The IOC formally authorised the occasion programme for the subsequent version of the Video games at the moment
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 authorised the complete sports activities programme for the subsequent Olympics at the moment (April 9), has adopted World Athletics in introducing the occasion to main competitions.
World Athletics has already said that the combined 4x100m can be integrated into each the 2025 World Athletics Relays in Guangzhou and subsequent 12 months’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 can be lady, lady, man, man however that can up for evaluate after the upcoming World Athletics Relays.
Data for the combined 4x100m can be recognised as of January 1, 2026.
Eventually 12 months’s Olympics in Paris, the USA took gold within the girls’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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