States in the 1992 Olympic Games.

  Trinidad and Tobago took the silver in 38.06 seconds and Japan won the bronze in 38.15.